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Truth & Movies - A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

Thelma + June Squibb & Josh Margolis | Crossing + Levan Akin | Nebraska (2013)

On Truth & Movies this week, June Squibb takes on her first star­ring role in Thel­ma and we spoke to the leg­end her­self and the film’s direc­tor Josh Mar­golin. Istan­bul becomes a bat­tle­ground for trans rights in Cross­ing. And on Film club its more June Squibb in Alexan­der Payne’s road movie Nebraska. 
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Review

Crossing review – sensitive and soulful

by Hannah Strong

A retired Geor­gian teacher sets out to reunite with her estranged niece in Istan­bul in Lev­an Akin’s com­pas­sion­ate third feature.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Crossing – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A retired Geor­gian teacher sets out to reunite with her estranged niece in Istan­bul in Lev­an Akin’s com­pas­sion­ate third feature.
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Interviews

Levan Akin: ‘A lot of people in Georgia are living secret lives’

by Jack King

The direc­tor of And Then We Danced dis­cuss­es his film’s impact on the LGBT+ com­mu­ni­ty in Geor­gia and beyond.
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Review

And Then We Danced

by Emily Maskell

Rival­ry and romance bloom in Swedish-Geor­gian direc­tor Lev­an Akin’s cap­ti­vat­ing com­ing-of-age drama.

3
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Queer Cinema

How the queering of Georgian folk dance sparked a cultural revolution

by Daniel Theophanous

Lev­an Akin’s And Then We Danced has put LGBT+ rights cen­tre-stage in the con­ser­v­a­tive, Ortho­dox country.