Duet

7 Teams, 7 Films, 7 Master Classes

The teams of seven Bulgarian contemporary film directors will create seven short films inspired by and dedicated to Plovdiv. They are all part of the "KINOPLOVDIV" project, a highlight in the programme of Plovdiv – European Capital of Culture. When finished, the seven works will be pieced together into a feature-length film omnibus, which will be premiered in April 2019. In 2018 a series of master classes, workshop discussions and meetings with audiences unveiled fascinating details of the art of filmmaking.

Duet

Bibi's best and actually only friend, Teo, lives on the roof. The two are inseparable, which prevents Bibi from focusing on school and her cello practices. However, their carefree existence is about to be disrupted by a teenage guitarist who ran away from home and took shelter on the same roof.

Screenplay: Kristina GROZEVA and Petar VALCHANOV

Directed by: Kristina GROZEVA and Petar VALCHANOV

Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva work together. They are members of the European Film Academy, co-script writers and co-directors of the short film “Jump”, which was nominated for the European Film Awards in 2013 and has earned, among other distinctions, the Grand Prix of the International Short Film Festival in Brussels. “Lesson” is their first feature film, which has been awarded more than 30 prizes from international festivals in San Sebastian, Tokyo, Monterey, Warsaw, Gothenburg, Thessaloniki and Sofia, among other cinema forums. Their second film, “Glory”, repeated the success of “Lesson” and was the Bulgarian foreign language Oscar nomination for 2017.

KINOPLOVDIV is a project of the Screening Emotions production house. Find more about the films and the directors on Facebook.