Director Kamila Kuc on bringing Abkhazia’s painful history to the screen
In Their Own Words: filmmaker interviews and introductions
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Artist and filmmaker Kamila Kuc speaks to Klassiki about her film What We Shared, a radical and empathetic exploration of the history and aftermath of the Abkhaz War, which ravaged this de facto state in the early nineties and which continues to haunt the post-Soviet Caucasus today. Kuc discusses her innovative approach to the question of memory and her experiences filming in Abkhazia, as well as the philosophical influences behind her film and the relevance of the Abkhaz case to contemporary political debates.
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