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Bulgaria-Germany, 2024, 96′, color, documentary

Director - Eliza Petkova

Script - Eliza Petkova

Camera - Constanze Schmitt

Music - Adam Goodwin, Anil Eraslan, Jung-Jae Kim, Lukas Akintaya, Shingo Masuda

Producer - Veselka Kiryakova

In a remote Bulgarian mountain village, six animals reveal the mysterious world of superstition. A cat is considered a vampire, a donkey is thought to be bewitched, and a dog is seen as a chicken hunter. Through sensitive observation, we witness the dwindling hopes of the village through the eyes of its four-legged inhabitants. Time seems to stand still, yet transience remains the only con-stant.

Program

19.03.2025
LUMIERE CINEMA - 20.30 часа
21.03.2025
EURO CINEMA - 20.30 часа

Elitsa Petkova

Elitsa was born in 1983 in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. After completing an MA in Philosophy and Modern Japanese at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, she worked as a freelance filmmaker in Berlin, where she first chose to focus on documentary films. In 2011, she joins the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie (DFFB) to study directing. She has made a variety of films, which have been shown at various festivals. In 2015, her short Absent was nominated at the Festival de Cannes for the Cinéfondation. XXX is her first feature film

FILMOGRAPHY

2010 Stille Post – doc.
2011 Willkommen Zuhause – doc.
2012 Im Kreis – doc. short
2013 Mein Sohn – doc. short
2014 Zur Rechten Zeit – short
2014 Absent (Abwasend) – short
2015 Umbilical Cord (Nabelschnur) – short
2015 Harmonia – short
2016 XXX

2019 A Fish Swimming Upside Down