A documentary to the roots of Abkhazia to understand why such a closed reality can become an urgent example for the rest of the world.

Trailer interviews:

• Viacheslav Chirikba – Abkhazian former minister of foreign affairs
• Sascha Tillmanns – Conifa general secretary
• Per-Anders Blind – Conifa World president
• Juma Kvaratskhelia – Coach of the Abkhazia football soccer team
• O.N. Damenia – Philosopher

currently seeking co-production partners and funding 

For decades Abkhazia, has lived an isolated life, yet its recent history and the slow opening of the borders has brought this de-facto nation unprecedentedly close to the international community. Abkhazia had lived long years with the label of the Soviet Socialist Republic being part of Georgian SSR (Abkhazia got integrated within Georgia by Stalin, himself Georgian), then the Soviet Union collapsed and in 1993 the Abkhazian declared their independence following a bloody Georgian-Abkhaz war. The outcome of the war left this country and its people in the pending condition. Unrecognized by the outside world and deprived of any productive communication with it, the Abkhazian continued to live and to build their model of a country, groping for it in the relative ignorance. Ignorance that turned out to be somehow beneficial.

For Abkhazia everything has been in a way new. After years of dependency and underestimation it is now witnessing a moment of splendor and change. Abkhazia can perfectly fulfill the role of patient zero in the new era to come, it is a blank slate where the lack of experience is an advantage. New solutions to the problems of the contemporary world could grow from here.

In Abkhazia is still carrying its scars of the past, but it is possible to find beauty everywhere. In the nature, in the weather, in people and their stories, in their voices and in their way and desire to share, talk and open their reality to you. Being relatively uncontaminated by the international policies, Abkhazia seems pure. As we like to say: everything seems to be possible there.

As recently as in 2008, the things got moving. The Russian recognition ended the period of complete isolation that the region suffered since the end of the war. We are witnessing a unique example of the community that lived its secluded life for more than 20 years, trying to build its own model of an independent country, following nothing but its own intuition. We believe that the opening of the geographical borders will also promote the process of globalization in Abkhazia and bring irreversible changes to its peculiar reality. We believe it is incredibly important to grasp this moment of transition, the adjustment from the self-focused closed community to the one much more fully involved in the international policies.