22-05-2012

FNE at Cannes IFF 2012: Bulgarian Cinema in Cannes

By Bulgarian National Film Center

    CANNES: Bulgarian film is represented in Cannes this year with the doc Sofia's Last Ambulance screening in the Critic's Week as well as four films screening in the market and Bulgarian director Stephan Komandarev as a Producer on the Move. Drop by and see them at the South East Europe stand.

    CRITICS WEEK

    SOFIA'S LAST AMBULANCE

    Bulgaria, Germany, Croatia, 2012, Documentary; 75 min, HD

    Director: Ilian Metev

    Script: 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?

    MARKET SCREENINGS

    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