First trailer for Levan Akin’s transgender rights drama Crossing – The Hollywood Reporter

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Political, social and societal boundaries are crossed TransitThe new movie from And then we danced Director Levan Akin. The drama, which has been picked up by MUBI for broadcast in North America, the UK, Germany and Latin America, stars Mzia Arabuli as Lia, a retired teacher who sets out to find her long-lost niece Telka, a trans woman.

The search took her and her neighbor Ashi to Turkey where they met Efrem, a lawyer fighting for transgender rights.

In the first clip of the film, Achi convinces Leia to let him join her in her search.

“The film is based on a true story that was told to me while researching And then we danced“It’s about a grandmother who travels from Georgia to Turkey in search of her transgender granddaughter,” Akin says. Just like in my previous film, Made Transit It was a big challenge. The presence of members of the LGBTQ+ community in Georgia and Turkey is under great pressure, and Turkish President Erdogan has run most of his recent presidential campaign around anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.

And then we danced It premiered at Cannes in 2019 and was released by Music Box Films in the United States. Crossing had its world premiere on February 15 as the opening film of the 2024 Berlinale Panorama section.