When Light Behaves Differently Towards Time

Filmmaker Jan Willem van Dam made a film in Georgia following the Revolution of the Roses in 2003 on the borderline of fiction and documentary The film is based on the life and dreams of Nini Sardlishvili a sixteenyearold Georgian girl Nini tells about her life and dreams speaks with two elderly women about past and future and walks among the ruins of a huge burntout Soviet archive She plays herself in the film just like the other protagonist Domestic Intelligence agent Gocha Ovashvili He travels across the country in response to a remarkable appeal by a Georgian minister appearing in a newscast to ask people if they are criminals During this futile and absurd quest he meets mainly aged Georgians including a shepherd and two monks and admires the scenery