April

New Directors Competition

April

April

France, Italy, Georgia 2024 Fiction cor 134 min.

Nina is a skilled obstetrician at a maternity hospital in Eastern Georgia. After a difficult delivery, the infant dies and the grief-racked father demands an inquiry into her methods. The resulting scrutiny threatens to bring to light Nina’s sideline —driving through the stunningly beautiful countryside to the village homes of pregnant girls and women to provide unsanctioned abortions— and to destroy the profession that is the only source of meaning in her life.

Winner of the special jury prize at the Venice International Film Festival and the best film award at the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera competition at the San Sebastián International Film Festival.

Georgia France Italy female-centric female directors international film festivals awarded films

direction

Dea Kulumbegashvili

screenplay

Dea Kulumbegashvili

cinematography

Arseni Khachaturan

editing

Jacopo Ramella Pajrin

sound

Zezva Pochkhidze

sound design

Lars Ginzel

music

Matthew Herbert

production design

Beka Tabukashvili

cast

Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze, Roza Kancheishvili, Ana Nikolava, David Beradze, Sandro Kalandadze

production

Luca Guadagnino, Ilan Amouyal, David Zerat, Francesco Melzi D’Eril, Archil Gelovani, Gabriele Moratti, Alexandra Rossi

co-production

Sergei Yahontov

produced by

Frenesy Film Company, First Picture, Memo Films, The Independent Film Project

co-produced by

ARTE France Cinéma

world sales

Goodfellas

contact

[email protected]

indicative rating

18