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Crossing
Director: Levan Akın Run Time: 106 min. Release Year: 2024 Language: Georgian
Starring: Deniz Dumanlı, Lucas Kankava, Mzia Arabuli, Tako Kurdovanidze, Ziya Sudançıkmaz
Lia, a retired school teacher living in Georgia, hears from a young neighbour Achi that her long lost niece Tekla, a transgender woman, has crossed the border into Turkey. Hoping to bring Tekla home after a period of estrangement, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi to find her. Exploring the hidden depths of the city, they cross paths with a transgender lawyer called Evrim, who helps them in their search.
“A thoroughly intelligent, emotionally engaging and robustly performed movie from Levan Akin, the Georgian-Swedish director who had an international breakthrough four years ago with the love story And Then We Danced.” ~ Peter Bradshaw, Guardian