Jury Decision 2025
We Congratulate all the Winners and Thank all the Participants.
About Us:
Mestia International Short & Mountain Film Festival was founded by a NNLE “Center of Art & Culture of Mestia” and a physical entity, film director and producer – Khatuna Khundadze. This is the first festival of this kind to be held in Georgia, a mountainous country stretching alongside the Caucasus Range…
Special Guest Presentation at Mestia International Film Festival
We are pleased to welcome Elie Levasseur, international currator and the head of Immersive Competition at the Cannes Film Festival.
Presentation Topic: “What Can Immersive Art Learn from the Traditional Industry?”
July 30, 2025 15:00
Free Admission
The Immersive Competition is the Festival de Cannes’ latest Official Selection, spotlighting the next generation of international artists who are redefining storytelling through immersive art.
Guest of Honor of the Festival 2024 – Reinhold Messner
“Climbing is all about freedom, the freedom to go beyond all the rules and take a chance, to experience something new, to gain insight into human nature. By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.
The scientists and climbers said that climbing 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen is impossible and it equals death.
So be it – I didn’t go up there to die, I went up there to live.”
These words would only be said by a man who’s immensely in love with the mountains; a man who was trusted by the mountains so much that throughout 30 years they successfully let him ascend to their peaks 3,500 times.
Reinhold Messner – the legendary climber who conquered all fourteen eight-thousand-meter peaks of the Earth, crossed Antarctica, Greenland; as well as the deserts of Tibet, Gobi and Takla Makan…
And this year Reinhold Messner is headed to the Caucasus for our Mestia short and Mountain Film Festival, as the main guest of honor, as a director of mountain-films and as a master.
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