Filmmaker
Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Rusudan Gaprindashvili is a filmmaker from Georgia living in Germany. She has an education and professional background in visual and performing arts, media management and film production (State Film and Theatre University, Tbilisi, Georgia / University Of Georgia, Institute for Media Studies / ICP International Center of Photography NYC / SAE Institute Bochum, Middlesex University London - Digital Film Production). Her last short film "Shards" won the promotional award of the Oberhausen Short Film Festival. Recently she has been working on the documentary project "How to Talk to Lydia?" a German-Georgian co-production. The film has been part of several international platforms and festivals as Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries, DokLeipzig, BelDocs, East West Talent Lab, Krakow International Film Festival as part of B2B Doc Pitch and won Pitch the Doc award in 2022 in Belgrade. As a storyteller, she is particularly drawn to reflecting on life in the posthuman condition and the state of alienation.
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
