《謊言風暴》(保加利亞/卡達/2019/劇情)
Sister (Bulgaria/Qatar/2019/Drama)
SESTRA
語言：保加利亞語
Language: Bulgarian
Synopsis
保加利亞的一個小鎮上，一位母親和兩個女兒正努力討生活。愛做夢的小女兒經常編故事，增加生活的趣味。不知不覺中，她陷入了自己謊言的陷阱，破壞了姊姊井然有序的物質世界。兩姐妹努力追查真相，也發現了母親的秘密。
劇介
一個少女的謊言摧毀了姊姊的世界。她為了彌補自己的錯誤，無意中發現了關於母親的真相。
劇介
一位母親和兩個女兒在保加利亞小鎮努力討生活。Rayna跟姊姊和媽媽一起製作小雕像和器皿，賣給觀光客和路人。在破舊的店舖裡過著乏味的日子，Rayna不斷地捏造謊言，渴望給生活中添加一些色彩。很快地，她捏造的謊言跨越道德界限，危害到家人的福祉。一部結合社會肖像、心理驚悚和家庭劇的電影，講述一個通往真相的故事。
劇介
十幾歲的Rayna（莫妮卡奈德諾娃帶來精彩演出）和母親（史維特拉娜揚切娃飾演）及姊姊Kamelia（艾蓮娜扎米亞爾科娃飾演），同住在保加利亞繁忙的鄉村公路的路上。她們從山坡上挖陶土，加工製成雕像，賣給當地商家來維持生計。Rayna也雕刻小陶像，在路邊出售雕像的同時，她還說一些童年創傷的故事來吸引客戶。最終她的謊話越扯越大，很有可能會摧毀已經十分脆弱的家庭……
導演：史維特拉佐索科娃 編劇：史維托斯拉夫奧夫恰洛夫，史維特拉佐索科娃
製片：史維托斯拉夫奧夫恰洛夫，史維特拉佐索科娃，哈利勒班基拉內
製作公司：Doha Film Institute, Omega Films
演員：莫妮卡奈德諾娃，史維特拉娜揚切娃，艾蓮娜扎米亞爾科娃，艾森布萊特克基
獎項和影展：
史維特拉佐索科娃
- 2019年科特布斯電影節東歐青年電影最佳影片大獎
- 2020年歐洲電影節評審團特別獎最佳影片
- 2019年金玫瑰最佳影片獎
- 2019年明斯克國際電影節Listapad「三月青年」最佳首部長片入圍
- 2019年聖塞巴斯蒂安國際電影節新導演競賽特別提及
- 2019年聖塞巴斯蒂安國際電影節新導演競賽獎入圍
- 2020年上海國際電影節觀眾票選獎入圍
- 2020年索非亞國際電影節國際競賽大獎
- 2020年特蘭西瓦尼亞國際電影節國際競賽單元評審團特別獎
- 2020年特蘭西瓦尼亞國際電影節最佳影片入圍
- 2019年華沙國際電影節，最佳東歐首部片獎，費比西青年評審團獎
- 2019年華沙國際電影節最佳影片入圍
其他
- 2019年金玫瑰獎最佳影片（最佳攝影師），維塞林赫里斯托夫
關於導演：
1977年出生於保加利亞布爾加斯，2004年畢業於索非亞國家戲劇和電影藝術學院。她的第一部短片《Life with Sophia》在各個國際電影節放映（影評人週、卡羅維瓦利電影節、特柳賴德電影節等），並獲得了許多獎項（的里雅斯特、羅茲獎等）。她的第一部長片《Thirst》於 2015年在聖塞巴斯蒂安國際電影節新導演競賽全球首映。該片入選全球60多個電影節，獲得了各種獎項，並在15個國家賣出版權。並在2016年入圍歐洲電影獎「發現」單元。
影評：
- 去年聖塞瓦斯蒂安國際電影節「新導演」競賽特別提及，身兼編、導、剪輯的史維特拉佐索科娃拍出一部樸實無華、誠實又具有視覺創意的電影。
- 「史維特拉佐索科娃的第二部作品證明了她的才華和能力……一個關於三個女人盡其所能生存的故事……刺激又有娛樂性，同時揭示了大多數人都不知道的現實。」-克里斯托波蘇雅吉，Cineuropa
- 一部關於黑暗和光明的優雅劇情片。
- 本片年輕主角Rayna由迷人而有魅力的莫妮卡奈德諾娃飾演，這位素人演員表現優異，也是導演前作《Thirst》的主角……演員Assen Blatechky出色地詮釋了收廢金屬的鄰居Miro，完美表現他複雜性格及演變。
- 史維特拉佐索科娃的《謊言風暴》是一部黑暗而敏感的家庭劇。一部結合社心理驚悚和家庭劇的電影，捧出了一位明日之星。一部既殘酷又親密的電影。
Synopsis
A small town in present-day Bulgaria. A mother and her two daughters are struggling to survive. The dreamy and distracted younger daughter often invents stories to make life more interesting. Unwittingly, she eventually gets caught in the trap of her own lies and destroys her older sister’s well-ordered materialistic world. While struggling to get to the truth, the two sisters find out the truth about their mother.
Synopsis
The lie of a teenage girl destroys the world of her elder sister. Struggling to fix what she has done she finds out the truth about their mother.
Synopsis
A mother and her two daughters are struggling to get by in modern-day Bulgaria. Rayna along with her older sister and their mother make figurines and utensils sold to travelers and passers-by. Spending her days in the ramshackle workshop, Rayna is constantly pinning lies, yearning to splash some color in her otherwise dull and grey life. Soon enough, though, her fabrications begin to cross all moral lines, jeopardizing her family’s well being. A harsh film combining social portrait, psychological thriller and family drama in a tale that lies its way to the truth.
Synopsis
Teenaged Rayna (an unforgettable Monika Naydenova) lives with her mother (Svetlana Yancheva) and older sister Kamelia (Elena Zamyarkova) in a house by a busy countryside highway in Bulgaria. The family survives by digging clay out of a hillside, processing it, and selling it to local businesses. Rayna also sculpts terracotta figurines, which she sells along the roadside by hooking potential customers with outrageous lies about her ‘traumatic’ childhood. Eventually, she tells one whopper too many, which threatens to destroy the family’s already fragile existence…
Director: Svetla Tsotsorkova
Screenwriters: Svetoslav Ovcharov, Svetla Tsotsorkova
Producers: Svetoslav Ovcharov, Svetla Tsotsorkova, Khalil Benkirane
Production Co: Doha Film Institute, Omega Films
Cast: Monika Naydenova, Svetlana Yancheva, Elena Zamyarkova,
Assen Blatechky
Awards and Festivals:
Svetla Tsotsorkova
- Main Prize for Best Film, Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema, 2019.
- Best Film, Special Jury Award, Festival del Cinema Europeo, 2020.
- Best Film (Director), Golden Rose, 2019.
- “Youth on the March” (Debut Feature Films Competition) Nominee, Minsk IFF “Listapad”, 2019.
- New Directors Competition – Special Mention, San Sebastian IFF, 2019.
- New Directors Award Nominee, San Sebastian IFF, 2019.
- Audience Choice Award for Film Nominee, Shanghai IFF, 2020.
- International Competition, Grand Prix, Sofia IFF, 2020.
- International Competition, Special Jury Award, Transilvania IFF, 2020.
- Best Film Nominee, Transilvania IFF, 2020.
- Best Eastern European Debut Film, Young FIPRESCI Jury Award, Warsaw IFF, 2019.
- Best Film Nominee, Warsaw IFF, 2019.
Others
- Vesselin Hristov, Best Film (Best Cinematographer), Golden Rose, 2019.
About the Director:
Born in Burgas, Bulgaria in 1977. In 2004 she graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. Her first short film “Life with Sophia” was screened at various international film festivals (Semaine de la Critique, Karlovy Vary, Telluride, among others) and won various awards (Trieste, Lodz, among others). Her first feature “Thirst” had its World Premiere at San Sebastian FF - New Directors competition in 2015. The film participated in more than 60 festivals around the world, received various awards and was sold in 15 countries. The film was nominated by EFA for “Discovery” in 2016.
Reviews:
- A deserving winner of a Special Mention in the San Sebastián International Film Festival’s prestigious ‘New Directors’ competition last year, writer/director/editor Svetla Tsotsorkova’s drama is unsentimental, honest, and visually inventive.
- ‘The second feature by Svetla Tsotsorkova stands as a testament to her talent and her ability… This story about three women surviving as best they can… manages to thrill and entertain, as well as shed light on a reality that will be unknown to most of us.’—Cristóbal Soage, Cineuropa
- A dark and light drama of a beautiful sensitivity.
- Rayna, the young teenage heroine of the film is wonderfully played by the stunning and magnetic Monika Naydenova (non-professional actress) who was already the main character of Thirst, the preceding and the director's first film….At his side, the composition of actor Assen Blatechky is just admirable as he brilliantly interprets the complex character of Miro, the scrap-metal neighbor, and his evolution.
- Svetla Tsotsorkova signs a dark and sensitive family drama with Sister . A harsh psychological thriller which above all marks the revelation of a fabulous actress. A film that is both harsh and endearing.
