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- On Tour: DJORDJEVIC’s Working class goes to hell
ENFF On Tour lands in Rotterdam next Sunday, October 27, at Kino for the Dutch premiere of Working Class Goes to Hell by Serbian director Mladen Đorđević. The director of The Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009) returns with another uncompromising, wildly imaginative, and transgressive mix of genre and social drama that you won’t want to miss. - On Tour: CHAJDAS’s IMAGO
ENFF arrives in The Hague with the post-punk psychological drama Imago by Polish director Olga Chajdas. The Dutch premiere of Imago will take place on Friday, November 1, at 19:00 at Laaktheater, The Hague. Our signature Balkan cocktail will be served before the screening. - On Tour: Katalin MOLDOVAI debut’s Without Air
The debut feature film by Romanian director Katalin Moldovai comes to LHC Utrecht as part of the ENFF On Tour program. A seemingly innocent report triggers a chain of events that causes Ana, a high school teacher, to lose her footing in the world she once believed was secure.
| Director | Yana Titova |
| Producer | Aleksandar Aleksiev, Nickolay Stoichkov – NO BLINK; Reason 8 Films |
| Writer | Yana Titova |
| Camera | Martin Balkansky |
| Editor | Bohos Topakbashian |
| Cast | Valentina Karoleva, Dimitar Nikolov, Aleksandar Aleksiev |
| Original Title | DOZA SCHASTIE |
| Year | 2019 |
| Length | 100 min |
| Country | Bulgaria / UK |
| Subtitles | English |
| Section | WOMEN’S POWER / CINEMA AS CULTURAL MEMORY |
A deeply moving romantic and family drama, based on true events from the life of well-known Bulgarian journalist Vesela Toteva. Based on her own memoir ‘Fall and Salvation: Confessions of a former heroin addict’, it’s a tale of addiction, destitution, fear and redemption, as a rebellious young woman searches for happiness during the turbulent transitional 1990s in Bulgaria.
Synopsis
It’s the careless 90s in Bulgaria, a time of major political changes and economic malaise. Society is full of challenges for young people, balancing between socialist and capitalist life paths. The biopic follows beautiful Vesela, a 20-year-old young mother of a 3-year-old girl, as she gets out of an unhappy marriage. Taking a job in a nightclub, it doesn’t take long before she is in a new relationship, this time with a man twice her age. But the real troubles kick in when Vesela starts using heroin and quickly becomes an addict, putting her entire life in danger. Played brilliantly by beautiful Valentina Karoleva, who is in fact the actual daughter of Vesela Toteva, the film is a touching coming of age story. Directed by the respected actress Yana Titova, this moving true story became the big box-office success of 2019 in Bulgaria.