April | Reel Lives
Date: 19 June 2025
Venue: Nerve Centre, 7-8 Magazine Street, Derry, Derry, BT48 6HJ
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Venice Film Festival, April is Dea Kulumbegashvili's follow-up to her acclaimed debut Beginning.
Nina (Ia Sukhitashvili) is a skilled obstetrician at a maternity hospital in Eastern Georgia. After a tragedy strikes in the delivery room, the grief-stricken father demands an inquiry into her methods.
The resulting scrutiny threatens to bring to light Nina's other, secret job — driving, through the stunningly beautiful countryside, to the village homes of pregnant girls and women to provide unsanctioned abortions — and to destroy the work that is the only source of meaning in her life.
Dea Kulumbegashvili | France, Italy, Georgia | 2024 | 134 mins | Subtitled | 15