Said Eliot April was the cruelest month, but this is hardly the case for this April 2025, when Dea BulumbegashviliS Shatting New drama “April” Finally opens.
Ok, to be fair, “April” is a cruel filmLocated in a distant Georgian village, where a reverence Bastric is accused of malpractice and exhausted by her city people after a child dies at the delivery table. At the same time, she provides illegal abortions for the village’s broken, young and helpless women. Indieview shares the exclusive trailer below for the movie, which won a Venice Film Festival 2024 Special Prize From a jury led by none other than Isabelle Huppert. Rising distributor Metrogography imagesWhich also runs a brick-and-murmus theater in Lower Manhattan, the film opens in selected cities on April 25.
“April” reunites Kulumbegasvhili with actress Ia Sukhitashvili, who played the lead role in the director’s 2020 -breakout “beginning”, about religious extremism and abuse, also in a Georgian village.
Indieviewer’s David Ehrlich Raved About the film from Venice and writes, “There is not a horror director that would not kill to create frameworks such as tense, ominous and viscerally captivating like those as Georgian filmmaker Deakumbegashvili, who applies their talents against elementary character studies on rural women.
More Synopsis is Here: “Skilled Obstetrician Nina is Accused of Malpractice When a Baby dies during deliver. Survive As a Pariah in a world which desperately needs her.
Aimless Gasvili Speoke too with IndieWire About 2024 New York Film Festival about her experience that directed “April”, which included witnessing living births and aftermath of an actual murder.
But it was not her plan all the time to integrate a real birth into “April”, which opens the film in braid details. “I talked to women who were registered to give birth, and at some point they said:” Maybe you should film. “It started as a joke in a way, and then I realized that I should, that I had to do this” it would be the only possible way for me, not really intervening as a director at that moment. ”
Then she will collaborate with Emma Stone and Dave McCary’s fruit tree productions on her upcoming, SO-FAR Secret project. Fruit Tree has also supported the filmmakers Jane Schoenbrun, Jesse Eisenberg, Nathan Fielder and Julio Torres.
Check out the first trailer and poster below for “April”, IndieWire Exclusives, before the edition of April 25.
