Canary Season
(Sezonat na kanarchetata)

Directed by Evgeni Mihailov.
With Paraskeva Djukelova, Plamena Getova, Mikhael Dontchev.
Bulgaria, 1993, 35mm, color, 120 min.
Bulgarian with English subtitles.

A gritty, dark and poignant tale of a young man's search for paternity and identity. The narrative includes striking flashbacks of the man's mother Lily living under the harsh, treacherous rule of communism and its effects on freedoms of Bulgarian families. This is a hard, imagistic and tensely paced story of the current "lost generation" of Bulgaria, the search for their roots under the communists and their search for meaning without them.

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