Crossing, dir. Levan Akin, 2024 Sweden/Denmark/France/Turkey/Georgia, 105 min., in Georgian and Turkish with English subtitles, and in English without subtitles 👍
Thursday, June 27, 2024, 6:00 PM, Roxie
not available in the Digital Screening Room streaming encore
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| Crossing |
Lia, a retired schoolteacher in Batumi, Georgia 🇬🇪, is trying to find her niece Tekla after the death of her sister (Tekla’s mother). She has heard that Tekla, who is a trans woman, may have moved to İstanbul. Lia gets help from a neighbor, Achi, a young man who is living with his abusive older brother. They drive together the short distance to the Turkish border, take the long bus ride to Istanbul, and set out trying to find Tekla. Their paths repeatedly cross with an assortment of other characters, including a couple of street kids and a trans woman named Evrim who is studying to be a lawyer and working as an advocate for trans people and other marginalized people in the community, including the street kids.
The film starts off rather slowly, taking a fairly long time to get to the actual searching in Istanbul, and the interweaving of subplots occasionally leaves you wondering how they connect to the main story. Also, the film is slow to warm to both Lia and Achi as sympathetic characters. However, if you start this film, you should stay to the end, because most of the payoff comes in the last 10 to 15 minutes. Highly recommended.
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