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Problemat s komarite i drugi istorii
Problemat s komarite i drugi istorii (El problema mosquito y otras historias)
Andrey Paounov
Bulgaria, 2007
35mm (S16mm). 100min. Color
Production: Martichka Bozhilova, [email protected], +359 2 983 14 11
Photography: Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov
Editor: Andrey Paounov, Orlin Rouevski
Screenplay: Lilia Topouzova, Andrey Paounov
 
Sinopsis: A small town on the banks of the Danube and its hopeful citizens are about to embark on a bright new journey. Massive rusty cranes, foreign investors, and the joyful chants of cheerleaders carry the dream of a great nuclear future. Disturbed only by gigantic stinging mosquitoes, the townsfolk celebrate the atomic hurray by engraving the nuclear power plant logo on buildings and soup bowls. Amidst the apparent atomic prosperity lies a past that no-one wants to remember. The tales of characters whose lives intersect in a sinister past, a nuclear future and dreams of economic prosperity.
 
Bio: Andrey Paounov (Sofia, 1974) has been a bartender in Prague, a cook in Washington DC, a gardener in Toronto, a boom operator in New York, and an accounting clerk in San Francisco. He graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia and his first documentary Georgi and the Butterflies (2004) was screened at more than fifty film festivals.
 
Festivals:

Premi al Millor documental al Festival Internacional de Documentals, Documenta Madrid i guanyador del premi Silver Wolf al Festival Internacional de Documentals d'Amsterdam (IDFA).