photo (c) Michael Chauvistré: And the winners at Mestia International Short and Mountain Film Festival are from left to right: director John Shehata from Egypt, Turkish producer Gulda Sahin, Turkish director Muge Manus, myself, festival director Khatuna Khundadze, Egyptian DOP Kareem Agamy and Indian director Abhimanyu Kanodia.

Image by Michael Chauvistré: Kanodia, Chauvistre and Manus on the summit

From Georgia won Revaz Nasidze with the short film "Tragedy without a hero". Known in his homecountry as an actor this is his debut film and it will be not the last one. More will follow after the world premiere and success in Mestia. Nasidze was awarded not one but two awards, the main prize Grand Prix by the international jury and in addition to this the award sponsered by the Georgian Public Broadcaster.

His short film will be then broadcasted on national television, a great achievement. The impressive color grading was done in Santa Monica by Company 3, an award winning post-production company, he was explaining me at our interview which took place at the Hikers Inn, where the hikers meet before ascending the legendary mountain Ushba. 

Best mountain film was "Sophie Lavaud The final summit". An impressive film which has traveled many festivals, it was also screened at Alpin Film Festival in Brasov.

Best short film "Jolanda walks alone" came from Colombia.

The Jury special prize went ex equal to "Gulls above Golgotha" from Armenia and to the Egyptian short film "At the end of the day"

A further prize went to the Georgian actor Avtandil Makharadze for his performance in the short film "All left".

The jury gave two special mentions. A special mention for a mountain film went to "Paydos" by Muge Manus while another special mention for a short film to the Indian film "The last break" by Abhimanyu Kanodia Kanodia.