CRITICS WEEK
SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE
Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, 2012, Documentary; 75 min, HD
Director: Ilian Metev
Cinematography: Ilian Metev
Cast: Dr. Krassimir Yordanov, Mila Mikhailova, Plamen Slavkov
Production: SIA Ltd., Sutor Kolonko, Nukleus Film, Chaconna Films
With the support of: Bulgarian National Film Center, National Audiovisual Center/Croatia, NRW, WDR, ARTE
Contacts: SIA Ltd., 48, Shipka Str., 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
tel.: + 359 2 946 38 65, fax: + 359 2 846 73 84, Dimitar Gochev - cell: + 359 888 466 712, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
World Sales Agent
Films Boutique, Germany
In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve 2 million people, Krassi, Mila and Plamen are our unlikely heroes: chain-smoking, filled with humour and relentlessly saving lives against all odds. Yet, the strain of a broken system is taking its toll. How long can they keep on fixing society's injured until they loose their empathy?
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I AM YOU
Feature; Completed; Bulgaria, 2012, 119 min, DСP, 35 mm
Director: Peter Popzlatev
Script: Vladimir Ganev, Stefan Kospartov, Mirela Ivanova, based on the novels "A Novel without a Title" by Dimiter Dimov and "Adriana" by Teodora Dimova
Cinematography: Emil Christov
Music: Kalin Nikolov
Cast: Janet Spasova, Irmen Chichikova, Miliana Lenak, Deyan Donkov, Zakhari Bakharov, Ovanes Torosyan
Production: Post Scriptum 2, BNT
With the support of: Bulgarian National Film Center
Contacts: Post Scriptum 2, 9, 6th September Str., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Peter Popzlatev - cell: + 359 898 599 364, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Through two unique female personas, the film creates a metaphysical intention where the present seems repeatable as the temptations before the human soul are always the same. But the choice can only be made only after past experiences are passed on and shared with a similar soul in the present. This is the relationship between the fatal Adriana from 1938 and the innocent Yura from 2008.
Screening: Gray 4 / May 23rd, 13:30
KRAPETZ
First Feature; Completed; Bulgaria, 2012, 110 min, HD
Director: Kiril Stankov
Script: Kiril Stankov
Cinematography: Rali Ralchev
Music: Vasko The Patch
Cast: Kasiel Noah Asher, Paraskeva Djukelova, Yana Titova, Ovanes Torosyan, Filip Avramov
Production: Gala Film, Sofilm, BNT
With the support of: Bulgarian National Film Center, Media Programme, Cinelink, Sarajevo IFF, Sofia Meetings
Contacts: Gala Film; 1 B, Strumitsa Str., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
tel.: + 359 2 981 42 09, fax: + 359 2 981 29 71
cell: + 359 888 451 632, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dju (39) meets her old friend Dana (40), who has just returned to Bulgaria after being abroad for a long time. They both head to the sea. On the road they meet Lily (30), a friend of Dju, who joins them.
In Krapetz, the Northmost village at the Black Sea coast, they find the peace and harmony they are looking for. But soon this idyll comes to an end. Past conflicts are rekindled. The women discover things they were hiding from each other.
One morning they find an Ukrainian, Natasha (27) wounded while escaping from a human trafficking gang. The villagers are unwillining to be involved. Lily decides to drive Natasha to the nearest town, but the traffickers stop the car, beat lily and capture Natasha.
Dana, Dju and Lily are determined to get back the little they have - their human dignity. at night they manage to find both Natahsa and their own desire for freedom and life.
Screening: Palais E / May 21st, 18:00
ZINCOGRAPH
Feature; Postproduction; Bulgaria, 2012, 107 min, 35 mm
Director: Emil Christov
Script: Vladislav Todorov
Cinematography: Krum Rodriguez
Cast: Rushi Vidinliev, Irena Milyankova, Deyan Donkov, Russi Chanev, Hristo Garbov, Samuel Fintzi
Production: Peripeteia, BNT, Nu Boyana Film Studios
With the support of: Bulgarian National Film Center
Contacts: Peripeteia, 1700 Sofia, 19A Ivan Bagrianov Str., Apt.10
tel: +359 2 868 40 98, + 1 609 919 9165
e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.peripeteiafilms.com
A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of unsuspecting intellectuals to spy on each other. After the fall of communism he uses his secret archive to wreak havoc on the government. The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers. This is a story without innocents. Secret policing reveals its dark nature not only in its nauseating cruelties, but most suggestively in its deviant pleasures.
Awards:, Balkan Fund Award, Thessalonica - 2008; Cinelink Restart Award, Sarajevo - 2009; Official Selection at L'Atelier du Festival, Cannes - 2010
Screening: Gray 4 / May 22nd, 09:30
STOICHKOV
Documentary; Completed; Bulgaria, 2012, 98 min, Digital Beta;
Director: Borislav Kolev
Script: Borislav Kolev
Cinematography: Grigor Kumitski
Cast: With the special appearance of Hristo Stoichkov
Production: Camera Ltd., BNT, Spectacle Ltd, Koh-i-Noor Bulgaria
With the support of: Bulgarian National Film Center Bulgarian Football Union
Contacts: Camera Ltd., 48, Shipka Str., 1504 Sofia, Bulgaria
tel.: + 359 2 946 38 65, fax: + 359 2 846 73 84, Lora Chenakova - cell: + 0889 932 302, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.camera.bg
World Sales Agent
Autlook Filmsales GmbH, Austria
A film about the phenomenal football career and the hectic life of Hristo Stoichkov, the most renowned Bulgarian worldwide.
A dramatic documentary about both the dark and the bright sides of the genius; about the ups and downs of a Bulgarian winner, who is a last-ditcher by nature; about the mission to be a leader, taking the lead in crucial moments; about the real events and the myths; about national self-confidence and national nihilism. This film is a confession with no awkward questions, evasive answers or hidden truths. The work is as relentless in its straightforwardness as Stoichkov's lethal left-footed shot.
Screening: Gray 4 / May 23rd, 15:40
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PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE
Stephan Komandarev
Argo Film Ltd., Bulgaria
selected by Bulgarian National Film Center,
a member of EFP
Biography
Stephan Komandarev graduated with a degree in Film & TV Directing at the New Bulgarian University in 1998 and founded his production company Argo Film a year later. His feature debut Dog's Home premiered at the Berlinale's Forum in 2001, while his second fiction feature The World Is Big And Salvation Lurks Around The Corner won over 35 festival prizes and was
shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2009. Stephan has also directed produced several documentaries including Alphabet Of Hope, The Town of Badante Women and Home For Someone Else. He is currently working on the development of a new feature project The Judgement (www.thejudgementmovie.bg) which he pitched at the Sofia Meetings and also took to the script workshops of ScripTeast and the Mediterranean Film Institute in 2009-2010. With this project, Stephan took part in EAVE in 2011.
Latest project as director and producer:
The Judgement, 2013, (in pre-production)
Writers: Marin Damyanov, Emil Spahiski, Stephan Komandarev
Selected Films as director and producer:
Home For Someone Else, 2012, (documentary)
The Town of Badante Women, 2009, (documentary)
Alphabet of Hope, 2003, (documentary)
Selected Films as director:
The World Is Big And Salvation Lurks Around The Corner, 2008 - shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2009
Bread Over The Fence, 2002, (documentary)
Dog's Home, 2000
Contacts: Yantra Str. 5, entr. B, 1124 Sofia, Bulgaria
cell: + 359 878 308 238, fax: + 359 2 983 52 05
e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., www.argofilm.eu
