Section: Feature Film Competition

SESTRA

SISTER

Svetla Tsotsorkova
Bulgaria, Qatar, 2019, 98 Min

Her family was brutally murdered by the mafia when she was a child. Her mother abandoned her and consequently she grew up in an orphanage. At least these are the kinds of stories Rayna tells the potential purchasers of her clay figurines. She really has a gift, at least when it comes to making up stories about the fate of her family. A gift that later proves her undoing.

In reality Rayna lives together with her mother and older sister in a house by a busy countryside highway in provincial Bulgaria. They're in fact all alive and well, with only the fate of the sisters' father an unknown. It's said her mother used to have many lovers. Rayna looks at her sister with a mixture of envy and admiration, after all fate has been kinder to her: her name, Kamelia, is more beautiful, and then she has a boyfriend, the macho neighbour and car mechanic Miro. Rayna is likewise smitten, as evidenced by her constant teasing of him. Cursed by her older sister, who regards her as both malicious and somewhat deranged due to her impudence and lies, arguments between the two often escalate out of control. When Miro ends up in trouble Rayna proves to be the only person who rushes to his aid. In the process she finds out truths about her mother that would have been better left unsaid.

Svetla Tsotsorkova shapes the plot of this, her second feature film, with great skill and patience, in a manner akin to Rayna's approach to her figurines. SISTER stands out with an impressive visual language, in turn making this female portrait all the more worth watching. JP

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Svetoslav Ovcharov, Svetla Tsotsorkova
Kamera
Vesselin Hristov
Ton
Valeria Popova
Schnitt
Svetla Tsotsorkova
Ausstattung
Mira Kalanova
Musik
Hristo Namliev
Darsteller
Monika Naydenova, Svetlana Yancheva, Elena Zamyarkova, Assen Blatechky
Produzent
Svetoslav Ovcharov
Produktion
OMEGA FILM
Kontakt
FILM REPUBLIC
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Svetla Tsotsorkova

Svetla Tsotsorkova - – born in 1977 in Burgas, Bulgaria. Actress, producer, director. She studied at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. With her diploma film LIFE WITH SOFIA, for which she received several international awards, she was a guest at the FFC in 2005. This year her second feature film SISTER can be seen.

Movies
BRIGHTON (2002, short)
LIFE WITH SOFIA (2004, short)
MAIKA ME (2005, short)
THIRST (2015)