Marija Kavtaradzė

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Marija Kavtaradzė

Biography

Marija Kavtaradze graduated from the Academy of Music and Theater, Vilnius, with a BA in directing. She has been making films and writing screenplays for films since 2010. Since her debut in the film industry, Marija Kavtaradze was immediately noticed and appreciated by the Lithuanian film community. Marija Kavtaradze's short films The Last Man (2011) and I Am in My Twenties (2015) were awarded Silver Crane Eggs for best student work. Marija Kavtaradze (along with director Andrius Blaževičius and her sister Tekle Kavtaradze) has also been awarded the Silver Crane for the script of the movie The Saint. Marija Kavtaradze’s best-known movie Summer Survivors appeared in theatres in 2018. It opened Toronto Film Festival in 2019, the film received a special viewer award at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy; it was recognized as the Best Baltic Film at the Tallinn Film Festival, and it also won Young Jury Prize at Tofifest Festival in Poland, 2019. The film was voted the best Lithuanian film at the Film Spring Awards.

Known For

Director

2023
Slow

as Director

2019
Summer Survivors

as Director

2015
Iglu

as Director

2014
Floor Scrapers

as Director

2014
2013
Youngblood

as Director

Writer

Through the Fields

as Screenplay

2023
Slow

as Screenplay

2021
Runner

as Screenplay

2019
2017
The Saint

as Writer

2015
Iglu

as Writer

2014
After Rave

as Writer

2013
Youngblood

as Writer

2011
Laikinai

as Writer

Producer

2023
Parade

as Casting

2022
The Poet

as Casting

2021
Runner

as Casting

Art

2014
Floor Scrapers

as Production Design