Nino Benashvili
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Nino Benashvili

BBC America Diversity Scholar

Nino Benashvili is a filmmaker from Tbilisi, Georgia, based in New York City.

She is the first Georgian woman to attend the NYU Tisch Graduate Film program, where she has been named a 2023 BAFTA US Scholar, and awarded the Maurice Kanbar Scholarship.

Nino’s latest film WHERE TIME STOOD STILL (currently in post-production) tells the story of a widowed mother and daughter whose ascetic life in the Caucasus mountains is interrupted by the arrival of a foreign traveler.

Born during the Georgian Civil War, Nino focused her first documentary short, CHILDREN OF NIKOZI (2021), on her childhood village, Nikozi, which was bombed during the Russo-Georgian war in 2008. The film was screened at festivals worldwide and is now available to stream on PBS.

Nino’s films explore generational trauma, sexuality, and morality.

Visit Nino’s website.