Invasion – Dito Tsintsadze Germany/Austria 2012 90m 18
Sunday 29th September 8.00pm Riverside Studios Box office 020 8237 1111 Book online
With Burghart Klausner, Anna Wappel, Merab Ninidze (UK premiere)
Joseph is mourning the death of his wife. At the funeral, some unexpected visitors appear. Joseph invites them to stay. At first they seem to care for him, but they soon turn hostile. Is it paranoia or a brutal invasion?
The screening will be followed by a Q & A with Dito Tsintsadze and Merab Ninidze
Dito Tsintsadze (1957, Tbilisi) is a Georgian film director and screenwriter living and working in Germany since 1996. He studied at the Film and Theatre Institute in Tbilisi, and has directed 11 films since 1988. His first feature On the Border won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival. Lost Killers (2000) was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival and was a hit at the BGS Georgian Film Festival in 2005. Der Mann von der Botschaft (2005) won several awards and films such as Reverse (2008) and Mediator (2009) followed. Gun-shy (2003) was screened in the 2nd BGS Georgian Film Festival in 2010.