Matt Shally

Against the backdrop of a sprawling half-constructed tower block in Tbilisi, Viktor, a local celebrity drag queen, and Tarzan, a drifting teenager, search for fleeting possibilities of intimacy in the vestiges of a collapsing world. Playing out meager tasks of survival in a restricted not so far future, Viktor and Tarzan slowly come to understand their environment as a vestibule of the afterlife.

Written and directed by LA-based filmmaker Jordan Blady, Heist! is a supernatural adventure inspired by French caper films of the early 1970s, especially Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge. Dubbed in French, Heist! is three minutes of stylish comedy that never takes itself too seriously.

Matt Shally, an actor/drag performer/activist hosts the Tbilisi's first live drag competition show and discusses the state of queerness in Georgia.