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Nadejda Koseva, Director

Born in 1974 in Sofia, Bulgaria. After graduating from the Bulgarian National Film and Television Academy, Nadejda Koseva directed the short fiction novel THE RITUAL, part of the onmibus film LOST AND FOUND which premiered at Berlin IFF 2005. In 2005 Nadejda Koseva and Svetla Tsotsorkova founded the production company FRONT FILM and produced the Bulgarian short fiction film WALTZES AND TANGOS FROM THE VILLAGE OF WHITEWATER (director Ivan Vladimirov) which premiered at Locarno IFF 2007. Nadejda Koseva’s latest short fiction film OMELETTE is selected for Sundance Film Festival 2009.

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FILMS
Omelette

OMELETTE
fiction short Bulgaria, 2008, 7 min., 35 mm, colour, Dolby SR

Starring Svetla Tsotsorkova
Written by Georgi Gospodinov
DOP Anton Bakarski
Edited by Nina Altaparmakova
Set design by Elena Stoyanova
Sound by Momchil Bozhkov
Directed by Nadejda Koseva
Produced by Martichka Bozhilova, Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov AGITPROP and Economedia

There’s a country where people wake up poorer and poorer every morning.Inflation grows by the hour… September 1996, Sofia, somewhere in Europe.

The film has been produced within 15 – the first BG omnibus film: 15 short films about the last 15 years of transition period in Bulgaria by 15 acclaimed contemporary Bulgarian filmmakers, theatre and visual artists. A project by Martichka Bozhilova, Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov at the invitation of Capital weekly. www.agitprop.bg/15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE RITUAL
fiction short Bulgaria / Germany, 2008, 17 min., 35 mm, colour, Dolby SR

Starring Svetlana Yancheva, Krasimir Dokov, Anna Broquet, Ivan Yurukov
Written by Georgi Gospodinov
DOP Radoslav Spassov
Edited by Nina Altaparmakova
Set design by Georgi Todorov
Costume design by Elena Stoyanova
Sound by Aleksandar Simeonov
Directed by Nadejda Koseva
Produced by Stefan Kitanov, Herbert Schwering
ART FEST, Bulgaria / COIN FILM, Germany

In a Bulgarian village Georgi’s parents prepare a magnificent party for their son’s wedding. Although the party guests are already celebrating boisterously, the most important persons are yet to arrive - the bride and the groom.

THE RITUAL is a novel part of the omnibus film LOST AND FOUND.

LOST AND FOUND 2005, 99 min, color a production of ICON FILM in Co-Production with relations - an initiative of the Federal Cultural Foundation; Stefan Kitanov (Art Fest/Sofia), Hanno Hofer (Mobra films/ Bucharest), Damir Ibrahimovic (Deblokada/ Sarajevo), Viktoria Petranyi (Proton Cinema/Budapest), Misha Mogorovich (Art and Popcorn / Serbia) and Arvo Nuut (Nukufilm, Estonia).

LOST AND FOUND
Six filmmakers from six Eastern European countries tell six stories on the topic of Generation: Stefan Arsenijević (Serbia-Montenegro), Nadejda Koseva (Bulgaria), Mait Laas (Estonia), Kornél Mundruczó (Hungary), Cristian Mungiu (Romania), and Jasmila Žbanić (Bosnia-Herzegovina). The outcome is a full-length feature film: five short films are tied together visually and dramatically through an independent animation story.

LOST AND FOUND premiered as the opening film of the FORUM for New Cinema at the 55th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale 2005). The film was subsequently shown at numerous international film festivals, including Belgrade, Sofia, Skopje, Cluj, Moscow, Taipei, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo, Edinburgh, Warsaw, Pusan and Tallin.

 

 

 

 

 

TAKE TWO ( in preparation )
Short fiction film 2009 Bulgaria / Germany 20 min / 35 mm / colour / Dolby Digital Production ART FEST, Bulgaria / COIN FILM, Germany

Written by Georgi Gospodinov
DoP Anton Bakarsky
Directed by Nadejda Koseva
Produced by Stefan Kitanov, Herbert Schwering

Georgi returns home after several months of working abroad. His eagerness to get there a day earlier and take his beloved wife by surprise might shatter his life for ever…

Project Summary: We can never be sure if some days and infidelities happen for real or if they are just a part of the movie rolling on in our heads.

TAKE TWO tells a universal story taking place in modern time Bulgaria. The film deals with the large theme of the small lies between two people. It focuses on how readily we lie to ourselves in an attempt to escape from our own demons.

The action in TAKE TWO takes place in a small Bulgarian town. Present day Bulgaria is tangible on many levels: from miserable “black” markets and characters forced to work abroad to the dream of Europe silhouetted by the image of a foreign film crew.

So far TAKE TWO has gained the financial support of Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalen(Germany), and the Bulgarian National Film Centre.