Rusudan Gaprindashvili

Rusudan Gaprindashvili is a Georgian filmmaker based in Germany. With a background in visual and performing arts, media management, and film production.
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? 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 received nominations for the Giuseppe Šebesta Prize for Anthropological Cinema (2025) and the 15th China Academy Awards of Documentary Film, where it was awarded Best Documentary.
The film has been developed and presented at major international platforms including the Close Up program 2023/24. Has been recognized with the Pitch the Doc Award, the Whicker’s Award, and the MEDIMED Award.

Second Hands

LIM² 2026

Georgian siblings KETO (35) and DATO (33), migrant workers in Germany, make a living by cleaning the homes of the recently deceased. They collect belongings the families no longer want, such as furniture, clothing, bed linens, a tea sets, a tableware and ship them to Tbilisi, where their parents MANANA (71) and MERABI (72) run a small Secondhand Shop built from the remnants of the dead. Siblings are driven by a lifelong search for something that would make sense of their wandering life. They search for a magical object a relic perhaps, or a piece of the past that could repair their existence. It could be anything found in one of the houses they clear. Something that is not just an object but a sign that their life still have meaning. This search follows them all the time, motivates their actions. Every new household is a new chance they get.