Iman and Eva are two teenagers living in Pankisi, a remote region in Georgia, in families that have recently converted to Wahhabism, an ultraconservative Islamic movement. Their fathers have willingly joined the jihadist cause in Syria, where they are currently fighting, while the girls are being raised in an environment where the only people who still seem to connect emotionally with others are the elderly and the helpless mothers. As their parents’ religion doesn’t allow its followers to take delight in any of the pleasures this life has to offer, the girls are left with very few emotional and intellectual outlets in such a complicated stage of their development. The film class held by director Mari Gulbiani, where they are given the chance to watch humanist classic films — such as “The 400 Blows," “Life is Beautiful,” or Chaplin’s comedies —, is the one place where they can explore the world, life and emotions of other people from all kinds of environments, times and countries which they will most likely never come into direct contact with. At the same time, it puts at their disposal the tools to carry through their own personal investigations, as the camera helps them to understand more about the world around them, but also about their own dreams and aspirations, which are worth fighting for. It would seem that at least one of them will make it. (Andrei Rus)