UPROOTING

Director - Kostadin Bonev

Script - Vladi Kirov

Camera - Konstantin Zankov, Orlin Ruevski, Armen Aharonyan

Music - Arto Tuncboyacian, Serj Tankian, Andre Simonian

Producers - Kostadin Bonev, Aram Khatchatryan

Production - TRIVIUM FILMS, HAYK Documentary Studio

Empires always end in bloodshed. The agony of the Ottoman Empire lasted 25 years. A new country emerged in its place, Turkey. And there was no place in it for the Armenians. From the 3 million Armenians who lived under Sultan Abdülhamid II, the number has now dropped to 50,000. Armenian journalist Hrant Dink called what happened a hundred years ago "uprooting" and for his words he was gunned down in cold blood in an Istanbul street.

Program

11.03.2018
”LUMIERE LIDL” CINEMA - 18.30 часа
19.03.2018
INSTITUT FRANCAIS - CINEMA "SLAVEÏKOV" - 20.30 часа

Kostadin Bonev

Bulgarian director, born in 1951 in Tryavna. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Economics in Sofia and studied theater at the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1980. He specialized further in film and TV direction under the guidance of Georgi Diulgerov at the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1990. His film Letters to the Underworld won two prizes in Varna and a prize for the best film in St. Petersburg in 1995. The critics gave special awards to Under a Cloud and The Patience of a Stone at the Festival „Golden Rhyton” in Plovdiv. The latter film was awarded the „Silver Vityaz” in Kiev.

FILMOGRAPHY

1991 Dreams’Hunters (Ловци на сънища) – doc.
1994 Letters to the Underground (Писма до долната земя) – doc. short
1995 The Temple’s Spirit (Духът на храма) – doc. short
1996 Divine Service (Служение) – doc.
1997 Underneath the Cloud (Под облак) – doc.
1998 Patience of the Stone (Търпението на камъка) – doc.
1999 1934 – doc.
2002 Warming Up Yesterday’s Lunch (Подгряване на вчерашния обед)
2005 The Ships Are Full (Корабите са пълни) – doc.
2008 War Correspondent (Военен кореспондент)
2010 Europolis – The Town of the Delta (Европолис – градът на делтата) – doc.
2010 Classification of the Memories (Класификация на спомени) – doc.
2013 Vaptsarov, Five Stories About an Execution (Вапцаров. Пет разказа за един разстрел) – doc.
2014 The Sinking of Sozopol (Потъването на Созопол)

UPROOTING / ИЗКОРЕНЯВАНЕ

Bulgaria-Armenia, 2017, 86′, color, documentary

Program

Kostadin Bonev