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18.02.2024 - 07:45 / variety.com
Ed Meza @edmezavar Georgian-Swedish director Levan Akin is again winning over audiences with his latest film, “Crossing,” which opened the Berlin Film Festival’s Panorama section. The touching drama is about retired teacher Lia (Mzia Arabuli), who sets off with a young companion, Achi (Lucas Kankava), on a journey from the Georgian city of Batumi to Turkey, where she hopes to find her long lost niece in Istanbul. Pic follows Akin’s acclaimed 2019 film “And Then We Danced.” It was while researching that film in Georgia that he heard a story about a grandfather who was very supportive of his trans grandchild.
“I just thought that was sweet, you know? Especially with all the debate that was going on around and around ‘And Then We Danced’ in Georgia specifically. I’ve always craved to see representation from that region, and stories I wish I would have seen when I was young. “Films have a power, images have power.
And if you show people other ways, other images of the things that they are used to, maybe it will make people think twice. I think that’s what made me want to make this film and tell this story. “It’s also a story about regrets and atonement, and having that conversation with someone that I think we’ve all wanted to have, or say things that you know you can’t say anymore.
I think that’s universal. From the reactions we’re getting here, it’s a film that connects with everyone in that way.” The idea was to do “something intergenerational, a story about youthfulness, age, life and years, just time, and the choices we make and the choice we don’t make, the regrets we have. Those were the things I was thinking about.” While Georgia and Turkey are familiar ground for Akin, the director was eager to share with audiences
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A film that invokes its title in myriad ways, Levan Akin’s newest film, “Crossing,” is predominantly concerned with the differences that emerge across national and gendered identities. A plea for trans acceptance that never preaches to its audience, Akin’s film grounds the story of trans identity in Georgia and Turkey through the narrative of two disparate characters searching for someone in a city they don’t know.
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