HOLE IN THE WALL BY VIKTOR CHOUCHKOV

Produced by Pope Productions (Canada) in co-production with Chouchkov Brothers.

 

Drama: | DCP | 120 min

Canada, Bulgaria

 

 

SYNOPSIS:

A refugee from Communist Bulgaria arriving in Newfoundland in 1989 carrying state secrets linking the KGB to the killings of dissidents is pursued by Russian agents.

 

Scriptwriter: ED Riche

Director: Viktor Chouchkov

 

Producer: Paul Pope

Co-producers: Borislav Chouchkov

 

ABOUT DIRECTOR:

Viktor Chouchkov Jr. got a master’s degree in film directing from the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts school in Sofia. Before that he graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Sofia. He has directed short films, numerous music videos, documentaries, Tv commercials.

In 2003 together with his brother Borislav, he established the production company CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS with the main goal to produce feature films.

His first feature TILT was awarded for Best debut at the Raindance IFF, James Lyon award for Best editing at Woodstock IFF, Best director at the California Independent FF and another international and national awards. TILT has been in competition and in the official selection of Festivals such as Seattle IFF, Santa Barbara IFF, Palm Springs IFF, Jerusalim IFF, Glasgow FF, Goteborg IFF, Montreal IFF, Transilvania IFF etc. TILT was the Bulgarian Oscar entry.

 

 

 

THE WIND SEEKER BY MIHAI SOFRONEA

Produced by Libra Film, Romania

Co-produced by Chouchkov Brothers, Bulgaria

 

Funded by: CNC Romania, Media Development Fund, Bulgarian National Film Center

 

Drama /DCP/ 110 min.

Romania / Bulgaria

 

SYNOPSIS:

Radu is running away from death, as he had been running away from life, living in a continuous inertia. The waiting for death will transform itself into the forgetting of it. And in the forgetting of death Radu will discover the meaning of life..

 

Written and directed by: Mihai Sofronea

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Mihai SOFRONEA graduated the University of Theatre and Cinema of Bucharest (UNATC), departure point for so many „New Romanian Wave” cinema artists. He worked along the years as a first assistant director for various prestigious feature films (especially with C. Porumboiu), TV series, promo and videos. He now directs for cinema, television and publicity. In 2011 he co-founded the independent production company DANUBIUS FILM PRODUCTION, which allowed him to produce the short films Waiting for the Sunrise (Best Short Film at Cottbus IFF 2011) and The Tree (2014). The Wind Seeker is his first feature.

 

 

STRAHINJA BY STEFAN ARSENIJEVIC

Produced by: Art and Popcorn Motion Pictures (Serbia)

Co-produced by: Focus Fox (Hungary), Les Films Fauves (Luxembourg ), Surprise Alley (France), Chouchkov Brothers ( Bulgaria)

 

Funded by: Serbian Film Center, Creative Europe Media Slate, Film Fund Luxembourg, CNC, Bulgarian National Film Center

 

Drama /DCP/ 110 min.

SERBIA/ HUNGARY / LUXEMBOURG / FRANCE / BULGARIA

 

SYNOPSIS:

Strahinja, a 22-year-old refugee from Ghana, does his best to integrate in Serbia, works hard to get the asylum, volunteers in Red Cross, tries to make money in the black market, struggles to survive in the Refugee Camp. But his greatest fight is to win back the woman he loves.

 

Written by: Stefan Arsenijevic, Bojan Vuletic

Directed by: Stefan Arsenijevic

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Stefan Arsenijevic is born in Belgrade in 1977.Graduated Film and TV Directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, where he now teaches film directing at the master studies.

For his short films won over 30 national and international awards, including Golden Bear at Berlinale, European Film Academy Award and nomination for the Oscar. His first feature "Love and Other Crimes" premiered at Berlinale in 2008 and won several awards at the international festivals.

 

 

 

WILLOW BY MILCHO MANCHEVSKI’S

Produced by Sektor Film, Macedonia

Co-produced by: Elemag Pictures, Germany / Chouchkov Brothers, Bulgaria

 

Funded by: Macedonian Film Agency, Bulgarian National Film Center

 

Drama/DCP/ 110 min.

MACEDONIA / GERMANY / BULGARIA

 

Written and directed by Milcho Manchevski

 

Producers: Vladimir Anastasov, Angela Nestorovska

Co-produced by: Tanja Georgieva, Borislav Chouchkov

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Milcho Manchevski’s acclaimed  Before the Rain (1994) is considered “one of the greatest debut feature films in the history of cinema”. Manchevski’s work – which also includes the award-winning features Dust (2001), Shadows (2008), Mothers (2010), Bikini Moon (2017) and the award-winning short forms The End of Time (2017), Thursday (2013), Macedonia Timeless (2009) Tennessee (1992) and 1.73 (1984) and an episode of HBO’s The Wire (2002).

His work is part of the curricula at numerous universities and is the subject of many essays and books.

 

 

 

DREAMER BY VLADIMIR TODOROV

Produced by Chouchkov Brothers.

 

Supported by Bulgarian National Film Center

 

ANIMATION / DCP/ 10 min.

BULGARIA

 

Writter, directer and animator: Vladimir Todorov

 

Producers: Viktor Chouchkov and Vladimir Todorov

 

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Vladimir Todorov is a film concept artist, author and illustrator with over twenty five years of experience in the film industry. He has worked for almost all major film studios like Warner Bros, Sony Pictures, Universal, Paramount, Fox, Disney, on features like “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”, “Stuart Little 1&2”, “The Polar Express”, “ A Christmas Carol”, “Alice in Wonderland” and many others.