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Chair of the parliamentary commission Tea Tsulukiani. Screengrab from official video. 
Georgia

Georgian Dream’s anti-opposition parliamentary commission ends work

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The parliamentary commission formed by the ruling Georgian Dream party to target and ban the opposition groups concluded its work on Monday. Eight current and former opposition figures are serving months-long sentences for boycotting the commission. At the end of its work, the commission approved a final report which, according to its chair Tea Tsulukiani, consisted of 430 pages. She said the document would likely be made public in September, after it is presented to parliament. The commission

Georgia’s Culture Minister, Tea Tsulukiani, in a 13 December interview on pro-government channel TV Imedi. Screengrab from the video.
Bidzina Ivanishvili

Tsulukiani accuses filmmakers of ‘scamming’ Film Centre

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Georgia’s Culture Minister, Tea Tsulukiani, has criticised a director for allegedly changing the plot of a documentary funded by the government-run Georgian Film Centre, making the film critical of the ruling party’s founder. The documentary, titled ‘Magic Mountain’, tells the story of a tuberculosis clinic in Abastumani, southern Georgia, and its patients. In 2019, a company associated with the billionaire founder of Georgia’s ruling Georgian Dream party, Bidzina Ivanishvili, bought the terri

Protesters holding a banner saying ‘No to censorship! Independence to the film centre!’ on 6 July. Photo: Georgian cinema is under threat/Facebook
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‘Georgian cinema is in danger’: filmmakers take on the culture ministry

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Since mid-June, Georgian filmmakers and their supporters have been protesting a ‘reorganisation’ of the country’s National Film Centre by the Ministry of Culture, warning that it aims to extend full government control over the country’s cinematic output.  ‘Censorship’ is the word that Gaga Chkheidze uses to describe the Ministry of Culture’s reforms at the Film Centre.  Chkheidze is the founder of the Tbilisi International Film Festival and a former board member of the Georgian Film Developm

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