Dea Kulumbegashvili

Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI was born and raised in Georgia. She studied film directing at Columbia University School of the Arts and Media Studies at The New School in New York. Her debut short film, Invisible Spaces, was nominated for a Palme D’Or for short film at Cannes in 2014. Lethe premiered as part of the short film programme at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2016 and was nominated for a Tiger Award. Her feature debut, Beginning (2020), premiered in Toronto, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. The film also won the Jury Prize, the Silver Seashell and the Golden Seashell in San Sebastián.