BEGINNING

დასაწყისი

Details

Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili
Cast: Ia Sukhitashvili, Rati Oneli, Kakha Kintsurashvili
Running Time: 125 mins
Language: Georgian
Genre: Drama
Rating: M18

Synopsis

[Part of 31st Singapore International Film Festival 2020]

Yana, a former actress, and her minister husband are Jehovah’s Witness missionaries in a remote Georgian town. Following a horrific attack on their church, her husband leaves on a work trip. Yana, alone with her young son, is faced with a hostile community and a corrupt police. Embroiled in an identity crisis herself, Yana endures physical and psychological trauma, with no one to turn to. Through the juxtaposition of natural scenery against cold, domestic spaces, Yana’s torment is not so much seen but felt, resonating through the spaces she inhabits. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s still camerawork with precise mise en scène dispassionately paints a stoic front that belies the dark undertows of a woman’s suffering.

BEGINNING will be screening at Filmgarde Cineplexes Bugis+ on 27 November and 4 December 2020.

Book your tickets here.