
Directing
Marija Kavtaradzė
Born 1991-06-03 · Vilnius, Lithuania
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.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
7.1Lithuanian provincial town is facing the economic crisis in 2008. Vytas gets fired from the factory. Pushed by his wife, he immediately starts looking for a new job, but not really successfully. After having his haircut done, Vytas starts looking for a new love affair with a hairdresser Marija, but not really successfully, either. Finally, Vytas gets involved into a third search - he starts looking for a guy who posted video on youtube, claiming he saw Jesus Christ in their town. This is the only time he succeeds.
The Saint
2017
6.7Dancer 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
2023
6.7Dancer 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
2023
5.0End of summer. Danielius (in mid 30s) makes a return to his hometown to sell his parents' flat. Having nowhere to rush, he reconnects with people and the town that's no longer his. He is confronted with a quiet sense of loneliness.
The Visitor
2025
NRWaiting that makes you grow up. Saule (15) and Liucija (6) are two sisters living alone, waiting for their parents who have temporarily gone to London in search of work. The biggest responsibility falls on older Saule's shoulders - she must take care of Liucija, look after home while dealing with the usual issues of a teenager's life. With so much on her plate and the huge stress Saule is unable to fit in with her peers. The girls do their best to live on their own and struggle with reality but sometimes being a grown-up is just too hard.
Laikinai
2011
NRIt is a gentle sense story about floor scraping and friends that just have moved in together.
Floor Scrapers
2014
Greta, a young woman, returns to Lithuania from abroad to find that her mother turned her room into a hair salon. While thinking of what to do next, Greta sees a TV episode on igloos and decides that the best course of action is to build one outside her mother’s apartment building and live in it. Greta’s igloo becomes the main issue of the neighbourhood – not because it causes them any inconvenience, but simply because it annoys them.
Igloo
2015
Greta, a young woman, returns to Lithuania from abroad to find that her mother turned her room into a hair salon. While thinking of what to do next, Greta sees a TV episode on igloos and decides that the best course of action is to build one outside her mother’s apartment building and live in it. Greta’s igloo becomes the main issue of the neighbourhood – not because it causes them any inconvenience, but simply because it annoys them.
Igloo
2015
NRThree women – a mother and two daughters – decide to spend the last summer weekend together in a remote village. As soon as they leave the city, one conflict follows another, forcing them to confront themselves and to accept this bond for what it truly is.
Through the Fields
2019
As a Lithuanian-Venezuelan actress channels her childhood obsession with beauty pageants into a personal stage act, she confronts the dreams she inherited, the places she left behind, and the woman she’s still becoming.
Miss Venezuela
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7.2A psychology postgraduate student escorts two patients and their nurse to a seaside psychiatric clinic. Along their journey, they break through each other's barriers, delve into the sources of their various traumas, and discover the lasting imprints left on their fragile souls.
Summer Survivors
2019
7.2A psychology postgraduate student escorts two patients and their nurse to a seaside psychiatric clinic. Along their journey, they break through each other's barriers, delve into the sources of their various traumas, and discover the lasting imprints left on their fragile souls.
Summer Survivors
2019
Three friends in their thirties meet up in downtown Vilnius after a long time apart.
I’m Thirty Something
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Three friends in their thirties meet up in downtown Vilnius after a long time apart.
I’m Thirty Something
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It’s a real challenge to get into the girls dormitory. You have to be careful, you have to be silent, nobody can notice you. Ben and Vega are sixteen years old. Ben and Vega are in love. Ben comes to Vega. Vega is waiting for Ben. You know the rest.
Youngblood
2013
It’s a real challenge to get into the girls dormitory. You have to be careful, you have to be silent, nobody can notice you. Ben and Vega are sixteen years old. Ben and Vega are in love. Ben comes to Vega. Vega is waiting for Ben. You know the rest.
Youngblood
2013
7.1When Marija learns that her unstable boyfriend has disappeared, she takes to the streets in an attempt to find him.
Runner
2021
NRMilda is planning to spend a night with her friends, but the news of her grampa's death slowly sets in.
After Rave
2014
NRIeva and Kasparas, sister and brother, are locked out of their home. Their mother has shut the door from the inside and is out of reach. The older sister Dovilė is their last hope, but even with her being there, there’s nothing they can do, but wait.
When Children Come Home
2019
6.3It's a sad comedy about twenty something's generation and the question 'if somewhere is better?'
I’m Twenty Something
2014
6.3It's a sad comedy about twenty something's generation and the question 'if somewhere is better?'
I’m Twenty Something
2014
6.0Normal people don't explode themselves!? Film was nominated for Sidabrine Gerve Award for Best Student Film 2013.
Normal People Don't Explode Themselves
2013
NRFive hilarious stories in one film about three best friends - Ben, Frida and Freddie - who turn everyday challenges into real adventures. Its theme of friendship not only makes the film a great tool to talk about emotional literacy, but also gives you the chance to hear first-hand about the nuances of animation, the genre of the series and its release in cinemas as a film.
BFF
2025

