Alphabet of hope
Category
COMPLETED FILMS, Documental
Date
November 18, 2016
About
Year of production: 2003
Category: documentary film
Length: 54 minutes
Director: Stephan Komandarev
Writer: Yuri Datchev
Production: Argo Film (Bulgaria)
Producer: Stephan Komandarev
Supported by: Bulgarian National Film Center and JAN VRIJMAN FUND
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS:
2003: Golden Rython Bulgarian Documentary Film Festival – Golden Rython for Best Bulgarian Documentary Film; Best Producer Award;
2003: IDFA – Amsterdam (Netherlands)
2004: GoEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, Wiesbaden – Best Documentary Film Award of the Hertie Foundation (Germany)
2004: Documenta Madrid (Spain)
2004: Munich International Documentary Film Festival (Germany)
2004: International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film (Germany)
2004: Festival International – Cinéma Méditerranéen, Montpellier (France)
LOGLINE
The children of two families – one Christian, one Muslim, have to travel in difficult conditions 150 kilometres every day to reach the last remaining open school in a border zone between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. What gives hope to these people in their life in an abandoned region with a complicated historic background?
