Bulgarian Film 'Eastern Plays' Wins Trieste Festival Award

Lifestyle | January 29, 2010, Friday // 13:04|  views

A scene from "Eastern Plays" showing the two main characters, the brothers Hristo and Georgi. Photo by BGNES

The Bulgarian film "Eastern Plays", directed by Kamen Kalev, has won the CEI award at this year’s International Film Festival in Trieste, Italy.

The central European Initiative award was made for “the film that best interprets the contemporary reality and dialogue between cultures”.

The film was praised for its "ability to tell a meaningful and valuable story that is emblematic of the problems associated with globalization, while it strikes with a unique character of the main characters and their humanity," the jury announced.

This was the 21st edition of the Trieste Film Festival, held between January 21 and 28. It is regarded as the leading Italian event on Central and Eastern Europe cinema.

Kamen Kalev was born in Plovdiv, Bulhgaria in 1975. He studied film making in Paris, and has directed and produced several award-winning short movies. He has also produced more than 60 commercials and music videos.

This film "Eastern Plays" also won awards for best director and best actor at the Tokyo Film Festival in October 2009. Hristo Hristov, the winning actor, sadly died shortly after the completion of shooting. The film is dedicated to him, a lifelong friend of Kalev.

"Eastern Plays" is about two brothers who had lost all contact and were suddenly brought together when they took opposite sides in a racist beating between neo-Nazis and a Turkish family. Both have personal dilemmas to resolve, and realize that only by reuniting would they both be able to assess what they really wanted from life.

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Tags: Bulgaria, Plovdiv, Tokyo, Trieste, film award, Eastern Plays, Hristo Hristov, Kamen Kalev

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