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Za~etek Dasatskisi Beginning Dea Kulumbegashvili
re`ija/directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili scenarij/screenplay Dea Kulumbegashvili, Rati Oneli fotografija/cinematograhpy Arseni Khachaturan glasba/music Nicolas Jaar monta`a/editing Matthieu Taponier igrajo/cast Ia Sukhitashvili (Jana), Rati Oneli (David), Kakha Kintsurashvili (Alex), Saba Gogichaishvili (Giorgi), Ia Kokiashvili, Mari Kopchenovi, Giorgi Tsereteli producenti/producers Ilan Amouyal, Rati Oneli, David Zerat produkcija/production O.F.A. 17 Irakli Abashidze street #18 0179 Tbilisi, Georgia E academia�gmail.com & First Picture & Zadig Productions format/format DCP, barvni/colour dolžina/running time 125' festivali, nagrade (izbor)/ festivals, awards (selection) San Sebastian 2020 (najbolj{i film, najbolj{a re`ija, najbolj{i scenarij, najbolj{a igralka/Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Actor), Toronto 2020 (nagrada FIPRESCI/FIPRESCI Prize), Cannes 2021, Rotterdam 2021
V zadr`anih, natan~no komponiranih, med eteri~no lepoto in klini~no distanco ujetih prizorih podan portret `enskega prebujenja.
A portrait of a woman's awakening presented in restrained, minutely composed frames hovering between ethereal beauty and clinical distance.
V odro~nem gruzijskem mestecu skupina skrajne`ev po`ge sveti{~e Jehovovih pri~. Za Jano, `eno sve~enika Jehovovih pri~, ki jo `e tako razjedajo dvomi, je to kaplja ~ez rob. Rada bi zapustila Gruzijo, a njen mo` David je ne jemlje resno. Ko David odpotuje v Tbilisi, da bi stare{ine zaprosil za sredstva za obnovo cerkve, Jano obi{~e mo{ki, ki trdi, da je policist, in jo zasli{uje z vedno bolj intimnimi vpra{anji. ^eprav ji je popolnoma jasno, da pravno, moralno in ~ustveno podpisuje svojo smrtno obsodbo, se Jana odlo~i za dejanje, ki zamaje temelje patriarhalne skupnosti.
When extremists burn down the church of the Jehovah's Witnesses, it's the last straw for Yana, wife of David, a congregational leader. She wants to leave rural Georgia, where she and her fellow believers have just started building a new community. But David waves off her fears as irrational oversensitivity and goes to the council of elders to arrange money to rebuild their church. While he's away, Yana is visited by a police officer who asks her some extremely intimate questions. Knowing full well that she is legally, morally and emotionally signing her own death warrant, she decides to strike at the very roots of patriarchal society.
"Zanima me ustvarjanje filmov o `enski na splo{no. Kaj pomeni biti `enska, v `enskem telesu, z `enskimi ~uti, ob~utji, umom. To je kompleksno bivanje." (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
prodaja/world sales Wild Bunch International E edevos�wildbunch.eu distribucija/distribution Fivia d.o.o. Prelo`nikova 1 3212 Vojnik E cenex�siol.net
"I'm interested in making films in general about being a woman. What does it mean to be a woman, in your body, in your senses, feelings, your mind? It's a complex existence." (Dea Kulumbegashvili)
Dea Kulumbegashvili
filmografija (izbor)/filmography (selection)
Rojena leta 1986 v ruskem Orjolu, odra{~ala je v malem gruzijskem mestu Lagodekhi ob vzno`ju Kavkaza. Iz filmske re`ije je magistrirala na Umetni{ki akademiji Univerze Kolumbija. @ivi in dela v Tbilisiju. Za~etek je njen celove~erni prvenec, ki je na festivalu v San Sebastianu osvojil kar {tiri najpomembnej{e nagrade.
2014 Ukhilavi sivrtseebi (Invisible Spaces) (kratki/short) 2016 Léthé (kratki/short) 2020 Dasatskisi (Beginning/Za~etek)
Born in 1986 in Oryol, Russia, and raised in a small town called Lagodekhi at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Film Directing at Columbia University School of the Arts. Her debut feature, Beginning, won as many as four major awards at the festival in San Sebastián.
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Gruzija, Francija Georgia, France 2020