He is a Georgian-French film maker. Due to censorship, his films were repeatedly banned in the USSR, inducing Iosseliani to migrate to France in 1982. Iosseliani’s first full-length motion picture, “Falling Leaves” (1966) (“Giorgobistve”), won a FIPRESCI-prize at the Cannes Film Festival. His film “Pastorale”, after it was finished in 1975, was not released, but disappeared for several years in the Soviet archives, and was allowed only a limited distribution later. After the success of “Pastorale” at the Berlin Film Festival in 1982, he emigrated from the Soviet Union to France. In 1984 he filmed “Favorites of the Moon in France”, the same year the film received a prize at the Venice Film Festival and became an Iosseliani’s international success. In the following years his films were again awarded at the Venice Film Festival (“And Then There Was Light” (1989), “Brigands-Chapter VII” (1996)). “Monday Morning” (2002) won Ioseliani a Silver Bear prize at the Berlin Film Festival.

FILMOGRAPHY
2010 Chantrapas
2006 Jardins en automne  / Gardens in Autumn
2002 Lundi matin / Monday Morning
1999 Adieu, plancher des vaches!  / Farewell, Home Sweet Home
1996 Brigands, chapitre VII / Brigands-Chapter VII
1994 Seule, Georgie
1992 La Chasse aux papillons / Chasing Butterflies
1989 Et la lumière fut / And Then There Was Light
1988 Un petit monastère en Toscane
1984 Les Favoris de la lune / Favorites of the Moon
1983 Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc
1975 Past’orali / Pastorale
1970 Iqo shashvi mgalobeli/ There Once was a Singing Blackbird
1966 Giorgobistve / Falling Leaves
1964 Tudzhi
1961 Ap’rili / April
1959 Sapovnela