{"id":28212,"date":"2015-09-25T09:07:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/filme-2015-letters-to-max\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T22:10:18","slug":"films-2015-letters-to-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2015-letters-to-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Max"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

Letters to Max<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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DIRECTOR: <\/strong>Eric Baudelaire\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRY: <\/strong>France\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2014\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>English, Russian, Abkhazian\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>English\u00a0\u00a0 L\u00c4NGE: <\/strong>103 min\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>International Forum 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The French artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire shows the paradoxical history of a country that doesn\u2019t really exist: Abkhazia. He uses 74 letters that he wrote to the former Foreign Minister of Abkhazia Maxim Gvinjia and the answers that came largely in the form of audio files as the basis of his film. The result is an impressive, poetic film essay about identity, the creation of states and bizarre everyday life in a non-country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twenty years ago, Abkhazia \u2013 which once was beautiful \u2013 declared independence from Georgia after a bloody civil war. It has all the usual organs and apparatus of a state and its own flag, but it is only partially recognized as a legal state. So the declining country, where the traces of war are omnipresent, exists in a kind of vacuum. In LETTERS TO MAX, Abkhazia\u2019s existence as a (non-)state becomes a touchstone for our parameters of statehood. Pictures of Abkhazia, the letters and Maxim Gvinjia\u2019s responses are juxtaposed to examine unanswered questions together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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