A drag queen and a drifting teenager live out bare life in a partially constructed apartment block in Tbilisi, finding it to be purgatory.

Cast & Crew
Producer(s): Felix Kalmenson, Ketevan Kipiani, Alexandre Jordania
Director: Felix Kalmenson
Script: Felix Kalmenson
Director of Photography: Zarina Kodzati
Production Design: Polina Zhuravkova
Music: Manana Menabde
Sound: Zakhar Semirkhanov
Editing: Sasha Putsyato
Cast: Matt Shally, Maqsime Rauch, Luka Chachxiani
Production: Kursha Film

Awards
Honorable Mention - Best Canadian Film, Vancouver IFF, 2023

Felix Kalmenson
Felix Kalmenson is an artist and filmmaker. Kalmenson is in an ongoing collaboration with Rouzbeh Akhbari under the name Pejvak. Pejvak and Kalmenson's independent films have screened internationally including at Mostra Sao Paulo IFF, Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Kasseler Dokfest, Doclisboa, L'Alternativa, Moscow International Experimental FF, Sharjah Film Platform, Images Festival, Kyiv International Short FF. They have been awarded the Prix George at the 24th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur for A Passage and the Trinity Square Video Award at Images Festival for A Mountain that Opens Like a Door.

Filmography
A House of Skin (doc., 2016), A Mountain that Opens Like a Door (doc., 2017), Weak Enough to Hear (doc, 2019), A Passage (short, 2019), Threshold (2020), This World Does Not Fit into My Eyes (short, 2023), Shokouk (short, 2023), Gamodi (2023), Prelude to a Struggle (doc., 2024), Fortuna + (2024).