GLORY
DCP/HD - 2016 - BULGARIA/GREECE
GLORY
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A film by Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov
Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker finds millions of leva on the train tracks. He decides to turn the entire amount over to the police, and the state rewards him with a new wristwatch, but soon the new watch stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov’s old watch. And here starts his desperate struggle to get his old watch back, as well as his dignity.
Original language: Bulgarian
Produced by: Kristina GROZEVA / ABRAXAS FILM
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Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov
Kristina Grozeva graduated in Journalism from the University of Sofia in 2000 and in Film and TV Directing from NATFA in 2005. She’s received numerous award for her short films, among them Best Fiction Debut at the Bulgarian Film Academy Awards 2008 for Birds of Heaven; Special mention of the jury of the International Student Film Festival, Casablanca, Morocco 2009 and Special mention of the jury of the Mediaschool International Film Festival, Lodz 2009 for Gap. Petar Valchanov graduated in Film and TV Directing from the NATFA in 2008. Among others, his first short film Shock participated in the student program at Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2001; his next short film Resurrection was awarded for Best Film at the International Student Film Festival – Velingrad 2003. Together, Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva have directed the documentary Parable of Life (2009), the TV feature Forced Landing (2010, awarded Best TV film at Golden Rose International Film Festival – Varna, Bulgaria 2010 and Grand Prix for best TV film - Berdyansk film festival, Ukraine 2011). Recently they wrote and directed the short film Jump which was officially selected at over 20 international film festivals and received numerous awards such as the European Film Awards 2013 at Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2013 and the Excellence Award for Best Picture at Busan International Short Film Festival 2013. The Lesson, the first feature film Kristina and Petar have co-directed together, is a worldwide festival hit which premiered in Toronto and won the main prize in the New Directors sidebar at San Sebastián.
