Gela Babluani

Géla Babluani (Georgian: გელა ბაბლუანი) is a Georgian–French film director. Babluani was born in Tbilisi, son of prominent director Temur Babluani. At 17 years of age, he and his three siblings were sent to study in France. His first short film, A Fleur de Peau (2002), received critical appraise. His first feature-length film is 13 Tzameti, won the World Cinema Jury Prize for a Dramatic motion picture at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2006 he directed the film L'héritage with his father about several people from France who visit Tbilisi for an inheritance. In 2010 he completed an American version of 13 Tzameti titled 13.

Works

13

A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Release Date2010-03-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count866

Young Stalin

A diminutive twentysomething 'Soso' (a nickname given to him by his mother) leads a group of revolutionaries in a massive bank heist to rob the Imperial Bank in 1907 Tbilisi. In the process, Soso becomes the man known as Joseph Stalin.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Money

The lives of three thieves attempting to rob a house are altered by what they see inside.

Release Date2017-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count23

Legacy

Three French hipsters and their translator travel through rural Georgia to claim a remote, ruined castle that one of them has inherited. En route, they encounter an old man and his grandchild who are on a journey to carry out a mysterious, morbid ritual designed to end a conflict between warring clans.

Release Date2006-09-20

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count13

13 Tzameti

Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.

Release Date2006-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count243

The Sect

Nika was the poster girl for a secret religious cult called. A group of specialist, called deprogrammers, tries to turn the young woman around, employing questionable methods.

Release Date2019-05-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Document 0241

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

On Edge

Release Date2002-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector