The 14th Tbilisi International Film Festival was held this year from 02-08 December in Georgia. Founded in 2000, the Festival has been always aiming to introduce Georgian public with new works of high artistic value made in Georgia proper and worldwide, inform it about new trends in the world cinema and support development of Georgian cinema industry.

On Sunday, December 8th, the 14th Tiblisi International Film Festival awarded the winning films at the festival΄s closing ceremony.

The Silver Prometheus for Best Direction went to the Turkish director Erdem Tepegöz, for his film The Particle.

In total, six Balkan films were presented in three different categories. The Turkish-Ukraine co-production Love me by Maryna Er Gorbach and Mehmet Bahadır Er, the Greek September by Penny Panagiotopoulou and the Turkish film The Particle by Erdem Tepegoz participated in the International Competition, while Child΄s Pose by Calin Peter Netzer from Romania and The Priest΄s Children by Vinko Bresan from Croatia screened in the European Forum Panorama. The Romanian-Modovian co-production The Unsaved by Igor Cobileanski took part in Films Across Borders section.

During the 14th Tbilisi International Film Festival a lot of meetings of professionals in cinema community, workshops, master classes, retrospectives and other industrial events took place in order to give motivation to young cinematographers and encourage them to develop talent and artistic vision.