Georgian-born Nutsa Kukhianidze starred in Nana Djordjadze's feature film 27 MISSING KISSES, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim and went on to win more than half a dozen awards. Nutsa herself won the Best Actress award at the Baltic Pearls Riga Film Festival, as well as the Best Newcomer award.

Born in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, in 1993 Kukhianidze moved to the other Georgia - in Atlanta. In the same year she played the lead role in a short film NO PAL, directed by Gio Mgeladze, which won the Best Film award at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the Portuguese Short Film Festival and at the Riverum International Film Festival in 1998. In 1999, Kukhianidze graduated from Tbilisi High School and the following year attended acting and directing classes in the Tbilisi Theatrical Institute.

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