HOW TO TALK TO LYDIA? (Georgia-Germany, 2025, 72′)

Job Film Days 2025 Opening Ceremony 

Tuesday, September 30th, at 8:30 p.m.; Cinema Massimo, Screen 1

On Tuesday, September 30th, at 8:30 p.m., Cinema Massimo will host the opening ceremony of the sixth edition of Job Film Days, with the screening of the movie How To Talk To Lydia? (Georgia, Germany, 2025) by director Rusudan Gaprindashvili , who will be present in the theater to introduce the movie and talk with the audience. This movie, a world premiere, reflects on the use of artificial intelligence in the world of work and the alienation that shapes contemporary life.
The screening will be preceded by greetings from the authorities, who will officially launch the 2025 edition of the Festival.
During the evening, there will also be a presentation of the short clips that will precede the Festival screenings, taken from the ASTUT Fund – Scientific and Technological Archive of the University of Turin.

Presented by Elena Testa (CSC-National Business Film Archive) and Mara Fausone (ASTUT).

The movie will be presented by the director, followed by a Q&A session.

The evening will be hosted by Stefania Rosso (actress).

Admission method : access reserved for guests. However, a number of tickets will still be available to the public and can be purchased both online and at Cinema Massimo box office.

Titolo internazionale: How to Talk to Lydia?
Titolo originale: How to Talk to Lydia?
Director: Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Photography: Goga Devdariani
Editing: Derek Howard, Rusudan Gaprindashvili
Sound: Hans Gralke
Production: Black Market filmproduction

How to talk to and with a voice generated by artificial intelligence? A voice that tells you what to do at work, which movements to carry out with a forklift to collect and move materials in a huge German logistics center? A silent choreography gets shaped. Here migrant workers, the majority from eastern Europe, move among infinite rows of imposing shelves, not guided by their colleagues or supervisors, but by the inflexible voice of an AI system called Lydia. Among the workers there is a Moldovan who left his village to find work in Germany. The movie follows him in the workplace and during breaks, while he returns home for the holidays and while he jokes with his colleagues wondering how Lydia would be if she was a woman. A reflection on the logics of machinery and people’s needs.

Rusudan Gaprindashvili (Georgia) is a Georgian director who lives in Germany. She has studied in the field of Performing Arts, Media Management and Film Production in Tbilisi, New York and London. Co-Director, screenwriter and producer, in 2022 her short film Shards was awarded at the Internationale Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Her debut in long feature films How to Talk to Lydia? participated in numerous laboratories during its planning stage. As a narrator, Gaprindashvili reflects on the post-human condition and alienation.

Filmography: Shards (sf, 2021), How to Talk to Lydia? (doc, 2025).