BANDIT AND THE RAM
Alberto Iordanov / Bulgaria / 2014 / 25 min / Colour
Italian premiere
Doycho is 71. His unconditional love for animals and wild nature led him to try to run away from Soviet Bulgaria to reach Australia. For this, he was imprisoned three times, and so has decided to spend his last years as a bandit in an uninhabited village in the Bulgarian forest. Here, his only neighbours are animals and his best friend is the faithful ram Becho, who has been with him for ten years. But the elderly Doycho has not stopped dreaming: for two decades he has been searching incessantly for gold, about which he claims to be knowledgeable, but which he has never found, and for love, perhaps what he most misses. Bandit and The Ram, Best Bulgarian Film at the international festival In the Palace in Balčik, transcends the idyllic vision of rural life to face the harsh reality of isolation.
Alberto Iordanov
A young Bulgarian director and screenwriter, he attended a master's programme in directing at the Edinburgh College of Art. Bandit and the Ram (2014), his final degree project, won the prize for Best Bulgarian Film at the festival In The Palace in Balčik. His other short films are Central Station Sofia (2013) and Bubo’s Limbo (2015).
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Subject Alberto IordanovScreenplay Alberto IordanovCinematography Lukasz KulecSound Billy-Paul RousseauEditing Alberto IordanovMain cast Doycho Abrashev, Subcho Stefanov, Vladimira HarizanovaProducer Alberto IordanovProduction company Edinburgh College of Art - The University of Edinburgh
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