Marija Kavtaradzė

Directing

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.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

Crosswalk That Wasn't There

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Film school students try to tackle the problem of the missing additional crosswalk to the Sluškai Palace.

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Crosswalk That Wasn't There

Self

Production

MOVIE

Normal People Don't Explode Themselves

6.0(0.0K)

Normal people don't explode themselves!? Film was nominated for Sidabrine Gerve Award for Best Student Film 2013.

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Normal People Don't Explode Themselves

Director

MOVIE

After Rave

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Milda is planning to spend a night with her friends, but the news of her grampa's death slowly sets in.

Runner

7.1(0.0K)

When Marija learns that her unstable boyfriend has disappeared, she takes to the streets in an attempt to find him.

Runner

7.1(0.0K)

When Marija learns that her unstable boyfriend has disappeared, she takes to the streets in an attempt to find him.

Slow

6.8(0.0K)

Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Slow

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Dancer Elena and sign language interpreter Dovydas meet and form a beautiful bond. As they dive into a new relationship, they must navigate how to build their own kind of intimacy.

Parade

7.0(0.0K)

Miglė, who married when she was very young, has for 26 years been divorced from her ex-husband who one day calls her and asks for a favour. He has found that it would be a good time to get married again after the death of his mother. But there is a small problem: their divorce is valid only in the eyes of the law, because a Catholic marriage cannot be divorced. It can, however, be annulled. All that needs to be done is to complete an application and give the “Catholic court” a good reason. But she does not know in what kind of absurd situations she is about to find herself in.

The Poet

8.0(0.0K)

A newly appointed teacher arrives at a remote village school in 1947. The famous journalist and distinguished poet was downgraded for illegal publications and forbidden anti-Soviet verses. Suspicious locals still prefer to test his loyalties, while children wilingly recite his verses from 'To My Soviet Motherland', written under pressure to prase Uncle Lenin. Eventually, an unforgotten friend shows him a secret wintery path to the Dainava resistance platoon's underground bunker.

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The Poet

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