Crossing

AroView: A superbly detailed, compassionate international drama set mostly in Istanbul where a retired teacher and a random young travelling companion have journeyed from Georgia to find her long-estranged, trans-gendered niece.

“Observed with granular detail and imbued with a pulsing sense of place, this novelistic drama takes time to connect its central triangle but does so with a suppleness and restraint that amplify the emotional rewards of its lovely open-ended conclusion.” ~David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“Akin’s approach feels so tied to novel-writing — with shifts in perspectives and at least one plot-twisting formal deceit that whiplashes you only to leave you breathless and a bit swoony — and yet the axis around which his universe orbits is entirely cinematic, and universal.” ~Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire