Sophio Medoidze is an artist and filmmaker, born in Tbilisi, Georgia, and based in London since 2001. Her critically engaged practice explores the complexities of geographic and linguistic displacement, drawing on both personal and collective experience. Working with film and photography—both found and newly created—she interrogates the authority of language and questions the emancipatory potential of images. Her work often traces tensions between north and south, urban and rural, and the simultaneous constraints and freedoms inherent in storytelling. Her experimental approach is both poetic and critical, foregrounding lived experience over learned perspective, with a consistent focus on margins, borders, and crossings; a sustained attention to place shapes her inquiry into how meaning is formed, resisted, or reimagined through movement and narrative. Her first feature, Let Us Flow (ვიდინოთ), emerged from five years of deep engagement with the nomadic Tushetian community in her native Georgia.

She graduated with an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College in 2016, and an MA in Fine Art Photography from the London College of Communication in 2005.

Her work has been widely exhibited and screened at galleries and museums including Tate Modern (London), MoMA (online), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), LUX (London), Serpentine cinema, Serpentine Galleries (London), Beursschouwburg (Brussels), Cafe OTO (London), Maison de la Culture (Amiens), CLOSE-UP (London), Centre d'art Contemporain (Brétigny-sur-Orge), Pavilion (Leeds), LC Queisser (Tbilisi), Institut Français (London), Outpost Gallery (Norwich), Le Cyclop (Milly-la-Forêt), IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), Fondation Vincent van Gogh (Arles), and Paris Internationale (Paris). She has participated in international film festivals, including Short Film Festival Oberhausen (Oberhausen), Intersección (A Coruña), Tbilisi International Film Festival (Tbilisi), EMAF European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (Berwick), Eastern Neighbours Film Festival (The Hague), Kasseler Dokfest (Kassel), and Courtisane Festival (Ghent).

She was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School at Rome (2024–2025), Book of the Month at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson (2024), an Arts Council England Project Grant (2022), The Elephant Trust Grant (2022), and Georgian National Film Centre Documentary Funding (2022).

Medoidze’s filmmaking practice also extends into writing and publishing as alternative forms of image-making. Her recent performances and readings have been presented at Courtisane Festival (Ghent), Café OTO (London), Biblioteka, AA Architects (London), and LUX (London). Her first monograph, Bastard Sun, was published by Distanz and Kona Books (2023).

Medoidze’s films are distributed by LUX, London.
For distribution contact: distribution@lux.org.uk