Dea Kulumbegashvili
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.
| Film | Credit |
|---|---|
 April2025 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
 Beginning2020 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
 Léthé2016 · Writer, Director | Writer, Director |
 Invisible Spaces2014 · Director, Writer | Director, Writer |
| UUntitled Dea Kulumbegashvili FilmDirector, Writer | Director, Writer |