Voin

Voin grew up in communist Bulgaria. After 20 years in Western Europe, he returns to those places in Sofia where he spent his childhood and adolescent years. His portrait’s composition moves from place to place, and from memories to anecdotes let them emerge spontaneously. The different formats used in the film also convey the stratification of memory, impossible to cage in the enclosure of (chrono)logical order.

Gaëlle Boucand reconstructs the fragmented epos of the return of a boy who grew up between East and West, torn between two worlds, from underground Berlin to post-Soviet Bulgaria; a coming-of-age story where city and memory merge: the imprint of the past, even the most recent past, is impressed on the monuments, and the ghosts of the USSR inhabit them, as the private memories of every citizen.

And so Voin wanders through this inner-city, reinterpreting his past with great vitality through the medium of storytelling, gaining a place in small and big History.

Trailer...

VOIN - ALICE GUY PRIZE FID MARSEILLE 2020 from ELINKA FILMS on Vimeo.