Ineke Smits

An alternative creation myth sheds new light on a highly topical question within a world on fire: what is a country?

Abkhazian artist Sipa Labakhua travels around his small, unknown native land, provoking audiences with his autobiographical one-man marionette show. Thus he collects the personal stories of Abkhazian nationalists, Russian hippies, Syrian repatriates and Orthodox believers. A road movie that sheds new light on a highly topical question in a world on fire: what is a country?