Programs
April
FILMeX Competition
Introduction
France, Italy, Georgia / 2024 / 134min
Director：Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI
In Georgia, though the law permits abortion at twelve weeks, social and political pressure has effectively criminalized it. This film depicts a gynecologist who works at great risk, driven only by her sense of duty, treating and performing surgery on women in their homes who have been left with no other choice. Social and psychological alienation progressively gnaw away at her being. The surreal depiction of this, in its intensity and precision, is categorically devastating.
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s second feature film, following on “Beginning,” which received a Cannes label at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival (canceled due to the pandemic) and won the Best Film award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in the same year. This film premiered in competition at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Special Jury Prize.
Director：Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI
Dea KULUMBEGASHVILI is a Georgian writer/director based in Tbilisi. Her debut short film Invisible Spaces was nominated for a Palme d’Or du Court Métrage at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. It was also the first film from independent Georgia to be part of the Official Competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s second short film Léthé premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Her debut feature, Beginning was part of the Official Selection at the 2020 Cannes Film Festival as well as the San Sebastian Film Festival's
main competition [where it earned a historical win taking home four awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay & Best Actress for Ia Sukhitashvili], the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival [where it won the FIPRESCI Award], the main slate of the New York Film Festival or the Busan International Film Festival.
Beginning was selected to represent Georgia for the International Feature Film Oscar run in 2021. Dea’s second feature, April will premiere in Competition at the 81st Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica in Venice.
Schedule
11/27（Wed）20:55 -
Human Trust Cinema Yurakucho
11/30（Sat）14:30 -
Marunouchi TOEI