CALL ME SHAKESPEARE BY VALERI YORDANOV
Produced by Chouchkov Brothers.
Funded by Bulgarian National Film Center, Creative Europe Media
Supported by ScripTeast Programme
Drama: | DCP | 110 min
Bulgaria
SYNOPSIS:
What happens to a boy of seventeen who has two great talents - theatre and fist-fighting - and has to make his choice as to which of them should prevail in his life and help him save the life of his closest friend? When you are seventeen, you think you know everything; only later you realize that you don’t want to, and you don't have to know all that.
Written and directed by Valeri Yordanov
Producers: Borislav Chouchkov, Viktor Chouchkov
ABOUT DIRECTOR:
Valery Yordanov is born in 1974, Sofia. Studied asting in Sofia’s National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. His theatre track record includes more than 50 stage performances. He’s one of the most prominent actors in Bulgaria, played leading parts in award winning Bulgarian films such as Crayfish; Faith, love & Whisky and more than 20 other feature films.
His directoral debut Sneakers, 2011 has won a Special Mentioning at the 33th Moscow FF, also the film has participated in the Competition Program at 46th Karlovy Vary in 2011 and was the official Bulgarian entry for the foreign language category for Oscars 2013.
THE WINDSEEKER 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.
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.
LIVING MAN BY OLEG NOVKOVIC
DIRECTOR: OLEG NOVKOVIC
PRODUCER: SALT PRODUCTIONS (SERBIA), OSTLICHT FILMPRODUKTION (GERMANY), CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS (BULGARIA)
DRAMA/ SERBIA/ GERMANY/ BULGARIA/ 100'
SYNOPSIS:
This is a story about a man who realizes one day that his daughter is pregnant and that his son is not his. Deeply disappointed, he decides to change things, abandon home and continue where he ceased, a long time ago, with free, unbridled, and true life. In nocturnal euphoria caused by this newly found freedom, the man has a heart-attack and dies.
Then he awakes. Happy as a small child, he goes on seeking forgiveness from those he sinned. He returns to his children and wife. The man decides to accept his life and to give it to others.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:
Oleg Novkovic was born in Belgrade in 1968. He is one of the most significant Serbian directors. He has directed not only a multitude of feature films as well as documentaries, but also theater plays. He is a lecturer of Film Directing in the Faculty of Dramatic Arts.
CALL ME SHAKESPEARE
THE WINDSEEKER
STRAHINJA
DREAMER
LIVING MAN
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