Crossing

Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.

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Lia, a retired teacher from Georgia, learns from her young neighbor, Achi, that her long-lost transgender niece, Tekla, has crossed the border into Turkey. In search of Tekla, Lia travels to Istanbul with the unpredictable Achi, where they explore the hidden depths of the city.
Cast:

• Lia: Mzia Arabuli
• Achi: Lucas Kankava
• Evrim: Deniz Dumanlı
• Tekla: Tako Kurdovanidze
• Omer: Ziya Sudançıkmaz
• Izzet: Bünyamin Değer
• Gülpembe: Sema Sultan Elekci
• Ramaz: Levan Gabrichidze
• Aynur: Mehtap Özdemir
• Ceylan: Bergüzar Mercan
• Dr. Erol: Mehmet Isyar

Crew:

• Producer: Mathilde Dedye
• Co-Producer: Katja Adomeit
• Co-Producer: Nadia Turincev
• Co-Producer: Omar El Kadi
• Co-Producer: Anna Khazaradze
• Co-Producer: Nino Chichua
• Co-Producer: Ersan Çongar
• Co-Producer: Anna Croneman
• Co-Producer: Charlotta Denward
• Executive Producer: Ludvig Andersson
• Executive Producer: Mattias Sandström
• Screenplay: Levan Akın
• Associate Producer: Daniel Oliva Andersson
• Associate Producer: Carin Sahlin
• Associate Producer: Jeppe Wowk
• Editor: Emma Lagrelius
• Director of Photography: Lisabi Fridell
• Casting: Pinar Celik
• Casting: Leli Miminoshvili
• Casting: Eka Mzhavanadze
• Casting: Bulut Sezer
• Production Design: Roger Rosenberg
• Art Direction: Shota Bagalishvili
• Art Direction: Meral Efe Yurtseven
• Art Direction: Yunus Emre Yurtseven
• Costume Design: Linn Eklund
• Makeup Artist: Esra Arslan
• Makeup & Hair: Suat Inalhan
• Makeup Designer: Esma Keskin
• Casting Assistant: Nino Agladze
• First Assistant Director: Murad Erdem
• First Assistant Director: Rikard Waxin
• Set Decoration: Mecra Yazıcı
• Assistant Art Director: Kato Gelashvili
• Assistant Art Director: Ketevan Gunia
• Assistant Art Director: Melike Yılmaz
• Set Dresser: Gigi Janikashvili
• Sound Mixer: Mustafa Bölükbaşı
• Sound Recordist: Irakli Ivanishvili
• Sound Designer: Sigrid Aalbæk Jensen
• Sound Designer: Anne Gry Friis Kristensen
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Erik Hals
• Visual Effects Producer: Vincent Larsson
• Visual Effects Producer: Jakob Witt
• Gaffer: Ömer Aksoy
• Gaffer: Thomas Neivelt
• Camera Operator: Avni Erdoğan
• Line Producer: Anna Maria Aslanoğlu

Catogories:
Drama
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Language:
English,ქართული,Türkçe
Production:
Denmark,France,Georgia,Sweden,Turkey
Company:
French Quarter Film,Adomeit Film,Easy Riders Films,1991 Productions,Bir Film,SVT,RMV Film
Popularity:
97.582
Date:
2024-03-22
Year:
2024

• CinemaSerf: There’s something entirely plausible about the performance from Mzia Arabuli in this poignant drama. She is the retired school teacher “Lia” who is determined to track down her niece now that her sister has recently died. She lives in Georgia, likes a drink or two, and thinks that “Tekla” has fled to neighbouring Turkey where she is able to live her life more freely. She is trans – and that’s not a situation encouraged at home! “Lia” hasn’t a word of Turkish, though, so she agrees to take local wide boy “Achi” (Lucas Kankava) with her as a sort of guide-cum-translator. The seedier side of Istanbul beckons for both of them, but what chance of tracking down one person in a city of millions? Fortunately, the young man can’t sleep one night and goes out to explore. He makes some new friends and these friends lead them to newly qualified lawyer “Evrim” (Deniz Dumanli) who promises to try to help… Now it would have been very easy for auteur Levan Akin to do this the A+B=C way, but he doesn’t. He doesn’t make the film about the search for “Tekla” so much as about a search by this woman to find herself, to reignite her sense of purpose and to to put into perspective issues that drive families apart leaving everyone bereft of affection and understanding. It’s that role that Arabuli plays with an honesty that really works. There’s an almost maternal chemistry between her and the young “Achi” and as they search, we see a city that really is a potpourri of just about every aspect of humanity – some friendly, so less so. I found this to be quite an effective film about live-and-let-live in a city where poverty and wealth exist side by side and where there appears to be a largely prevailing degree of tolerance and, to an extent, generosity of spirit. It’s hopeful but not unrealistic, and proof that there’s plenty of life in the old girl yet!