Filmmaker
Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Rusudan Gaprindashvili is a Georgian filmmaker based in Germany. With a background in visual and performing arts, media management, and film production, she studied at the State Film and Theatre University (Tbilisi), the University of Georgia – Institute for Media Studies, the International Center of Photography (New York), and the SAE Institute Bochum, Germany.
Her short film Shards received the Promotional Award at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Most recently, she completed the creative documentary How to Talk to Lydia? (April 2025), a German–Georgian co-production that celebrated its world premiere in 2025 as an opening film of Job Film Days International Film Festival and won Grand Jury Prize.
The film has been developed and presented at major international platforms and festivals including DOK Leipzig, Beldocs, East-West Talent Lab, Krakow Film Festival (B2B Doc Pitch), and the Close Up program 2023/24. The project has been recognized with the Pitch the Doc Award (Belgrade, 2022), the Whicker’s Award, and the MEDIMED Award (Tbilisi, 2024).
Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2022
"Shards" Promotional prize of the NRW competition.
"A small room, many unpacked moving boxes, a bed, a woman who finds it hard to get up. So much pain. Before we see it, we hear that there is someone else in the room with us. A little girl in the bed. Two wounded souls make one pain. Spoken sentences are almost impossible. A nursery rhyme and writing on bare skin. From observers of the intimate scene we become fellow sufferers. In one take, without editing. And in the end, this little film about a social taboo gives both the protagonists and us new strength and hope for better times together. A courageous film, with exceptional acting."
by Tamo Gvenetadze
