The Patience of the Stone
(Tarpenieto na kamaka)

Screening on Film
Directed by Kostadin Bonev.
Bulgaria, 1998, 35mm, color, 50 min.
Bulgarian with English subtitles.

This film won the Best Documentary of the Year in Germany, 1998. It is a documentary about the lives of the inhabitants of a small village in the Rhodope Mountains that separate Bulgaria and Greece. Seemingly a simple view, this film explores the effects (or lack of) of modernism and proves the age old adage that the more that things change the more they stay the same. Overall, a very modern, stylish, and engaging look at an older world.

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