The journey in question is from Batumi, the main seaport city of southwest Georgia, to Istanbul, where the greater part of the story unfolds, although narrative in itself is of less importance, Akin’s ...

In Levan Akin’s fascinating drama, two strangers connect in Istanbul. By Amy Nicholson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. ...

Crossing, the moving new film from Levan Akin, writer/director of the much loved And Then We Danced, opens with a woman known to all as Miss Lia (Mzia Arbuli) striding by the beach outside the ...

We know what typically happens in movies when characters go looking for missing loved ones. Surprise — they find themselves. End of quest. But something more nuanced emerges regarding our internal ...