When artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire posted a letter to Maxim Gvinjia, Abkhazia’s former Minister of Foreign Affairs, he expected it to be returned ‘destination unknown’. To his surprise, he received a phone call from Max. Read more …
This is an intriguing insight into a region awaiting global recognition. However, as so many questions invite evasion, it lacks genuine trenchancy.
French film-maker Eric Baudelaire documents his friendship with a former diplomat from Abkhazia in a evocative, plucky essay-film.
It is a playful documentary in which the images are more beguiling than the contrived exchanges between the pair.
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