Gela Babluani (b. 1980, Tbilisi, Georgia) is the son of director Temur Babluani, who made such films as La migration des Moineaux (screened in Cannes in 1988) or The Sun of the Wakeful (awarded a Silver Bear at the Berlin IFF in 1993). When he was seventeen, his father sent him and three other siblings to study in Paris, where Gela became involved in film. His first short film A fleur de peau appeared in 2002; 13 Tzameti is his feature debut. He is currently on the set of his second film The Lost Soul (L'âme perdue du sommet), which he is creating together with his father and brother.
MFF Karlovy Vary
