Nino Benashvili is a writer and director from Tbilisi, Georgia, currently based between New York City and Tbilisi.

She is the first Georgian woman to attend the NYU Tisch Graduate Film Program, where she was named a 2023 BAFTA US BBC Diversity Scholar and awarded the Maurice Kanbar Scholarship.

Her debut narrative short film, სადაც დრო იდგა / Where Time Stood Still (2024), had its world premiere at the 72nd San Sebastián International Film Festival in the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section, followed by Baltic and North American premieres at Tallinn Black Nights (PÖFF) and the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, respectively. The film's festival run is ongoing, and it was awarded the Jagat Murari Directing Award.

Born during the Georgian Civil War, Nino turned to filmmaking to explore memory, resilience, and national identity. Her award-winning documentary short, ნიქოზის შვილები / Children of Nikozi (2021), focuses on her childhood village, which was bombed during the 2008 Russo-Georgian War. The film screened internationally, won a Bronze Remi Award at the 2021 WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival, and was later acquired by PBS.

Nino earned her B.A. from St. John’s College Annapolis, where she double majored in Philosophy and the History of Math and Science, with minors in Classical Studies and Comparative Literature. She is fluent in Georgian, English, German, and Russian, and has a working knowledge of Ancient Greek and French.