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
Cast Credits
Crew
Crew Credits

The Visitor
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2025

Renovation
Role: Casting
MOVIE • 2025

BFF
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2025

Slow
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2023

Slow
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2023

Parade
Role: Casting
MOVIE • 2023

The Poet
Role: Casting
MOVIE • 2022

We Might Hurt Each Other
Role: Casting
MOVIE • 2022

Runner
Role: Casting
MOVIE • 2021

Runner
Role: Screenplay
MOVIE • 2021

Summer Survivors
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2019

Summer Survivors
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2019

When Children Come Home
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2019

The Saint
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2017
Igloo
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2015
Igloo
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2015

I’m Twenty Something
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 2014

I’m Twenty Something
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2014

Floor Scrapers
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2014

Floor Scrapers
Role: Production Design
MOVIE • 2014