April

About the film

Nina works in the only small hospital of a provincial town as an OB-GYN. Single and in abstinence from personal relationships, she is unconditionally devoted to her Hippocratic oath. When a newborn dies within seconds of being delivered under her supervision, she is accused of wrongdoings. Under investigation, every detail of Nina's personal and professional life is being scrutinized. Despite the risks, Nina remains devoted to her duty as a doctor, committed to doing what nobody else will.

• Written by

  Dea Kulumbegashvili

• DOP

  Arseni Khachaturan

• STARRING

  Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze

• CO-PRODUCERS

  Sergey Yahontov, Rémi Burah, Olivier Père

• STUDIOS

  First Picture, Frenesy Films, Independent Film Project, Memo Films Production in Co-Production with Arte France Cinema in association with Pyramide Distribution with The Participation of Arte France

Press

• Shocking violence is tempered by strange, silent sequences in a sophomore feature about an obstetrician under investigation, which has echoes of The Piano Teacher.

  The Guardian

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• ‘April’: The cruelest month lives up to its reputation in a radical, shattering exploration of women’s lives, rights and bodies in peril.

  Variety

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• A formidable, defiantly esoteric work.

  Screen Daily

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• Dea Kulumbegashvili marbles gritty realism in the vein of the Romanian New Wave with a fantastical element that might be the projection of the main character’s troubled mind, a stray symbol or just a bit of experimental legerdemain.

  Hollywood Reporter

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• After a long winter, spring always comes in the end, but in the Georgian director’s film, this particular April is cold and dark.

  Cineuropa

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