Thirst / Jajda
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Thirst / Jajda

by Svetla Tsotsorkova

Secondary title
Thirst
Country / Year
Bulgaria / 2015
Duration
90 Min.
Languages
Bulgarian
Subtitles
EnglishEnglish
GermanGerman
Genre
Drama
Tags
Debut Feature
Family
Romantic
Direction
Svetla Tsotsorkova
Cast
Monika Naydenova,
Alexander Benev,
Svetlana Yancheva,
Ivaylo Hristov,
Vassil Mihajlov,
Ivan Barnev,
Stefan Mavrodijev

White sheets flap around in the wind somewhere on a hilltop in the Bulgarian outback. It’s the laundry of several local hotels with which a married couple and their 16-year-old son eke out a living. The intermittent water supply caused by the scorching hot summer is jeopardising their business, and a well-digging father and his pubescent daughter are called in to solve the problem. While searching for a new spring, the two families slowly get to know each other, and it transpires that there’s a much greater thirst than that for water – the thirst for love, which soon turns the simple life of our protagonists on its head. Using highly expressive cinematic imagery and a pinch of laconicism, Svetla Tsotsorkova’s debut feature builds step by step on the thirst for love of its protagonists until it reaches the magnificent dramatic finale.

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