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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.

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The third completed short is "Fragile", a work of Lyubomir Mladenov ("Hunting Park", "Ship in a Room"). The film tells the story of a girl whose dream we enter intimately. But it is not an unreal phantasmagoria: It's a dream-slash-test in which the heroine faces her fears which in real world she would rather suppress. In thematic and stylistic terms, it's a work of magical realism, and the director has said it was his first time ever to immerse himself into this type of aesthetics.

Lyubomir Mladenov graduated from the Sofia Academy of Arts and from the National Actors Academy in Sofia. He is the director of the films “34” (short film), “Hunting Park” (feature film debut), and “Vitosha” (documentary). His latest film is “A Ship in a Room”, which was presented - in 2017, in competition at the Tokyo Film Festival, among other film forums.

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