13.07 / 16:30 Regional Library “Nikolay Vranchev”
Animari and Zlatko take seven-year-old Rossi into their unique boarding school in rural Bulgaria for her first school year. While she progresses to second grade making good friends along the way, Animari and Zlatko are faced with numerous challenges to keep the school running. A poetic, whimsical journey through their lives in the course of one year, the film explores the limits of what they are ready to do to protect their pupils and help them thrive.
Bulgaria, 2024, 82 min, Bulgarian with English subtitles
Director: Yana Alexieva
Scriptwriter: Yana Alexieva
DOP: Krasimir Andonov
Music: Svetlozar Georgiev
Production: Mono Collective
Director’s Biography:
Yana Alexieva was born in 1989 in Sofia, Bulgaria, and graduated in Film Studies from Kent University, UK. Her film journey started with ten years of experience as a first assistant-director in many Bulgarian and foreign feature and short films, videos and commercials. She directed 4 episodes from the short docufiction series Meetings with Modernist Architecture. As a filmmaker, she is interested in observational documenting and in human rights. School for Hope is her debut full-length documentary.