Vakhtanguri

In Vakhtanguri, his very first film, Valeriu Adimei directs a reenactment of the story of queer love and resistance lived by his friends, Mindia and Joy, two young Georgians who emigrated in Belgium. As such, in a documentary make-believe about the self, their presence in front of the camera sometimes illustrates certain important events, and other times transforms into something else, a state of grace fundamental to cinema, caught in between past and present, fictional and non-fictional — a sentimental history reenacted speculatively.  One yesterday night, at the cruising spot from the edge of a forest, two men watch each other with desire and hesitation – lovers playing strangers, they unlikely embrace each other, holding, for a moment outside the illusion, their entire open history. (Călin Boto)