Section: Feature Film Competition

KLOPKA

THE TRAP

Nadejda Koseva
BG/DE, 2023, 95 Min

The ragged Yovo lives alone amongst the spellbinding landscapes of an idyllic river delta and yet is by no means lonely - he selflessly tends to the surrounding wilderness. When however an investor threatens the fragile ecosystem, Yovo bares his claws.

#feature #thriller #eco

Performance

2024-11-08 | 16:00
Weltspiegel Großer Saal
2024-11-09 | 17:30
Weltspiegel Saal 2

Yovo repeatedly clears away the rubbish that others leave behind. If necessary, he dumps it in front of their door - even if the door happens to belong to the local mayor. He, in turn, needs Yovo's help: local businessman Gluhov wants to entice a French investor with a wild boar hunt in the hope that he will invest in what is a structurally weak region. And only the old man has a suitable dog for the job.

He finds himself banging his head against a brick wall with Yovo however - since the hunt is to take place on Easter Saturday and out of season, a large wild boar would have to be released especially for this purpose and, above all, since the investors intend to construct a depository for nuclear waste in the midst of this idyllic landscape.

We bear witness to Yovo's courageous rebellion, against people who believe that everything comes down to money, in wide-format images that both acoustically and visually celebrate the beauty of a nature that is worth fighting for.

Text: Rainer Mende

08.11.2024 | 16:00 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)

09.11.2024 | 17:30 | Weltspiegel Saal 2 (original version with English and German subtitles)

Drehbuch
Boyan Papazov
Kamera
Kiril Prodanov
Ton
Andreas Hildebrandt
Schnitt
Nina Pehlivamova
Ausstattung
Ivelina Mineva
Musik
Asher Goldsmidt
Darsteller
Alexander Trifonov, Kamen Kalev, Yanitsa Atanasova, Mihail Stoyanov
Nadejda Koseva

Nadejda Koseva - Nadejda Koseva is a Bulgarian director. Nadejda directed the short fiction novel THE RITUAL, part of the onmibus film LOST AND FOUND which premiered at FORUM Berlin IFF '05. Her next short fiction film OMELETTE won a Special Mention at Sundance Film Festival '09 among other awards worldwide. Her short film TAKE TWO traveled around the world after winning a Special Mention at its premier at Sarajevo FF '11.IRINA was her debut feature film which won more than twenty awards worldwide after its premier in Warsaw IFF 2018 and was nominated for European discovery by EFA.Her second feature film THE TRAP had it’s world premier at Mostra Sao Paolo 2023.In 2018 Nadejda founded KinoKlas and since than she is teaching children form all over Bulgaria the art of cinema.