Nana Ekvtimishvili

Nana Ekvtimishvili studied philosophy at the Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi.

After writing prose and screenplays, in 2011 she directed the short film Deda / Waiting for Mum.

In 2012, with Simon Groß, she completed her first feature film, In Bloom (გრძელი ნათელი დღეები, Grdzeli Nateli Dgheebi).

It also won numerous awards at other international film festivals, including in Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, Los Angeles and Sarajevo, and is an Oscar entry for 2014 for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film from Georgia.

At the Berlin International Film Festival in 2013, In Bloom was referred to as the birth of the new Georgian wave.