Dasatskisi
Beginning
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s harrowing, sensorial debut feature centres on
a Jehovah’s Witness missionary seeking justice. Alongside her son, George, and husband, David, Yana is a Jehovah’s Witness
missionary in a predominantly Christian Orthodox mountainside village in Georgia. The isolated community of Witnesses is aghast
when their Kingdom Hall is attacked during a service and the modest place of worship left in ashes. The steadfast couple now
stands at the crossroads of continuing to reside in hostile territory and honouring their commitment to a higher power. Yana,
who is searching for purpose in life, becomes fixated on justice. (Toronto International Film Festival)
Films - Selection
Dasatskisi (Beginning, 2020) - Lethe (2016, short) - Ukhilavi sivrtseebi (Invisible Spaces, 2014, short)
Dasatskisi (Beginning, 2020) - Lethe (2016, short) - Ukhilavi sivrtseebi (Invisible Spaces, 2014, short)
CROSSING EUROPE AWARDS
2021: CROSSING EUROPE Award - Best Fiction Film
Competition Fiction · Crossing Europe
VOD 2021
Dea
Kulumbegashvili
Georgia / France
2020
color
125 minutes
Georgian
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay
Dea Kulumbegashvili, Rati Oneli
Cinematography
Arseni Khachaturan
Editing
Matthieu Taponier
Sound/Sounddesign Séverin Favriau,
Tengo Mandzulashvili, Stéphane Thiebaud
Music Nicolas
Jaar
With Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili,
Saba Gogichaishvili
Producer(s)
Ilan Amouyal, David Zerat, Rati Oneli, Paul Rozenberg, Steven Darty, Adrien Dassault
Production
First Picture, Zadig Films, O.F.A
World
Sales
Wild Bunch
Austrian Premiere
World Premiere
Toronto International Film
Festival 2020
Crossing Europe VOD-Premiere
06.06. - 06.07.2021, online
at KINO VOD CLUB.
More details on the VOD program HERE
(only available for streaming in Austria)