Svetla Tsotsorkova’s film has left the competition in the dust, followed by By a Sharp Knife and Full Moon, with The Sun Above Me Never Sets emerging as a surprising crowd-pleaser. Bulgarian director Svetla Tsotsorkova’s Sister, about a mother and two sisters struggling to survive, has bewitched the jury of the 29th edition of the FilmFestival Cottbus, winning the Best Film Award and €25,000. “If a film gives the cinema what the cinema loves most, then the enthusiasm of the audience matches that of the jury: it’s about magical portraits, social and personal conflicts, and lots of small inventions that the main character continuously brings into the film,” went the statement by Sergey Dvortsevoy, Luli Bitri, Péter Muszatics, Marija Perović and Peter Badel. “In an extraordinary way, an everyday story emerges that is magnificently photographed, intensively invites the viewer to experience it and gives each character its own cinematic space.
- 11/12/2019
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