Rusudan Gaprindashvili is a Georgian filmmaker based in Germany. With a background in visual and performing arts, media management, and film production. She studied at the State Film and Theatre University (Tbilisi), the University of Georgia – Institute for Media Studies, the International Center of Photography (New York), TU Dortmund and the SAE Institute Bochum, Germany.

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? (April 2025), a German–Georgian co-production 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 and festivals including DOK Leipzig, Beldocs, East-West Talent Lab, Krakow Film Festival (B2B Doc Pitch), and the Close Up program 2023/24. The project has been recognized with the Pitch the Doc Award (Belgrade, 2022), the Whicker’s Award, and the MEDIMED Award (Tbilisi, 2024).

Her new fiction film project "Second Hands" is part of the LIM Development Program - an initiative of the Le Groupe Ouest, one of Europe’s leading platforms for script development supported by Creative Europe MEDIA.