GLORY

Director - Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

Script - Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Decho Taralezhkov

Camera - Krum Rodriguez

Cast - Margita Gosheva, Stefan Denolyubov, Kitodar Todorov, Milko Lazarov, Georgi Stamenov, Ivan Savov, Mira Iskarova, Hristofor Nedkov

Producers - Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov

Production - Abraxas Film

Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker finds millions of leva on the train tracks. He decides to turn the entire amount over to the police, and the state rewards him with a new wristwatch, but soon the new watch stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov’s old watch. And here starts his desperate struggle to get his old watch back, as well as his dignity.

“We are interested in these social themes; themes about the relationship between people. We like to make human films, for human beings, that show how these human beings exist in the reality; whether a political or maybe another other reality, a social reality, focusing on how they are dealing with all these things which happened to them.

The Lesson is the first film of three, Slava is the second one. The inspiration came from a newspaper titles. That’s the base of this; there is a social element that is built in both stories, and there will be in the third one.“

Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov for FourThreeFilm.com

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Golden Rose ’16 – Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography Locarno ’16 – Don Quixote Award – Special Mention Gijón ’16 – Grand Prix Asturias – Best Film, Best Screenplay, FIPRESCI Prize Tirana ’17 - Best Feature Film, Media Award Sofia International Film Festival ’17 – Best Balkan Film, Film Critics with UBFM Award for Best Balkan Film Edinburgh ’17 - Best International Feature Film Fajr ’17 - Silver Simorgh

Program

26.03.2019
CINEMA HOUSE - 14.00 часа
05.03.2022
CINEMA HOUSE - 20.30 часа

Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov have been working together since they were students at Bulgaria’s NATFA. Their short film Jump was nominated for the best short film at EFA 2013 and received many awards from international and local festivals. The Lesson is their first feature film, awarded at San Sebastian, Tokyo, Warsaw, Goteborg, Thessaloniki, Sofia Film Fest and many other international film festivals. The world premier of their second feature film Glory was in Locarno 2016.

FILMOGRAPHY

Kristina Grozeva

2004 Toshka and Toshko (Toshka i Toshko) – short
2005 The Last Shepherdess (Poslednata pastirka) – short
2005 Game (Igra) – short
2008 Birds of God (Ptitsi bozhii) – short
2008 Zev
2008 Family Therapy (Semeyna terapiya) – къс. short (co-dir. with P. Valchanov)
2009 A Tale of Life (Pritcha za zhivota) – doc.
2010 Forced Landing (Avariyno katsane) (co-dir. with P. Valchanov)
2011 Samburu (co-dir. with P. Valchanov)
2012 Jump (Skok) – short (co-dir. with P. Valchanov)
2014 The Lesson (Urok) (co-dir. with P. Valchanov)
2016 Glory (Slava) (co-dir. with P. Valchanov)

Petar Valchanov

2004 Resurrection (Vazkresenie) – short
2005 Catched (Uloveni) – short
2008 Family Therapy (Semeyna terapiya) – short (co-dir. with K. Grozeva)
2010 Forced Landing (Avariyno katsane) (co-dir. with K. Grozeva)
2010-2011 Glass Home (Staklen dom) – TV series, 6 episodes
2011 House Arrest (Domashen arest) – TV series
2012 Chamber Mitrani (Kantora Mitrani) – TV series
2012 Where is Maggie (Kade e Magi) – TV series
2012 Jump (Skok) – short (co-dir. with K. Grozeva)
2013 Tree of Life (Darvoto na zhivota) – TV series, 2 episodes
2014 The Lesson (Urok) (co-dir. with K. Grozeva)
2016 Glory (Slava) (co-dir. with K. Grozeva)

GLORY

Bulgaria, 2016, 101′, color

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov