EXCLUSIVE: A dozen films are set to premiere in the marquee category of International Competition at International Documentary Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA ), the world’s largest nonfiction festival that opens today in the Dutch capital.

Among the films vying for the international prize is The Kartli Kingdom , directed by Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel , an exploration of a former sanatorium in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi that shelters refugees from the brutal 1990s war in Abkhazia. It was supposed to serve as a temporary refuge only, but 30 years later, it’s still in operation.

The Kartli Kingdom holds its world premiere on Sunday (at the Tuschinski 2 theater). We have your first look at the documentary in the teaser-trailer above.

The collapsing Kartli sanitorium, n

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