Dea Kulumbegashvili, who grew up in the remote Caucasus Mountains of the newly-independent nation of Georgia, must be getting used to being a trail-blazer.
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, would have been the first Georgian feature to premiere on the Croisette, if COVID-19 hadn't shut Cannes down.
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