Beginning (2020 film)

Beginning (Georgian: დასაწყისი, dasats’q’isi, Dasatskisi, working title: Naked Sky) is a 2020 Georgian-French drama film, directed by Déa Kulumbegashvili, about the wife of a Jehovah's Witness leader who becomes disillusioned with her life inside a patriarchal religious community after its place of worship is firebombed by violent extremists. It was in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, and had its premiere at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. It was subsequently screened and won awards at the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and the Adelaide Film Festival.

Beginning
Film poster
GeorgianDasatskisi
Directed byDéa Kulumbegashvili
Written byDéa Kulumbegashvili
Rati Oneli
Produced byIlan Amouyal
Rati Oneli
David Zerat
Steven Darty (co-pro)
Adrien Dassault (co-pro)
StarringIa Sukhitashvili
Rati Oneli
CinematographyArseni Khachaturan
Edited byMatthieu Taponier
Music byNicolas Jaar
Production
companies
First Picture
OFA
Distributed byMUBI
Release date
  • 11 September 2020 (2020-09-11) (TIFF)
Running time
130 minutes
CountriesGeorgia
France
LanguageGeorgian

Beginning received mostly favourable reviews from critics, with the direction compared to that of Austrian director Michael Haneke.

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