The director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s new movie, “April,” shines a light on the complicated situation for women seeking abortions in Georgia. By Beatrice Loayza Dea Kulumbegashvili may be the most ...

Writer-director Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “April” is the type of film where every single frame knocks you flat. Telling the story of an obstetrician working in a rural town in the country of Georgia who ...

In writer-director Déa Kulumbegashvili’s disquieting second feature, a strange creature is on the loose. We glimpse it in the first moments of “April” — this naked, human-like being whose body ...

April (2024) Film Review from the 62nd Annual New York Film Festival, a movie written and directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili and starring Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze, Roza ...

Whatever cruelness you might assign to the month, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “April” probably has it beat. Kulumbegashvili’s shattering, sensational film is set in a hardscrabble, provincial region of ...

'Beginning' star Ia Sukhitashvili reunites with director Dea Kulumbegashvili for her second feature, about an OB-GYN operating in a remote rural community. By Leslie Felperin Contributing Film Critic ...

“April” is a film grounded in realism. In the story of Nina (Ia Sukhitashvili), a Georgian OB-GYN who provides abortions to the women of the neighboring village, the protagonist’s patients are played ...

Produced by Luca Guadagnino, this elemental character study about an abortion provider in rural Georgia is scarier than any horror movie you'll see this year. There isn’t a horror director alive who ...

Ia Sukhitashvili plays Nina, an obstetrician who performs abortions in rural Georgia, at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains in Dea Kulumbegashvili's film April. (Arseni Khachaturan | Courtesy ...

Dea Kulumbegashvili’s entrancing second feature grew partly out of preparations for her first, Beginning, when she cast children in Georgia and met mothers who married quite young and had large ...