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it’s uh 100 200,000 people that have been gathered recently over a million population here so 200,000 it’s a lot I think we’re in a really sad situation right now because I when Georgia became an independent state in 1991 I was 10 uh and I I have a feeling that we me and this country we grew up together we really contributed to the creation of this state by putting at least one brick to build it up that’s why maybe we have this kind of feeling of ownership and responsibility towards this uh country towards Georgia and now it feels like as if somebody’s ripping it off from us somebody’s taking it away without asking [Music] over a month ago the Georgian government uh int um introduced a law initiated a law on foreign agents as they call it the law on the transparency of foreign influence which was also initiated last year in March but which caused huge demonstrations so the government had to take this law back uh but now they reinitiated it and uh we in the Georgian Society so to say we see it as a clear sign of turning towards Russian Russia like politics and we also witnessed the rhetoric of the government which is very clearly anti-western anti-eu anti-democratic uh and that concerns us a lot so since over a month every night every day there are huge demonstrations in the inp protesting this law [Applause] [Music] now there is a still procedure to go the president of Georgia will veto the law in probably a couple of weeks and then the go then the parliament will have to um overweight the law so that will take some time um but uh so it’s not finally finally passed uh but basically it will pass for sure we are is I think in a very difficult situation right now the only hope that I personally have is the elections that are coming in October but if the law becomes active that means that the results of the elections will also be not reliable I think uh the popularity of the Georgian Dream party that is the leading party right now has decreased uh however uh this is the political party that is backed by the most to rich men in this country that’s whose property uh is almost whose kind of wealth is almost onethird of the whole country so the all the finances and resources government resources private resources um of this rich man between are on the side of the current Georgian Dream party of the current governing party uh and there is the opposition has been quite weak since some years it’s very scattered um it’s small political parties um uh so the best case scenario would be for the opposition to come together um together with the current president of Georgia maybe who’s very eloquent uh and explicit about in the criticism of the current government policy and to and to run for the elections together but I think with the current government with this policy and rhetorics it’s doing right now I see a very high chance that the government cannot be trusted during elections and they might want to forge it uh another fear is that um the situation in the country will get uh much more intense than it is right now right now it’s quite peaceful on the one hand on the other hand what government is doing they are arresting people they are beating the protesters up um they are uh they’ve made this a crazy thing they’re they’re calling people on over the phone pH and swearing at them and threatening them with their children so it’s a lot of threats and also what they have done is uh they’ve kind of raided the houses I mean and they put posters on front on the front doors of the people saying enemy of the stat uh and other insulting um words with the portray of the person uh in an in put in an in in an insulting insulting statement so they’ve been doing they the government um has been very aggressive and the people hired by the government so another fear apart from the elections is that the situation might get even more intense here I hope it will not get violent but it’s it’s quite on the uh Verge the georan government has been misbehaving for quite some time to put it mildly um the Georgian Ministry of culture started centralizing all all cultural institutions some two three years ago it has become the whole Ministry of culture and the institutions that are supposed to be independent public institutions have been closed down to all independent cultural lectors in Georgia and Georgia National Film Center was also kind of reformed if I can call it so and um the person who’s now the director of the Georgia National Film Center he’s also Deputy Minister Deputy minister of culture and this institution has become inaccessible to Independent filmmakers well the the national funding in Georgia for film has always been little um it was uh it was very little but it was usually the one of the first um fundings for films so it was always helpful but right now we don’t have any of that we don’t have any Public Funding for films at all I mean when when timing the garden came out um in uh internationally and then we also when we also want to releas it in Georgia uh that’s when the kind of a pressure uh started to be clear from the side of the ministry we were not able to release the film taming the Garden in cinemas in Georgia then we rented a screen of the Georgian Film Academy and they too removed the film from the screen uh saying that oh it’s too political that the film causes diversity of opinions um so we were not I was not able to show taming the Garden on a big screen and that’s when they kind of first it was one of the first cases of censorship and then later on like last year for example the person who’s currently the Prime Minister he said that taming the garden is a shameful film and such films should not be made and the right films should be made and then later the minister of culture also said that saming the garden is a lie and basically this all this opposition or criticism so to say uh of the film comes from the fact that the film touches upon uh the hobby of the richest man of the country banish really the person I mentioned and the person who stands uh who is the main uh ruler of the country a shadow ruler of the country they consider if that films are right if they are not critical of the government if they’re not critical of the church if the films don’t make propaganda as they call it of um of uh lgbtq life style uh and if they’re not critical of big government projects and of banish our oligarch as well that those would be the right films for them [Applause] I think uh if things don’t get better there will be a there will be a lot of people leaving in this country I hope this will not happen though and I I have a huge hope in thousands and T tens of thousands of people that are out in the streets every night not being tired of uh asking for uh for for a better future demanding for a better future w [Applause]