THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM AND OTHER STORIES
BULGARIA/NETHERLAND, 2007
DOCUMENTARY, 100 MIN.

Director: Andrey Paounov

Script: Lilia Topouzova and Andrey Paounov

Cinematographers: Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov

Edited by: Andrey Paounov and Orlin Rouevski

Sound by: Momchil Bozhkov

Produced by: Martichka Bozhilova

Production company:
AGITPROP, Bulgaria in co-production with ITVS International, Filmtank Hamburg in association with ZDF/ ARTE with the support of the National Film Center, Bulgaria, the MEDIA Plus Programme of the European Community in association with Sundance Channel, Channel 4, Humanist Broadcasting Foundation, YLE Teema.

Developed within the framework of the Discovery Campus Masterschool 2004

TV sales: TV2 World www.tv2sales.com

Synopsis:
The epic story of a village turned concentration camp, turned a city, turned nuclear power plant and it’s population. A world instantly transformed by ideologies, regimes and dreams of economic prosperity. The tales of characters whose lives intersect in a sinister past, nuclear future and the stinging mosquitoes flying through time, sealing their fate together.

World premiere:
International Critics' Week of the Cannes Film Festival 2007

Awards:
The Times BFI London Film Festival
Grierson Award for best feature-length documentary
Award of the Bulgarian National Film Center
for best producer to Martichka Bozhilova.
Golden Rython Festival of Bulgarian
non-feature film, Plovdiv
Golden Rython for best cinematography to
Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov.
Golden Rython Festival of Bulgarian
non-feature film, Plovdiv
Human Rights Award
for best regional documentary - Sarajevo FF
Grand Prix - Docufest,
International Documentary and Short FF, Prizren, Kosovo
Special Mention - BRITDOC, Oxford
A-to-A Award
for best regional documentary - Motovun FF, Croatia
Special Mention
for a full-length documentary - Karlovy Vary IFF

Official selections:
Toronto IFF
Pusan IFF
London IFF

Festivals:
Reykjavik, Calgary, Warsaw, Prix Europa - Berlin, 2Morrow – Moscow, Jihlava, Bangkok, Montpellier, DokLeipzig, TEMPO – Stockholm
2008: Trieste, Magnificent Seven - Belgrade, DocPoint Helsinki, Punto de Vista – Navarra, ZagrebDox, Victoria FF, True/False FF, Cleveland IFF, One World FF – Prague, Buenos Aires, GoEast Wiesbaden, Crossing Europe Linz, Melbourne