Luka Padiurashvili
Directing
Biography
Luka Padiurashvili is a filmmaker and a researcher from Tbilisi, Georgia. He began his studies in Film and TV directing at Tbilisi State University in 2017 but later shifted his focus and graduated from the Faculty of Cultural Studies. Over the years, he has been involved in various art and film projects, working as a first assistant director on Night Duty Doctor (2018) and as a set decorator’s assistant on Number 26 (2020). Alongside these roles, Luka has independently directed several low-budget short films across different genres, including documentary, docufiction, and experimental cinema. He has a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at TSU, as his one of main interest lies in visual anthropology and ethnofiction cinema as a way to explore the intersections of memory, magic, ritual practices, and everyday life.
Known For
Arriving in Venice to fulfill his grandmother's last wish, a young Malaysian Muslim musician loses her ashes, turning the city into an intimate quest of signs.
Grandmother's Last Wish
A young student heads back to his village during the COVID-19 lockdown to collect ethnographic material for his thesis, but as quarantine stretches on, the rituals and everyday scenes he records start bringing back childhood memories-leading him to piece the footage together into something more personal.