Section: Youth Film U18 Competition

Diada

Dyad

Yana Titova
Bulgaria, 2023, 89 Min

Relentless schoolyard shocker from Bulgaria. Dida bullies, steals and posts naked photos of her classmates to earn a plane ticket to a new life with her expatriate mother, but her world is full of frustration and betrayal.

FSK 16

The life of the rebellious Dida is marked by precarious conditions, violence and massive problems at school. But she has a dream: a new life with her mother, who lives in the USA. A cheap ticket to New York becomes her obsession, and Dida fights tooth and nail for every cent. But a cruel revelation throws Dida's life into chaos, and the pain drives her to an unimaginable act. Yana Titova mercilessly sends us into the dark reality of an unloved child. In the process, she stages a colourful and at the same time ice-cold world in which dreams become nightmares and the search for identity leads to self-destruction. A memorial of a film about a youth without God.

Text: Joshua Jádi

 

The film will be shown in the original language with English subtitles and simultaneously translated into German. Headphones are available free of charge against a deposit in the cinema foyer.

Yana Titova

Yana Titova - was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1983. As an actress, she has won numerous theatre and film awards, including the Bulgarian Film Academy Award for Best Actress. Yana holds an MA degree in film directing from the New Bulgarian University. Her first short film as a director, "The Bridge", premiered at the London Short Film Festival. With her second short film, "Solveig", Yana won the Best Balkan Short Film Award at the Bridge Film Festival in Kosovo and the Cinewomen Award for Best Emerging Director.

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