Corridor #8

Original movie title:
CORRIDOR #8
Country:        
Bugarska, 2008., 74'
Director:
Boris Despodov

Awards:
Berlin International Film Festival 2008. - Ecumenical Jury Award

 

Summary:

This is not an on the road movie.

‘corridor #8’ is a mosaic film combining fragments from everyday lives of the characters living along a non-existent balkan road. The road passes through bulgaria, macedonia and albania. At the same time, corridor #8 is a huge eu infrastructural project meant to link the black and the adriatic seas, already a decade in the planning.

Along the way you’ll meet a cowboy train, a railway tunnel used for growing mushrooms, an international businessman building an oil pipeline, a local politician dreaming of becoming the next american president, a pimp working for kfor soldiers and even a song dedicated to corridor #8. And all that is a part of this respected documentary that warns us all about all absurdities of balcan’s sensibility.

Biography

Boris despodov, the director and screenwriter, was born in 1973 in sofia, bulgaria. He graduated from the national academy of fine arts in sofia. Award winning animator, ‘corridor #8’ is his first feature-length film.

13.07., SUNDAY, 17.00, RUŽIČKA'S HOUSE

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