Glasgow Film Festival Letters to Max

When 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. So begins a conversation between them, chronicling the contested state of Abkhazia, which seceded from Georgia during the 1992–93 civil war, and whose independence is recognised by few countries. Among recent questions of self-determined statehood, Letters to Max is a timely meditation on a country’s physical and legal space, and how new nations might be imagined into existence. The screening will be introduced by LUX Scotland’s Isla Leaver-Yap.