Marija Kavtaradzė

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Jun 03, 1991 (33 years old)

Marija Kavtaradzė

Known For

Crosswalk That Wasn't There
0h 9m
Movie 2023

Crosswalk That Wasn't There

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

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.