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Agnieszka Holland is headed to the Vatican for a screening of her migrant crisis drama Green Border, following its selection for its 27th Tertio Millenio Film Festival in November. The Polish director will also receive the festival’s Special Fuoricampo Prize in the Vatican Library on November 13, ahead of the screening in the presence of …

Agnieska Holland's Migrant Drama ‘Green Border’ Set For Vatican Screening & Fuoricampo Prize

16/05/2022 - The drama explores the passage of time and the consequences of memory through the eyes of a young man

16/05/2022 - The drama explores the passage of time and the consequences of memory through the eyes of a young man

Julian Vergov), an angry man in his fifties who is about to emigrate to Germany only a day after the end of his probation sentence, which he was given for beating up the new husband of his ex-wife ( Stefka Yanorova). His hot temper seems to have doomed him to a string of successive failures, and the ship for achieving something in life has definitely sailed. Except the emigration one. Germany – a symbol of order and a stereotypical utopian destination for many Eastern Europeans – embodies a...

The Sofia International Film Festival is poised to have an adventurous 25th anniversary German Lessons by Pavel Vesnakov One can only imagine what it must be like to be on the team of the Sofia International Film Festival. One year after the 2020 edition was cancelled only days before it was supposed to begin, the festival again faces an enormous amount of uncertainty, which must have been especially daunting given the fact that the 25 th edition should have been a celebratory one. But one can ...

Yana Marinova and Luiza Grigorova-Makariev in Wildlings by Martin Makariev SOFIA: Critical for culture and film worldwide, the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was equally difficult for the film industry in Bulgaria. The first severe restrictions of social and cultural life came after the vote of the Bulgarian Parliament in favour of a state of emergency from 13 March 2020, imposing a lockdown for a month. All culture and entertainment venues including cinemas were obliged to close. As a result, only ...

SOFIA: Stefan Kitanov, the director of the Sofia International Film Fest, announced that the 25th anniversary edition will still take place in the context of the ongoing pandemic, but will be split into two parts. The first part is to take place 11-31 March 2021 and a second part will be announced as a special edition later during the year. The festival will be held both physically and online in an extended time frame. The Bulgarian government authorised theatres to operate at 30% of their capa...