Salome Kikaleishvili

Salome Kikaleishvili is a cinema critic, journalist, and lecturer from Tbilisi, Georgia, with extensive experience in media and cultural journalism. She began as a freelance journalist for 24 Hours and contributed to the art magazine Tskheli Shokoladi, writing on contemporary culture and film. As executive editor of Cinema magazine, she specialized in international film festivals and cinematography.

Her roles have included editor positions at magazines: Tabula, National Geographic Georgia, and content/web editor for the Tbilisi International Film Festival and the Georgian National Film Center. She also coordinated the Adami Media Prize for Cultural Diversity in Eastern Europe. Salome has taught Cinema History at leading Georgian institutions and Culture Journalism at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs.

She is a FIPRESCI jury member since 2007 and has participated in numerous international film festivals and was a Golden Globes voter.

Now, she is a committee member of the European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI at the European Film Academy and taking part in the FIPRESCI editorial team. Salome recently relocated to Lisbon.