I SEE RED PEOPLE

Bojina Panayotova

Director	Bojina Panayotova
Producer	Roy Arida – Stank, Arnaud Dommerc – Andolfi
Writer	Bojina Panayotova
Camera	Bojina Panayotova
Editor	Lea Chatauret, Elsa Jonquet, Bojina Panayotova
Sound	Pablo Salaun, Xavier Sirven
Section	Focus: Bulgarian New Voices / Focus: Cinema by Migrants, Cinema on Migrants / Focus: Europe, 30 Years After the Berlin Wall

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Original Title	JE VOIS ROUGE
Year	2018
Length	84 min
Country	France
Subtitles	English
Screening	Saturday 9 November \| 13:00 hours \| Filmhuis Den Haag Sunday 10 November \| 14:45 hours \| Filmhuis Den Haag

A brave and thrilling documentary investigation about the filmmaker’s own family participation in state espionage during communism in Bulgaria.

Synopsis

After twenty-five years spent in France, due to the emigration of her family from communist Bulgaria, Bojina return to her home country, torn out by street protests against the never changing status quo. She carries a camera and a vertiginous suspicion: what if her family had collaborated back then with the political police of the communist regime? And what if they belong to the so called “red trash” that the protestors want to see disappearing? She decides to investigate her own family while filming constantly and being ready for anything. Her adventure turns into a tragic-comic odyssey, a mix of a spy thriller and a family portrait.

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Director's bio

Bojina Panayotova was born in 1982, in Bulgaria. She was 8 years old when she arrived in France. She acquired a Master’s in philosophy from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and then entered La Fémis. She directed several shorts selected in many international festivals (Home Match produced by Arte; Cosmonauts a short documentary; Bulgarian Gospel, a sound documentary produced by Arte radio etc.) and also works as a scriptwriter (Hope directed by Boris Lojkine and selected at La Semaine de la critique; Camille directed by Boris Lojkine in preproduction; In Limbo directed by Antoine Viviani). I See Red People is her first feature film as a director.

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