Person
Dea Kulumbegashvili
Directing · Born 1986-01-01 · Oryol, Orlovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]
Biography
Dea Kulumbegashvili is a Georgian film director and writer. She studied film directing at Columbia University School of the Arts and media studies at The New School in New York. Dea’s filmmaking has been informed by her experience of growing up in a place with such a mix of ethnicities and nationalities. Dea was born in Oriol, Russia and raised in a small town called Lagodekhi at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, a former Soviet Union republic. In 2016, she became the first Georgian director to have a film accepted in Cannes — her stunning minimalist short Invisible Spaces. In 2020, her feature debut BEGINNING became the first Georgian film to win the Golden Shell for best film as well as picked up the best director, best actress and best screenplay honors.
Known for
The Way Back
Assistant Director Trainee
Le nid
First Assistant Director
Premiere
2008
Invisible Spaces
Director
Pria
Writer
Black Mulberry
First Assistant Director
Léthé
Writer
April
Director
City of the Sun
Writer
Beginning
Director
Filmography
- 2025AprilDirector
- 2020BeginningDirector
- 2017PriaWriter
- 2017City of the SunWriter
- 2016LéthéWriter
- 2014Invisible SpacesDirector
- 2012Black MulberryFirst Assistant Director
- 2011Le nidFirst Assistant Director
- 2010The Way BackAssistant Director Trainee
- 2010Dream TownFirst Assistant Director
- 2008Premiere
- —Untitled Dea Kulumbegashvili FilmDirector
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