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Rumyana Petkova

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Biography

Rumyana Petkova is a Bulgarian film director. She won the Critic's Prize at the National Film Festival in Varna for "Burn, little Fire, Burn", and the Liv Ullman Prize at the Chicago Film Festival for "A Talk With Birds".

Known For

A Talk with Birds
9.0

Seven-year-old Dodo comes to his grandmother's village for the summer, where he meets a young woman who talks to animals. Friendship with her and a little gypsy girl allows Dodo to get to know the world of "our little brothers" better.

A Talk with Birds

1997
Reflections
8.0

Maya lives in Burgas on the coast of the Black Sea. She's a young woman trying to find herself. The film features the poetry of Petya Dubarova and is loosely inspired by her life.

Reflections

1982
Burn, Burn, Little Fire
7.0

A new teacher - Marina - arrives in a small Pomak village in the late 1960s. She is a woman trying to live and think independently. Marina finds herself in a world unknown to her, at once pure and immaculate, but with the signs of the deformation of natural life that is typical of the whole country. After meeting the Doctor, Bai Mnogoznai, Mariana, the mayor, the internationalist Yosko, she discovers that each resists authority in their own way. And when the government starts changing the non-Bulgarian names of the Pomak villagers, the heroine realizes she is in a prison - with high mountains, forests, rivers - a prison of tragic beauty.

Burn, Burn, Little Fire

1994
Another Possible Life
9.0

A man and a woman meet again after many years - on the territory and circumstances of post-socialist Bulgaria. A university graduate and poetess, forced to adapt herself to the new social environment, she survives in her own country as a tram driver. Having arrived for his father's funeral after years of travels abroad, he catches a glimpse of his old flame accidentally in a tram. Could they bring back their emotional time, the time of their lives? Could they try to resurrect whatever bound them together in their youth?

Another Possible Life

2004
Return to Earth
3.7

In the busy everyday life of an emancipated and seemingly content woman, a "crisis of awareness" occurs from a random incident.

Return to Earth

1987