2025 Sundance: Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Masterwork ‘April’ Selected for Spotlight Section

With only two films selections it looks like Sundance’s Spotlight section is about to be snuffed out but among the pair of films programmed here we find perhaps the best sophomore feature of 2024 in Dea Kulumbegashvili‘s Venice Film Festival competition premiered April — which lands another U.S premiere after showcasing at the New York Film Festival last October.