- Born
- Height5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
- Rati Tsiteladze is a European Film Academy Award-nominated filmmaker. His debut feature documentary, A Song Without Home (2026), celebrates its world premiere at CPH:DOX, marking a historic milestone as the first Georgian documentary to compete in the Main Competition.
He is an alumnus of Locarno Academy, TIFF Filmmaker Lab, Berlinale Talents, and Cannes Résidence. His shorts have won over 50 awards and screened at more than 300 festivals worldwide, including Hong Kong and Locarno. His acclaimed short Prisoner of Society (2018) won multiple Oscar-qualifying awards and was nominated for the European Film Academy Award. Rati received the Moulin d’Andé Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, and at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), he received the HFPA Film Independent Award presented by the Golden Globes.
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- SpousesOlga Slusareva(March 1, 2021 - present)Nino Varsimashvili(August 22, 2013 - February 6, 2021) (divorced)
- Frequently uses long takes
- Rati gained 30 pounds of muscle for the leading and critical role of Hero (2013). He performed his own stunts, which included scaling a mountain and swimming in freezing water.
- Rati has been described as one of the Georgia's most attractive men - 2012.
- I owe my success to my failure.
- More we remember, more is the chance to know who we are.
- Love: I guess It is some kind of magic, It has a power to make us better... But there is the thing magic can sometimes be an illusion and nothing else.
- Is my imagination as important as reality? Sometimes I think YES... It's imagination that makes reality tolerable... Sometimes, I just want to close my eyes and fall in to the endless imagination...
- When the first time I saw you, when you have been totally stranger, suddenly, somehow everything completely disappeared and I realized that I found it... true love... From that moment nothing else matters...
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