Completed - BULGARIAN - Drama - 99 minutes
A nurse traffics the ID cards of demented patients on the black market of identity theft. Driven by easy cash and an addiction to morphine, she struggles to keep tabs on her emotional void and a growing fear of punishment.
Year of production : 2016 Director(s) : Ralitza PETROVA Producer(s) : Rossitsa VALKANOVA
In a remote Bulgarian town, Gana looks after the elderly with dementia, while trafficking their ID cards on the black market of identity theft. At home, she provides for her jobless mother, with whom she hardly speaks. Her relationship with her car-mechanic boyfriend is no shelter for love either - with sexual attraction vanished, intimacy is reduced to an addiction to morphine. Nothing seems to have consequences on the nurse’s conscience, not even the incidental murder of a patient, who threatens to expose her fraudulent dealings. Things start to shake up, when Gana hears the music of Yoan, a new patient, whose ID card she has trafficked. A growing empathy for the old man unlocks Gana’s drugged-up conscience, and she is ready forchange. But when Yoan is arrested for fraud, she learns that doing 'the right thing' comes at a high price.
Country(ies) : BULGARIA, DENMARK, FRANCE
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Toronto - TIFF 2016 DiscoveryBusan - BIFF/APM 2016 Flash ForwardWarsaw FF 2016 - Discoveries (FIPRESCI award)Stockholm IFF 2016 - Competition (Bronze Horse for Best Film / Best Actress)Sarajevo FF 2016 (Competition - Winner of Special Jury Prize / Best Actress award)Locarno 2016 (Competition - Winner of Golden Leopard for Best Film / Best Actress Award / Boccalino d'Oro Independent Critics Award for Best Director / Ecumenical Prize)Stockholm IFF 2016 (Competition / Bronze Horse for Best Film / Best Actress )