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Original Name: Bashtata
English Name: The Father
Year: 2019
Run Time: 87'
Language: Bulgarian
Type (Colour/ Black & White): Colour
Country: Bulgaria, Greece
Director: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Producer: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov, Konstantina Stavrianou, Irini Vougioukalou
Cast: Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov
Screenplay: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
Cinematographer: Krum Rodriguez
Editor: Petar Valchanov
Sound Designer: Ivan Andreev
Music Composer: Hristo Namliev
Costume Designer: Ivelina Mineva
Production Designer: Vanina Geleva
Production Company: Abraxas Film, Graal SA
World Sales: WIDE Management
World Sales Phone: +33 153 950 464
World Sales Email: infos@widemanagement.com
Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov are a writer-producer director couple based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Kristina and Petar’s short film debut Jump (2012) became the first Bulgarian film ever nominated for the European Film Award. Their independent feature debut The Lesson (2014) and its follow-up Glory (2016) went on to become two of the most acclaimed Bulgarian films of the 21st century. They are parts of the directors’ so-called Newspaper Clippings Trilogy of stories inspired by media sensations depicting the absurdity of life in post-communist Bulgaria. The final instalment, “Triumph”, is currently in development.
How do we deal with something as tragic as death? For someone, who has lived a blissful life of many years with a loving partner, the void is surely deep. The missing, the absence surely makes us go out of our ways and out of the box to find comfort.
A day after Valentina’s passing, her bereaved husband Vassil and son Pavel find out that she persistently keeps trying to call the neighbour on the phone. A sucker for the supernatural, Vassil sets out on a trip to meet a famous medium, forcing his estranged son Pavel to tag along and make sure his nutty old dad stays out of harm’s way. The unhinged journey that follows will make them face the guilt they feel towards the one they lost and rediscover their relationship.
