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Bulgarian film wins Grand Jury Prize at Angers festival
Itso and Georgi, left to right, in the Bulgarian film Eastern Plays
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On January 31, the closing night of the 22nd Festival Premier Plans d'Angers, France, the Bulgarian film Eastern Plays was awarded the Grand Jury Prize.
The film's director Kamen Kalev will share the accolade with Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, who won with their film La Pivellina. The prize is the movie's second honour in less than a week after it was given the Central European Initiative award on the closing day of the Trieste International Film Festival on January 28 2010.
The prize at Angers includes, among others, support for distribution of the film in France.
Eastern Plays, a Bulgarian-Swiss co-production, is Kalev's feature film debut.
The film is about Georgi and Itso, two estranged brothers. Georgi, the younger brother, has become involved with a racist group and has perpetrated acts of violence. The elder brother becomes a witness to one of these racist attacks and the hero of a Turkish family that was one of its victims.
Georgi, who is asked to become more involved in the movement, begins to ask himself some moral questions, while Itso wonders if the pretty Turkish girl he saved could become his ticket out of his sad life in Sofia.
Eastern Plays premiered in Sofia on January 11 2010 and opened the Sofia Film Fest for Students initiative in Varna on January 29.
The film will take part in the international competition of the Sofia Film Fest in March 2010.
The film's director Kamen Kalev will share the accolade with Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel, who won with their film La Pivellina. The prize is the movie's second honour in less than a week after it was given the Central European Initiative award on the closing day of the Trieste International Film Festival on January 28 2010.
The prize at Angers includes, among others, support for distribution of the film in France.
Eastern Plays, a Bulgarian-Swiss co-production, is Kalev's feature film debut.
The film is about Georgi and Itso, two estranged brothers. Georgi, the younger brother, has become involved with a racist group and has perpetrated acts of violence. The elder brother becomes a witness to one of these racist attacks and the hero of a Turkish family that was one of its victims.
Georgi, who is asked to become more involved in the movement, begins to ask himself some moral questions, while Itso wonders if the pretty Turkish girl he saved could become his ticket out of his sad life in Sofia.
Eastern Plays premiered in Sofia on January 11 2010 and opened the Sofia Film Fest for Students initiative in Varna on January 29.
The film will take part in the international competition of the Sofia Film Fest in March 2010.
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