Otar Iosseliani (Georgian "ოთარ იოსელიანი"; born February 2 1934 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian-French film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the USSR, inducing Ioseliani to migrate to France in 1982. Iosseliani's first full-length motion picture, "November" (1966) ("Giorgobistve"), won a FIPRESCI-prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His film "Pastorale", after it was finished in 1976, was not released, … Wikipedia
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Retrospective at the 49th Donostia-San Sebastián Film Festival. [2001] Retrospective at the 5th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema. [2003] President of the jury at the entrance examination of La Fémis (France's national film school) www.imdb.com/name/nm0409646/
