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Windless

Proxima Competition 2024 / Bezvetrije / Bulgaria, Italy 2024

Synopsis

After years away Kaloyan returns to his native Bulgaria in order to sell his late father’s flat. What at first seems like a routine task devoid of emotion gradually develops into a journey to the depths of his being, where he is confronted with distant traumas, yet he also strikes a new path towards self-discovery. While childhood is filled with sensations and the rustling wind, adulthood is a state of fragile, windless and fading memories of those closest to us. Vesnakov delivers colourful existential reflections on the nature of family bonds and personal identity over the course of time. Yet he also muses on modern-day Bulgaria, where the cemeteries of its original inhabitants are being replaced by shady casinos, and where cultural memory is waning in a country deceived by an illusory vision of economic prosperity.

Vojtěch Kočárník

About the film

93 min / Color, DCP
World premiere
Director Pavel G. Vesnakov / Screenplay Pavel G. Vesnakov, Simeon Ventsislavov, Teodora Markova, Nevena Kertova, Georgi Ivanov / Dir. of Photography Orlin Ruevski / Music Ascari / Sound Federico Cabula, Alessandro Fusaroli, Riccardo Marsana, Alessandro Quaglio / Editor Victoria Radoslavova / Art Director Severina Stoyanova / Producer Veselka Kiryakova / Production Red Carpet / Coproduction dispàrte / Cast Ognyan Pavlov, Veselin Petrov / Sales Alpha Violet / Contact Mirjam Wiekenkamp

About the director

Pavel G. Vesnakov (1987, Sofia, Bulgaria). Selected filmography: Trains (Vlakove, 2011, short), Pride (Chest, 2013, short), Zeus (2015, short), German Lessons (2020), Windless (Bezvetrije, 2024).