Corruption, the grip of the mafia, social deprivation, the post-communist legacy... For the last few years, Bulgarian arthouse film has been enjoying a healthy revival through fiction and documentary titles tackling various social traumas. And while it’s still too early to say whether this is a major, deep-rooted movement, it certainly constitutes a future dynamic that becomes all the more distinct when we realise it concerns filmmakers in their thirties and forties. The 46^th edition of the La Rochelle International Film Festival, which is now entering the home stretch, has decided to zoom in on this trend through a selection of 12 films, eight of which have not yet been released in France.

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Organised in conjunction with MEDIA Desk Bulgaria, the Sofia International Film Festival and the Paris Bulgarian Film Festival, this programme of discovery most notably includes two titles that were screened at Berlin in February this year: Ága [+lee también:
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entrevista: Milko Lazarov
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A number of other movies that successfully turned heads at major international film festivals are also on the line-up, including two features by Ilian Metev: 3/4 [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ilian Metev
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entrevista: Stephan Komandarev
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entrevista: Ralitza Petrova
ficha de la película] by Ralitza Petrova (Golden Leopard and Best Actress Award at Locarno in 2016), and the first two features by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov: The Lesson [+lee también:
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entrevista: Kristina Grozeva, Petar Va…
entrevista: Margita Gosheva
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entrevista: Petar Valchanov
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The programme is rounded off by The Last Black Sea Pirates by Svetoslav Stoyanov, The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories and The Boy Who Was a King by Andrey Paounov, and the docs The Good Postman [+lee también:
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