26 years after the fall of Communism a young Bulgarian opens her Grandad’s Secret Service file to unravel the past and find answers to why the Socialist idea had failed so badly in reality. The granddad, a philosopher and an anglophile had sympathized with the Socialist idea in the early 1920’s but later on, seeing the damage of the left propaganda in 1944, he had fled to the mountains to join massive opposition movement called “Goriani”. When reading the file entitled “Beast” his grand daughter realizes that the Red Beast has never left Bulgaria. In a semi-mystic dialogue with her Granddad, visualized with animated sequences she restores the collective memory of generations so far apart. While the crimes of Socialism remain unaccounted for in Bulgaria, the Socialist idea abroad has moved on.
26 years after the fall of Communism a young Bulgarian opens her Grandad’s Secret Service file to unravel the past and find answers to why the Socialist idea had failed so badly in reality. The granddad, a philosopher and an anglophile had sympathized with the Socialist idea in the early 1920’s but later on, seeing the damage of the left propaganda in 1944, he had fled to the mountains to join massive opposition movement called “Goriani”. When reading the file entitled “Beast” his grand daughter realizes that the Red Beast has never left Bulgaria. In a semi-mystic dialogue with her Granddad, visualized with animated sequences she restores the collective memory of generations so far apart. While the crimes of Socialism remain unaccounted for in Bulgaria, the Socialist idea abroad has moved on.
Our first doc "Uncle Tony" was banned in our country and our second documentary "The Beast is still alive" provoked this angry reaction from a politician: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=j6wbo3LQjSI
This man is an MP and the PR of the former Communist Party, still in power in our country.
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Sarajevo Film Festival
Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina August 18, 2016 International Premiere
Warsaw Film Festival
Warsaw Poland October 7, 2016 Polish premiere
IDFA
Amsterdam Netherlands November 16, 2016 Dutch premiere
Trieste Film Festival
Trieste Italy January 23, 2017 Italian premiere
Göteborg Film Festival
Göteborg Sweden January 31, 2017 Swedish premiere
ZagrebDOX
Zagreb Croatia February 27, 2017 Croatian premiere
Beldocs Film Festival
Belgrade Serbia May 12, 2017 Serbian premiere
Tirana International Film Festival
Tirana, Alebania, May 15, 2017, Albanian Premiere
Calcutta Cult Film Festival
Calcutta, India, July 10, 2017
AWARD: Best Documentary of the month
Manaki brother
Bitola, Macedonia, September 26, 2017, Macedonian premiere
Aegean Docs
Mytlini, Greece, October 2, 2017, Greek premeire
AWARD: Best Documentary
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