Film Screening & Discussion

Film Screening & Discussion
With a glass of wine

Seamstresses (2007)

Special Guest:
Lyudmil Todorov

More About the Film:

2007, 95 min.
Director: Lyudmil Todorov
Screenplay: Lyudmil Todorov
Operator: Emil Hristov
Producers: Brayko Braykov, Petya Braykova & Vlado Shishkov
Cast: Aleksandra Surchadzhieva, Elen Koleva, Violeta
Markovska & Assen Blatechki

Synopsis:
Three young girls try to flee from unemployment in the country: they arrive in the capital city of Sofia to look for a job and a different future. The three of them try to survive, fighting a hostile reality which threatens to break their innocent and bright ideas of life, imposing on them its vicious morality. One of the girls does break and becomes the love-toy of a pimp. Prompted by her betrayal, the second one gets involved into a love triangle and attempts suicide. The third girl puts up a struggle for her closest friends’ redemption.

Lyudmil Todorov
Bulgarian director, born in 1955 in Gorna Oryahovitsa. Received a degree in cinema direction from the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1982. Author of a collection of short stories and the novel Chronicle of a Love. His film The Bosun’s Summer of Love was awarded Grand Prize in Torino and Emilia’s Friends won the FIPRESCI Award at Thessaloniki.