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The 18th Sofia IFF is set to open on March 6

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- With approximately 160 titles in the selection, the festival is Bulgaria’s biggest film event

The 18th Sofia IFF is set to open on March 6
Assen Blatechki

The 18th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival, the most important film event in Bulgaria and one of the biggest in South-eastern Europe, will kick off on March 6, bringing some of the newest and most interesting European films to the big screens of the country’s capital city.

The festival will open with Stephan Komandarev’s The Judgment, the director’s new feature after the highly popular The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner [+see also:
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, the only film in Bulgaria’s history to be shortlisted in the Best Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards. The Judgment, a story about a father and son who are forced to return to a forgotten past and deal with long-protected secrets, stars Assen Blatechki, Miki Manojlovic and Paraskeva Djukelova. After its world premiere in Sofia, the movie will be released domestically in October. 

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The festival will also be showing Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel [+see also:
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, just weeks after the world premiere of this UK-Germany co-production at the opening of the Berlinale. Among other European productions in the selection are Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty [+see also:
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, Brian Percival’s The Book Thief and, last but not least, Nymphomaniac [+see also:
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. Lars von Trier’s latest film is part of a special retrospective dedicated to the Danish director’s work. 

Featured among the festival’s attractions is the 11th edition of the Sofia Meetings, an event supported by the Media Programme and the Bulgarian National Film Center, which helps first and second feature directors to get in contact with important European producers and distributors. 

The Sofia festival will be followed by smaller editions in the cities of Burgas, Plovdiv and Varna.

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