International Panorama · 45th Edition
TARIKA
Director
Milko LAZAROV
Country
Bulgaria, Germany, Luxembourg
Runtime
1 h 26 min
Language
Bulgarian
Synopsis
Tarika lives with her father and her grandmother in a smallhut near the border far away from the local village. Marked byher 'butterfly wings', a rare condition she inherited from hermother. Fear starts spreading among the villagers because ofa mysterious disease.
Cast
Vesela Valcheva, ZacharyBaharov, Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov,Christos Stergioglou
Screenplay
Milko Lazarov, Ekaterina Churilova, Simeon Ventsislavov
Producers
Veselka Kiryakova
About the Director
Milko LazarovHe graduated from the National Academy for Theatre andFilm Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he studied film andtelevision directing. He was a lecturer in the film departmentat the academy, teaching "Experimental Filmmaking andInscenation". His films have been showcased at majorinternational festivals and have won numerous prestigiousinternational awards, including the Shadi Abdel Salam Awardfor Best Film at the International Critics' Week of the CairoInternational Film Festival for his film "ÁGA" in 2018. Lazarov isthe president of the Bulgarian Union of Filmmakers.
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