“They want each other but they would never be intimate in that way, until [Irakli] sort of acknowledges what happened and that that’s okay with him. Which gets to the Robyn “Honey” scene when [Merab] does the dance and he’s comfortable in showing him that he really wants him, and that’s when they kiss the first time.”

— Levan Akin, writer and director of And Then We Danced (2019) on withholding the first kiss