Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, this powerful second feature from director Dea Kulumbegashvili tells the story of an ob-gyn in eastern Georgia. When a baby dies under her care shortly after delivery at the hospital, Nina’s morals and professionalism come under scrutiny — and she is investigated when rumours about the illegal abortions reach the administration.
“APRIL is unique…. It confirms Kulumbegashvili as an assured visionary unafraid to engage with ambivalence and radical opacity. In other words: a different brand of storyteller.” —Savina Petkova, The Film Stage “There isn’t a horror director alive who wouldn’t kill to create frames as tense, ominous, and viscerally captivating as those of Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili, who applies her talents toward elemental character studies about rural women suffering under the yoke of patriarchy at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains…. In this remarkable and shudderingly unresolved film, blessings and despair tend to become one and the same.” —David Ehrlich, IndieWire “APRIL unfolds with the high-stakes, breath-stopping tension of a thriller, minus any undue compression or manipulation of plot points, and a hyper-poised camera content to watch any scene play out for precisely as long as it takes.” —Guy Lodge, Variety
