In 1996 he got a Nipkow film fellowship to Berlin,[7][8] then lived with his family in Georgia and Germany.

[9] These personal experiences influenced the plot of Lost Killers (2000), a film about five migrants who spend their lives in a red-light district of Mannheim.

In 2005 Dito Tsinstadze authored together with the Georgian writer and director Zaza Rusadze the screenplay for the film The Man from the Embassy and directed it in Georgia.

[16][17] Dito Tsintsadze and Zaza Rusadze won at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival the Silver Astor Award for Best Screenplay.

[22] In 2011 Dito Tsintsadze gave the CineMerit Award at the Munich International Film Festival to his former mentor Otar Iosseliani.

[25] The same year Invasion won the Special Grand Prix of the jury of the Montreal World Film Festival.