Nino Kirtadze
- Actress
- Director
- Writer
Academy-award-winning director Nino Kirtadze is internationally
renowned for her sensitive and compassionate approach to difficult
issues and her intense visual sense. Her powerful feature-length
documentaries deal with controversial subjects, always placing the
accent on the human drama underlying her stories and creating deep
insightful human portraits. Her camera turns the natural into the
supernatural and back again, blending together the personal and the
universal without black and white romanticism. Nino Kirtadze's films
have won international acclaim and numerous prestigious awards at
festivals worldwide, including World Cinema Best Director Prize at
Sundance for her "Durakovo-village of fools" (2008) and European Film
Academy Best documentary Prize for "Pipeline next door" (2005), also
awarded by the Grand Jury Prize and the John Templeton Award at Visions
du REEL, Switzerland. Other highlights include Germany's top
documentary award, the Adolf Grimme Golden Prize, for "Chechen Lullaby"
(2002) and the Golden Fipa, France's top creative documentary award
and the Cinema du Reel Louis Marcorelles Prize for "Tell my friends
that I'm dead"(2004). Her film "Something about Georgia" won the Idee
Suisse TSR Prize at Visions du Reel 2010.
Nino Kirtadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She holds a degree in literature. Her script for a full-length feature film ("Monday") won the best script award from the Georgian Union of Cinematographers in 1991. She began her acting career by playing the lead role in a "Chef in love" a film by Nana Djordjadze which was selected at Cannes in 1996 and nominated for an Oscar. During the troubles of the 1990s in the Caucasus, she worked as a war correspondent for AFP and for AP, covering the war in Chechnya and other armed conflicts in the region. Since 1997, Nino Kirtadze has lived in France, where she has worked with Peter Brook, Jean-Pierre Ameris, Philippe Monnier, Claude Goretta and Olivier Langlois. Kirtadze is member of the French writers' and directors' society La SCAM and a member of the European film Academy. Nino Kirtadze collaborates on a regular basis with different national and international organizations as a consultant, jury, lecturer, and tutor.
Nino Kirtadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She holds a degree in literature. Her script for a full-length feature film ("Monday") won the best script award from the Georgian Union of Cinematographers in 1991. She began her acting career by playing the lead role in a "Chef in love" a film by Nana Djordjadze which was selected at Cannes in 1996 and nominated for an Oscar. During the troubles of the 1990s in the Caucasus, she worked as a war correspondent for AFP and for AP, covering the war in Chechnya and other armed conflicts in the region. Since 1997, Nino Kirtadze has lived in France, where she has worked with Peter Brook, Jean-Pierre Ameris, Philippe Monnier, Claude Goretta and Olivier Langlois. Kirtadze is member of the French writers' and directors' society La SCAM and a member of the European film Academy. Nino Kirtadze collaborates on a regular basis with different national and international organizations as a consultant, jury, lecturer, and tutor.
