CORRIDOR #8
Documentary film

Bulgaria, 2008, 74 min.

AWARDS:

ECUMENICAL JURY AWARD at Forum of New Cinema, Berlinale 2008

According to the European Union's planning, the shortest way from the Black Sea to the Adriatic coast and further down toward southern Italy goes from the Bulgarian port city Bourgas through Macedonia and on into the Albanian port Durres. A route meant to bring together 926 kilometers of Europe whose populations have been politically separated for centuries. So far, however, only a fraction of the infrastructural project has been realized. Boris Despodov decides to set off on this journey anyway. Shortly before Macedonia he leaves the road and gets on a train, which takes three hours to get through the last 30 kilometers to the border. The new-old neighbors find it difficult to come together. In southern Bulgaria no one has any idea what "an Albanian" might be, on picturesque Lake Ohrid prejudicial rumors are being spread about stolen Mercedes.

Special Guests:
MARTCIHKA BOJILOVA - Producer, AGITPROP
BORIS MISIRKOV - Cinematographer
GEORGI BOGDANOV - Cinematographer

Written and directed by Boris Despodov

Directors of photography: Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov

Edited by Boris Despodov and Gergana Zlatanova

Music by Petar Dundakov

Sound by Momchil Bozhkov

Produced by Martichka Bozhilova

Production of AGITPROP, Bulgaria with the support of the National Film Center – Bulgaria, the MEDIA Programme of the European Community, the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC) in association with YLE Co-productions, with the participation of Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)

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