RUSSIA: Bulgarian directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valeri Yordanov present their film "Kecove" ("Sneakers") at the Moscow International Film Festival

Record ID: 722865

  • Title: RUSSIA: Bulgarian directors Ivan Vladimirov and Valeri Yordanov present their film "Kecove" ("Sneakers") at the Moscow International Film Festival
  • Date: 28th June 2011
  • Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (JUNE 26, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF 'SNEAKERS' FILM POSTER (SOUNDBITE) (English) 'SNEAKERS' CO-DIRECTOR IVAN VLADIMIROV, SAYING: "It's an absolutely contemporary film. The action is now. The people are from our life, our friends. So, the story is kind of based on real events. So, it's Bulgaria right now."
  • Embargoed: 13th July 2011 13:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
  • Country: Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVAC1DMH57T202G1SD2CZAKT5XDR
  • Story Text: Bulgarian filmmakers presented their work, '"Kecove" ("Sneakers") on Sunday (June 26), one of 17 films in the main competition program of the Moscow International FIlm Festival.
    The film tells a story of six young people who travel to the sea by different routes and meet at the shore. They have all left behind their own misfortunes and failures, family problems, personal ambitions, and hope.
    The actors and crew spent months living on a wild beach in Bulgaria during the shoot, and the film's female leading actress Ina Nikolova, a trained animator, played her first on-screen role.
    "My impression is that I work with a team of great professionals, very funny people, and it was real pleasure to shoot on one of the most beautiful beaches in Bulgaria, which is very wild, and all of us, the whole team, we really live like this during the summer."
    Some film critics say it is a film about the problems of contemporary Bulgarian youth, while others see it as a film depicting independent, free-thinking modern young people who try to find their own ways in life.
    One of the film's two directors, Ivan Vladimirov, says it is a true picture of contemporary Bulgarian life.
    "It's an absolutely contemporary film. The action is now. The people are from our life, our friends. So, the story is kind of based on real events. So, it's Bulgaria right now," Vladimirov told Reuters after the film's screening at the Moscow Film Festival.
    Although Valeri Yordanov was already an established actor, "Sneakers" was his debut film as a director, and he also wrote the script and starred in the film.
    Yordanov thinks one of the key elements of the film was people's thirst for nature - both the environment and pure human nature, suppressed by globalisation.
    The plot of the story is documented through the camera of one of the characters. This "mockumentary" style was interesting and well crafted, according the Vice-president of the Russian Cinema Club Federation Larisa Ostrovskay.
    "The film is interesting because of its characters which are very well shaped. Their tempers, their destinies, their intellectual potential - all this is quite evident. In terms of its genre I would say it's a film within a film," Ostrovskaya said after screening.
    The Bulgarian film will also take part in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July this year.
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