8th Sofia International Film Festival

Bulgaria, March 4 - March 14 2004

The jury

Marc Lepoivre (France), Danko Jesic (Serbia-Montenegro), Petia Alexandrova (Bulgaria)

Awarded films

Summer in the Golden Valley by Srdjan Vuletic
(Bosnia and Herzegovina/ France/ UK, 2003, 105 mins)

Reports

To Live On The Ortodox Balkans by Petia Alexandrova
Balkan Films and Independent Cinema by Marc Lepoivre
Summer in the Golden Valley: Hope and Despair by Danko Jesic

“Summer in the Golden Valley” by Srdjan Vuletic (from Bosnia and Herzegovina) is a film about hope and despair, about the clash between traditional Muslim values and modern lack of values, about friendship and betrayal, about honesty and corruption. At the Sofia Film Festival the film won the Critics Prize.

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