27 Seconds
Curated by Jenia Fridlyand
November 4th, 2021 — January 3rd, 2022
Dea Kulumbegashvili is a Georgian writer-director whose debut feature, Beginning premiered as an Official Selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. The film, developed at the JSFL 2017, won multiple awards at San Sebastian, TIFF, NYFF and Busan. Beginning as well screened at Lincoln Center and MoMA in NYC on several occasions. It was Georgia’s representative to the Academy Awards. Her debut short Invisible Spaces, the first film from Georgia to be part of the Official Competition at Cannes, was nominated for a Palme d’Or (2014).
Dea has studied film directing at Columbia University, Film Department and Media Studies at the New School in New York. She is currently working on a PhD at European Graduate School.