SYNOPSIS
Prisoner of Society is an intimate journey into the world and mind of a young transgender woman, trapped between her personal desire for freedom and traditional expectations of her parents that threatens their unity.
AWARDS
(the first Georgian short documentary nominated for European Film Academy, won numerous OSCAR® qualifying awards & Selected at more than 100 film festivals)
European Film Academy Award Nominee 2018
Top Five Shorts of 2018
Short of the Year 2018 shorlisted Clermont-Ferrand ISFF, Short Film Conference
Tampere Film Festival – Best European Short Film Qualified for the Oscars®
Odense International Film Festival – Documentary Grand Prix (Oscar® qualifying)
Leeds International Film Festival – Special Mention
Independent Days International Filmfestival – Best Short
Cyprus International Short Film Festival – Best Documentary
Tofifest Film Festival – Special Mention
NDU International Film Festival – Best Documentary
SEMINCI Valladolid International Film Festival – Special Mention
Sehsuechte International Film Festival – Best Documentary
SIMA AWARDS Social Impact Media Awards – Special Mention
FESTIVALS
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Atlanta Film Festival
Krakow Film Festival
Uruguay International Film Festival
PÖFF Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
Galway Film Fleadh
Cork Film Festival
Film Fest Gent
Jerusalem Film Festival
International Cinematographers' Film Festival MANAKI BROTHERS
Movies that Matter Festival
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Encounters Film Festival
Tirana International Film Festival
goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Rome Independent Film Festival
Rio de Janeiro International Short Film Festival
Go Short - International Short Film Festival Nijmegen
FLiCKERFEST International Short Film Festival
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
Zubroffka International Short Film
Riga International Short Film Festival 2ANNAS
Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy
Leuven International Short Film Festival
BOGOSHORTS Bogota Short film Festival
Vilnius International Film Festival “Kino pavasaris”
Riga International Film Festival
Seville European Film Festival
interfilm – International Short Film Festival Berlin
Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim
Glasgow Short Film Festival
Short Waves Festival, Poznań
Festival del Cinema Europeo, Lecce
Kyiv International Short Film Festival
Brussels Short Film Festival
Curtas Vila do Conde – International Short Film Festival
Tabor Film Festival
International Short Film Festival in Drama
IN THE PALACE – International Short Film Festival
Flickers Rhode Island International Film Festival
International Documentary Film Festival OFF CINEMA West Lake International Documentary Festival
Szczecin European Film Festival
International Short Film Festival - Film Front
Braunschweig International Film Festival
ALCINE Festival Internacional de Cine
Panorama Coisa De Cinema
KFFK / Kurzfilmfestival Köln
Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg
Wicked Queer: The Boston LGBT Film Festival
TQU Short Film Nights
Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival
La Fête du Slip
Glasgow Film Festival
ART AWARD Lichter Filmfest International
Queer Lisboa | International Queer Film Festival
qFLIX Philadelphia
Muestra Internacional de Cine LGBT
Festival Politica
FIDÉ International Festival of Emergent Documentary
SEEfest | South East European Film Festival Los Angeles
PROUD! Filmfestival
River Film Festival
Invisible Film Festival Salaam Cinema Baku QUEER Filmfest Weiterstadt, QueerScope
KASHISH Mumbai International Queer Film Festival
North Jersey Human Rights Film Festival
Concorto Film Festival
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
The Norwegian Short Film Festival Kortfilmfestivalen
Valletta Film Festival
CREW
- A film by Rati Tsiteladze
- Director, Cinematographer, Editor, Sound: Rati Tsiteladze
- Featuring: Adelina (Anonymous)
- Producers: Olga Slusareva, Rati Tsiteladze
- Music: Credo Chamber Choir of Kiev, Bogdan Plish
- Production Company: ArtWay Film, Georgia
GALLERY