I SEE RED PEOPLE / JE VOIS ROUGE

After twenty-five years spent in France, I return to Bulgaria, camera in hand, with a vertiginous suspicion: what if my family had collaborated with the political police of the communist regime? And what if they were part of the "red trash" that the demonstrators on the street want to see disappear? I decide to investigate and to film, constantly, ready for anything. My adventure transforms itself into a tragic comic odyssey, a mix of an espionage and a family film.

"I wanted to film my journey as I was living it, using all the cinema tools that I could find: mobile phones, split screens, skype, security cameras. I wanted to observe not only the reactions of my relatives but also my own approach as a daughter and a director: how far can we go in the name of truth and cinema? Beyond the political issues I wanted to catch the amazing struggle between two generations who try to understand each other."

Bojina Panayotova