What We Shared

Story

Synopsis

By recreating personal stories though testimony, poetry and archival material, the artist and performers explore deep traumas that no single place or language can contain. Abkhazia, the disputed state on the Black Sea – once an opulent Soviet holiday resort with a multi-ethnic population – became a symbolic ghost town following the 1992-93 war with Georgia. Here, fragmented memories and dreams destroyed by violence and exile are exhumed through interpretive re-enactment and haunting sound.

Director

Kamila Kuc

Writers

Thomas de Waal

Language

Russian

Country

Georgia, Poland

Release date

29 October 2021

Ensemble

Cast

• Manana Bigvava

  Performer

• Leena Makoff

  Narrator (voice)

• Sonia White

  Performer

• Oleg Koryavov

  Performer

• Sergey Arutiunov

  Performer