25-09-2018

FESTIVALS: The 36th Golden Rose Film Festival Announces Lineup

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    VARNA: A total of 17 feature films and 21 short films will be screened in the official national competition of the 36th Golden Rose National Film Festival (27 September-4 October 2018). Twelve of the feature films are supported with public funding, while five are independent projects.

    Four feature films are coproductions with Bulgarian majority participation and one is a Bulgarian minority coproduction. Only one title is entirely backed by the Bulgarian National Television. Five of them are debut films.

    For the first time the Golden Rose NFF has a focus on the Balkans with seven titles from the region. One of them, Gjorce Stavreski’s The Secret Ingredient (coproduced by Macedonia’s Fragment Film and Greece’s Graal S.A.) will open the festival. Two other films from this programme are coproduced by Bulgarian companies: RFF International is involved in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree (along with Zeyno Film, Memento Films Production, Detail Film, Sisters and Brother Mitevski,, 2006 Produkcija Sarajevo, Film i Vast and Chimney Pot), while Agitprop is involved in Adina Pintilie’s Touch Me Not along with Manekino Film, Rohfilm, Pink and Les Films de l’Étranger.

    For the second time after 2014 the main jury will include foreign members: German producer Rudi Teichmann and Heleen Gerritsen from goEast Festival, along three Bulgarians - director Ilian Djevelekov, Warsaw based DoP Wojciech Todorow and famous stage actress/director Diana Dobreva, who is head of the jury.

    This year the Golden Rose National Film Festival is organised by the Festival and Congress Center–Varna with the support of the Bulgarian National Film Center and the Varna municipality in partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the Bulgarian National Television.

    Feature Film Competition:

    8’19” (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Peter Valchanov, Lubomir Mladenov, Theodor Ushev, Nadejda Koseva, Vladimir Lyutskanov, Kristina Grozeva
    Produced by the Bulgarian National Television

    Ága (Bulgaria, Germany, France)
    Directed by Milko Lazarov
    Produced by Red Carpet
    Coproduced by 42Film, Arizona Films Productions, the Bulgarian National Television and ZDF/Arte
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, the French CNC, German MDM, Institut Français

    The Infinite Garden (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Galin Stoev
    Produced by Agitprop
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, Creative Europe – MEDIA

    This Time Is Ours (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Peter Popzlatev
    Produced by Post Scriptum 2
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

    Heights (Bulgaria, Macedonia)
    Directed by Victor Bojinov
    Produced by Serpentine Ltd, Bulfilm Ltd., Bulgarian National Television, Nu Boyana
    Coproduced by Dream Factory Ltd.
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, Eurimages

    Away from the Shore (Bulgaria, Ukraine)
    Directed by Kostadin Bonev
    Produced by Trivium Films
    Coproduced by Odessa Film Company
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

    Living Chimneys (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Radoslav Spasov
    Produced by Dream Team Films
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

    Irina (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Nadejda Koseva
    Produced by Art Fest
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center, Creative Europe – MEDIA, SEE Cinema Network, ScripTeast

    A Ship in a Room (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Lyubomir Mladenov
    Produced by Front Film
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

    My Sister’s Silence (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Kiran Kolarov
    Produced by Kolar – Kiran Kolarov
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

    All She Wrote (Bulgaria, USA)
    Directed by Niki Iliev
    Produced by Euro Dialogue Productions
    Coproduced by bTV Studios, J.T.R. Entertainment (USA)

    Reviewing Inner Spaces (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Maxim Genchev
    Produced by gMaxFilm
    Coproduced by Amrita Art

    Attraction (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Martin Makariev
    Produced by Spirit Production House
    Coproduced by Indiefilm
    Supported by NOVA Television

    Smart Christmas (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Maria Veselinova
    Produced by Juli Maruli Entertaiment
    Coproduced by Vetrogon BG
    Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

    The Runaway Smartphone (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Maxim Genchev
    Produced by Amrita Art

    Transgression (Bulgaria)
    Directed by Val Todorov
    Produced by Demiurgia

    Miracle (Lithuania, Bulgaria, Poland)
    Directed by Eglė Vertelytė
    Produced by In Script
    Coproduced by Geopoly, Orka
    Supported by the Lithuanian Film Centre, the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Polish Film Institute, Eurimages, Creative Europe – MEDIA