French film-maker Eric Baudelaire documents his friendship with a former diplomat from Abkhazia in a evocative, plucky essay-filmThis rarefied but affecting documentary, very much in the Chris Marker essay-film tradition, is about nationhood, memory and the relationship between two friends – French film-maker Eric Baudelaire and subject-narrator Maxim Gvinjia, the former minister of foreign affairs for Abkhazia.