April

April

May 16, 2025
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.

Details About the Film

When a newborn baby dies after an otherwise routine delivery, obstetrician Nina (Ia Sukhitashvili) is accused of malpractice and placed under an investigation. With Nina’s professional and personal life under scrutiny, her illegal but necessary work as an abortion provider is at risk of being exposed. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili’s sophomore feature April is a boundary-pushing, arresting work exploring those on the frontlines of reproductive justice.

Director(s): Dea Kulumbegashvili
Starring: Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze
Year Released: 2025
Runtime: 134 minutes
Country: Georgia, France, Italy
Language(s): Georgian with English subtitles
Content Warning(s): Domestic Abuse / Violence
Accessibility Options: ListenTech (Hearing Impaired / Personal Amplified Audio Receiver w/optional T-Coil loop)

Film Reviews

"It is a disorienting, all-consuming sensorial experience and made all the much better to those willing to surrender to its mysteries."

–Rafaela Sales Ross, Little White Lies

"There’s great mystery to April. You don’t understand it so much as intuit or inhabit it. Kulumbegashvili’s storytelling is based on a visual language all her own, for me the true mark of a great director. "

–Zhuo-Ning Su, Awards Daily

"An uncompromising, intensely felt panorama of female identities, agencies and desires under attack, April manages to be both a work of controlled formal rigor and unleashed, often overwhelming human feeling."

–Guy Lodge, Variety

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