BEGINNING

By Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI

EL GOUNA FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Drama - Completed 2020

In a lazy Georgian village, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. As conflict ensues, Yana, the young missionary and the wife of the community leader, David, faces a slow and tormenting breakdown.

Festivals
& Awards

El Gouna Film Festival 2020
Official selection out of competition
Rotterdam IFFR 2021
Limelight
    • Year of production
    • 2020
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • GEORGIA, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • GEORGIAN
    • Duration
    • 125 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI
    • Producer(s)
    • Ilan AMOUYAL, David ZERAT, Rati ONELI
    • Synopsis
    • In a lazy Georgian village, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. As conflict ensues, Yana, the young missionary and wife of the community leader, David, faces a slow and tormenting breakdown. While her husband manages to obtain CCTV footage of the attack, his search for justice triggers a chain of events that renders the family—with their young son—completely isolated and at the mercy of the hostile local police. The film was selected for the 73rd Cannes Film Festival.