Multi award-winner at the Cannes, Venice and Berlin Film Festivals, Otar Iosseliani is a Georgian filmmaker whose works feel like 'silent talkies'. They contain a unique sense of nostalgia and a poetic casualness that is characterized by the 'joyous pessimism' of his universe. In 1962, the short film completed at the end of his studies, 'April', was immediately banned by the Soviet authorities. His first three features: 'Falling Leaves' (1966), 'There Once Was a Singing Blackbird' (1970), 'Pastorale' (1976), were similarly banned or restricted severely on release...