Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, acclaimed director Dea Kulumbegashvili (Beginning) returns with her latest boundary pushing work, APRIL.
Skilled obstetrician Nina is accused of malpractice when a baby dies during delivery. The ensuing investigation threatens to expose Nina’s illegal sideline: offering abortions to local women.
Nina remains fiercely committed to her patients, but she must walk a razor’s edge in order to survive as a pariah in a world which desperately needs her.
Director
Dea Kulumbegashvili
Cast
Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze
Rating
Year
2025
Country
Georgia, Italy, France
Language
Georgian
Main Trailer
Reviews
- "April is loath to explain itself, inviting us instead to watch, listen and feel our way through it — a work marked, like the benevolent but unreachable woman at its center, by immense empathy and isolated, inconsolable despair."
- Variety - "In this remarkable and shudderingly unresolved film, blessings and despair tend to become one and the same, two limbs of a shared body that Nina’s patients aren’t allowed to control for themselves."
- IndieWire
Awards
- Venice Film Festival
- San Sebastián Int'l Film Festival
- Singapopre Int'l Film Festival
- Athens Int'l Film Festival
- Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Festivals
- Toronto Int'l Film Festival
- Busan Int'l Film Festival
- Sao Paulo Int'l Film Festival
- Hong Kong Int'l Film Festival
- Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
- BFI London Film Festival
- New York Film Festival
- Mumbai Film Festival
- Sundance Film Festival
- Göteborg Film Festival
- and more...