CROSSING

SWEDEN, DENMARK, FRANCE, TURKEY, GEORGIA | 2024 | COLOR | DCP | 106’ | GEORGIAN, TURKISH, ENGLISH

Few films nowadays possess the rare gift of stealing your heart. “Crossing” is one of them: the moving journey of a retired teacher from Georgia who decides to travel to Istanbul in search of her long-lost trans niece. The generous gaze of Levan Akin ("And Then We Danced") and the disarming performance of newcomer Mzia Arabuli tenderly embrace the odyssey of an elderly woman who comes from the old world to bring compassion, acceptance and unquestioning love to a modern age desperately in need of them. Jury Teddy Award at the Berlin Film Festival.

With the support of

DIRECTOR: Levan Akin
SCREENWRITER: Levan Akin
DoP: Lisabi Fridell
EDITORS: Levan Akin, Emma Lagrelius
PRINCIPAL CAST: Mzia Arabuli, Lucas Kankava, Deniz Dumanli

LEVAN AKIN
Swedish director, of Georgian origin, born in 1979. He maintains a reverent annual relationship with his country of origin. He worked for many years as an assistant director on films co-produced by Swedish television. This is his 4th feature film.
 
FILMOGRAPHY
2024 Crossing 
2019 And Then We Danced 
2015 The Circle 
2011 Certain People