Bulgarian documentary and feature film week: “The Father”

Free tickets can be found here

8th of November, 7 pm

Bulgarian Embassy halls

The Bulgarian Cultural Institute London cordially invites you to the screening of the new Bulgarian film “The Father” by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov.

“The Father”

Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

Producer: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Konstantina Stavrianou, Irini Vougioukalou

Screenplay by: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Decho Taralezhkov

Cast: Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov

Bulgaria-Greece-Italy

2019

90min

Prod Co Abraxas Film

The film is in Bulgarian language with English subtitles

Based on a real-life event, writer-directors Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov became fascinated by how a ‘completely rational person can fall for the supernatural’. After the phone call from his dead wife, Vasil (Ivan Savov) contacts a well-known psychic and attempts to locate his wife’s aura by sleeping in the woods. His son Pavel – a brilliant serio-comic performance by Ivan Barnev – is forced to accompany him on his quixotic journey while attempting to bring him to his senses. The contrasts between the artist-dissident father and mild mannered son operate on several levels, providing an intimate take on the absurdities of everyday life, pointing to social and personal divisions both past and present.