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Dea Kulumbegashvili is is Georgian writer/director based in Tbilisi. Her debut short film Invisible Spaces was nominated for a Palme d’Or du Court Métrage at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. It was also the first film from independent Georgia to be part of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s second short film Léthé premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Her debut feature, BEGINNING, was part of the Official Selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival as well as the San Sebastian Film Festival’s main competition where it earned a historical win taking home four awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, & Best Actress for Ia Sukhitashvili, the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI Award, the main slate of the New York Film Festival, and the Busan International Film Festival. BEGINNING was selected to represent Georgia for the International Feature Film Oscar® run in 2021. Dea’s second feature, APRIL, premiered in Competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.

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