BULGARIA
2011 / WORLD PREMIERE
1h28 / In Bulgarian
Synopsis
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with the fleeting Avé.
director: Konstantin Bojanov
screenplay: Konstantin Bojanov, Arnold Barkus
cinematography: Nenad Boroevich, Radoslav Gotchev
editing: Stela Georgieva
sound: Momchil Bozhkov, Tom Paul
production design: Samuil Ganev
musique: Tom Paul, Susan Jacobs, Jackie Mulhearn
cast:
Anjela Nedyalkova
Ovanes Torosyan
Martin Brambach
Svetlana Yancheva
Nikolay Urumov
Elena Rainova
Krasimir Dokov
Iossif Sarchadzhiev
Bruno S.
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Biography
Konstantin Bojanov
Bulgarian nationality. Born in 1968 in Bulgaria.
Filmography
2011 AVÉ
2010 RED HOOK
2005 INVISIBLE
2004 UN PEU MOINS
2002 3001
2001 LEMON IS LEMON
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production
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Born in 1968, Konstantin Bojanov took a long time becoming a young filmmaker and signing his first fiction feature film, Avé. Meanwhile, he did work: after studying cinema and sculpture in Bulgaria, then in the Royal College of Art in London, he made a name for himself as an artist in the arena of modern art. His settings have been exposed in Zurich, Shangaï, Sofia and Los Angeles. His film work is less abstract, more observing: his first documentary, Invisible, brings this expatriate in New York back to Bulgaria, to patiently and uncompromisingly follow the life of six heroin addicts. The film is hard to take: over the three years during which Bojanov follows them, the drug addicts declaim on screen their daily life, their addiction, the squalid details of their lives. One is consequently surprised at the outward softness of Avé, which Bojanov scattered with familiar details (art studies, youngsters). In this road movie he imposes his sense of space, like someone with a traveling back-ground. Avé shows two teenagers leaving, stopping, and staying on the spot to start afresh. Each step takes us away from the usual miserabilist clichés on Bulgaria and post-communist Eastern Europe. A subtle and sometimes harsh initiation, Avé’s main surprise comes from its final teaching: to reinvent oneself, to put up with the hardship of life by all means. Truth does not matter provided the story is beautiful. Bojanov’s last exhibition in Los Angeles in 2010 was called Fears, Obsessions and Dedications : Avé, is a little bit of all this and a lot of dedication for these characters with a subtle crack.
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