Awards

This year's CICAE Forum jury choose a film that's very strong on both a cinematic and political level. It tells a universal and personal story that plays to a background full of violence. The production design is marvellous and the two young main actresses pulled us in their story and did not let us go, untill this very moment.

The jury was very impressed by how this simple coming-of-age story tells so much about the everyday violence and fear in Georgia during a time of turmoil. In stark contrast, all this is portrayed in a poetic style.

For its empathetic portrayal of two couragerous and self-reliant girls engaging with their society in a time of change. It seems to announce some kind of rebirth for Georgian cinema.

The jury wanted to give a Special Award for Personal Storytelling for IN BLOOM. This film, in its intimate exploration of the lives of two teenage girls in the former Soviet state of Georgia just after the fall of the USSR, is an exemplar of personal history as political history, or fiction filmmaking infused with and bolstered by the truth.

For the compelling and original portrayal of a society in flux through a coming of age story employing brilliant photography, production design and an astonishing cast.

For its talent to portrait two strong teenage girls and the energetic recreation of reality in cinema.