About Me.

 

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Experience
 

2025 — Hidden In Frame, short film — Director
2025 — Dry Leaf, feature film (Locarno IFF, NY IFF, Toronto IFF and others) — 1st Assistant Director

2024 — Holy Electricity, feature film (Locarno IFF, Sarajevo IFF and others)— 2nd Assistant Director

2024 — In One Year, short film for German TV Series “Ab 18” (3Sat) — Director (released on federal channels ZDF and 3Sat)

2022 — Inconceivable Light, feature film (Tbilisi IFF, Yerevan IFF and others) — Director (released on media platform Cavea))

2023-2020 — Director/editor of commercials (clients: TBC Bank, Bank of Georgia, Mercedes Fashion Week, Visa)

2022-2018 — Documentary films for Chai khana (UK Government-funded NGO) — Director

- One or two thing I know about religion (2018) - Goodbye to language? (2018)
- A day like no others (2019)
- Here and Nowhere Else (2019)

- Until the rain starts (2019)
- I will pay you 50 GEL for every kilo lost (2019) - Their earth chronicles (2020)
- Reviving the wheat fields (2020)
- The flight 2022 (2022)

2021 — My Friend Andro Tbilisi IFF — 1st Assistant Director

2020 — Spring, feature film (Beat Film Festival) — Director of 3 short films
2019 — Very Women Stories (“Exhibition” segment - Kinotavr Film Festival), Vita Activa — Director

(released in cinemas in Russia)

2018 — Raving Riot, feature film (Beat Film Festival, screening at Tate Modern, London) — Author, Line Producer
(released in cinemas in Russia)

2017 — Perfect Order, short film — Director (Sarajevo IFF and others) 2016 — Temet Nosche, short film — Director

2016 — Till the End of the Day, short film — Director (Locarno IFF, Brno IFF - best screenplay, Tbilisi IFF, Batumi IFF, Konik IFF - best DOP work and set design, Astana Short Film Festival - best film, and others)

2015 — To Get In, short film — Director (Doclisboa IFF and others)
2015 — Luiza Lozhkina Diaries, TV Series, 20 episodes — Director
2012 — One two three, short film (Gesamt Film Festival) — Director
2012 — Yes and Yes, feature film, (Moscow IFF and others)— 1st Assistant Director 2012 — Away, short film (Moscow IFF and others) — Director

2012 — Elephants playground (8 women Film Festival) — Director
2012 — Summer, short film, (Florence long shot Film Festival) — Director

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Festivals and Awards

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2025 — Locarno IFF, NY IFF, Toronto IFF, Chicago International Festival,BFI London Film Festival (LFF), PÖFF (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival), Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale), São Paulo International Film Festival. Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique or International Film Critics Award given by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), Special mention Prize at Locarno, Best Feature Film Tbilisi IFF.

2024 — Locarno IFF, Sarajevo IFF, Busan International Festival, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Thessaloniki IFF, IFF Rotterdam. Golden Leopard - Cineasti del Presente - Locarno IFF Junior Jury Awards - Locarno IFF, Best Feature Film Tbilisi IFF.

2022 — Golden Apricot Yerevan IFF, Tbilisi International Film Festival, Batumi IFF, Lift-Off Global Network.

2021 — Tbilisi IFF best short film. 2021 — Unifiels filmmakers festival. 2020 — Beat Film Festival.
2019 — Beat Film Festival.

2017 — Sarajevo IFF, Batumi IFF, Tbilisi IFF

2017 — Sochi Open Russian Film Festival “Kinotavr”

2016 — Locarno IFF, Batumi IFF, Tbilisi IFF, Open cinema festival “Kinoshok” , Film Festival “Kyrgistan land of short films”, Kinenova Film Festival, Anonimul International Film Festival, Burgas IFF, Prize for best art design and best DOP on “Konik” Film Festival
Prize for best script on Brno International Short Film Festival

Prize for best film on International Short Film festival in Astana

2015 — Doclisboa Film Festival, National festival of debut films “Movement”,, Camhinos Film Festival, Olympia International Film Festival for Children and Young People, Moscow international short film festival “Debut Cinema”, Brooklin Film Festival.

2014 — Moscow IFF, Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique or International Film Critics Award given by the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), Best Director (for Valeria Gay Germanica)

2012 — Moscow International Film Festival , Festival ArtDeco de Cinema, Naoussa International Film Festival, Festival OPEN CINEMA, ХХII International Festival “Message to man”, VOICES- Russia, ,13th Student and Short Film Festival Sleepwalkers, Tbilisi IFF, ALTER-NATIVE 20 International Short Film Festival, “KONIK” Film-Festival, Gulf Film Festival, Tbilisi International Student Film Festival “AMIRANI”, International Film Festival of Berdyansk, Ljubljana International Short Film Festival, Monaco Charity Film Festival, 11th “One Shot” International Short Film Festival, 17th Buchon International Fantastic Film Festival, Best Debut Prize on 9-th International Film Festival “Kinoproba”.

2012 — Gesamt Film Festival.
2010 — Florence Long Take Film Festival.

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Residencies, Labs & Grants

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- 2024 Mediterranean Film Institute Feature Film Lab - 2023 Telavi Script Lab
- 2023 Torino Series Lab
- 2022 Fulbright Winner

- 2019 Golden Apricot GIAFF PRO C2C Market - winner - 2017 Berlinale Talents
- 2017 Bakuriani Cinema Forum
- 2017 Lab "Sordujestvo" in Batumi

- 2016 Kinoshok Film Lab
- 2014 Connecting Cottbus
- 2014 Hubert Bals Funding - winner
- 2013 Sochi International Film Festival "Kinotavr" Pitching Competition - 2013 Batumi International Film Festival Feature film Lab "New Wave" - 2008 Internship on Otar Iosseliani feature film "Chantrapas"

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