Dea Kulumbegashvili’s feature directorial debut Beginning was a part of the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival’s 2020 edition, even receiving a special in-person screening during the event’s abridged celebration in October. The drama further was invited to the Toronto, San Sebastian, New York and Busan festivals and is also Georgia’s submission for the International Feature Film Oscar.
The story is set in a small Jehova’s Witness community in provincial Georgia and kicks off when their prayer house is attacked. But the focus of the film is Yana, the wife of the community leader who is struggling with her own identity and desires.
Kulumbegashvili spoke with us for Deadline’s Contenders International event, saying part of the inspiration came from feeling like a stranger in her own home after returning from studying film in New York.
“I wanted to make a film about a woman...
The story is set in a small Jehova’s Witness community in provincial Georgia and kicks off when their prayer house is attacked. But the focus of the film is Yana, the wife of the community leader who is struggling with her own identity and desires.
Kulumbegashvili spoke with us for Deadline’s Contenders International event, saying part of the inspiration came from feeling like a stranger in her own home after returning from studying film in New York.
“I wanted to make a film about a woman...
- 1/9/2021
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline Film + TV
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