Stanka se pribira vkashti (Stanka Goes Home)
Maya Vitkova, Bulgaria, 35mm, 2010, 15'
dom 12 sett, h. 15.00, Teatro Strehler
giov 16 sett, h. 16.30, Teatro Dal Verme
sab 18 sett, h. 20.30, Teatro Dal Verme
Regista/Director: Maya Vitkova
English Title: Stanka Goes Home
Paese/Country: Bulgaria
Anno/Year: 2010
Formato/Format: 35mm
Durata/Running Time: 15'
Produzione/Production: Viktoria Films
Produttore/Producer Lise: Maya Vitkova
Sceneggiatura/Screenplay: Radu Jude
Montaggio/Editing: Vladimir Andonov, Maya Vitkova, Toma Waszarow
Fotografia/Cinematography: Krum Rodriguez
Sound Editor: Ivan Andreev
Musica/Music: Ivan Andreev
Cast: Reni Yoncheva, Vassil Dimitrov, Jordan Bikov
Distribuzione/Distribution: KurzFilmAgentur Hamburg e.V.
Sinossi / Synopsis
Stanka torna a casa piena di sacchetti della spesa, ma l'ascensore è rotto e dovrà salire a piedi fino al nono piano. Con un dettaglio: Stanka ha 80 anni di acciacchi sul corpo, e ad aspettarla a casa c'è il marito, ancora più segnato dalla vecchiaia. Un frammento di quotidianità che vale la fatica di vivere la tarda età. Caso più unico che raro di un film dove la lentezza dell'azione è subordinata alla lentezza fisica dei protagonisti, che - qualcuno giura - suscita persino un sincero umorismo, pur venato di amarezza.
Stanka goes home, burdened with the shopping, but the lift is out of order and she will have to go upstairs on foot to the ninth floor. With one detail: Stanka has 80 years of aches and pains in her body and at home her husband, who is even more marked by old age, is waiting for her. A fragment of everyday life that shows the fatigue of old age. An exceptional case of a film where the slowness of the action is subordinated to the physical slowness of the main characters who - some swear - even arouse a sincere humour, although veined with bitterness.
Note di regia / Director's Statement
"While in preparation for Stanka Goes Home, I was taking my grandmother for walks. She is 80 and lives on the 4th floor. There is no elevator (old building) and she cannot get down and climb the stairs alone. It's both funny and sad - if my family didn't care, as the majority of Bulgarians do not about their old relatives, she would stay locked. Thinking of Stanka, I asked her what was going to happen if she had to climb 9 floors instead of 4. She replied: I'd die. - What from? From death, my grandmother said. While I was living in Berlin once the elevator went out of order. Having an elevator broken in Bulgaria is a nightmare Ð it means there will be endless phone calls, quarrels and discussions and you'd wait for weeks for them to fix it. I called the landlord, thinking heÕd come in the following days, i.e. quicker - it's Germany. He came in 15 minutes, fixed the elevator and left, apologizing for the inconvenience. I notice both the demolition of the Berlin wall (9 November 1989), and the collapse of Communism in Bulgaria (10 November 1989). Although the difference was a single day, there are still ages separating us. Here, in Bulgaria, people still die from death. As the writer Radu Jude said, Stanka Goes Home is a story about being humiliated by life and about loneliness. Sadly enough, this is how we'll end up one day."
Maya Vitkova
Anno di Nascita/Date of Birth: 1978
Paese/Country: Bulgaria
Biografia/Biography
Maya Vitkova is a writer/director and producer born in Sofia in 1978. She graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts with MA in film directing in 2001. Until 2006 Maya has worked as an assistant director and casting director for over 20 Bulgarian and International productions. In 2008 she produced Kamen Kalev's feature Eastern Plays, nominated for the Camera dÕOr at the Cannes IntÕl Film Festival 2009. Eastern Plays was among the 3 films nominated for the LUX award of the European Parliament and in the official selection of the European Film Awards 2009, currently has more than 10 international awards. In 2009 Maya founded Viktoria Films Ltd, an independent production company focused on producing independent short and feature films. She directed and produced the short film Stanka Goes Home, written by the award-winning Romanian writer/director Radu Jude. The project was presented at the European Short Pitch and supported by the National Culture Fund. Stanka Goes Home had its first public screening at the Cannes Critic's Week in May 2010. Maya Vitkova is currently in pre-production of her debut feature Viktoria (working title Queen Viktoria).
Filmografia/FilmographyWhy always me?, 1997
Passage, 1998
Execution 4, 1999
Christmas Tale, 2001
The ABC Project, 2004
Building Bridges, 2006
Mothers and Daughters, 2006
Festival/Festivals
49th International Critic's Week, 16th CFC Worldwide Short Film Festival, 26th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, 38th Huesca Film Festival, 16th Sarajevo Film Festival, 34th Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, 3rd Bueu International Shortfilm Festival
Premi/Awards
Francisco García de Paso Award (38th Huesca Film Festival), Special Mention - Youth Jury (38th Huesca Film Festival), Special Mention for a Best International Short Film (16th Sarajevo Film Festival)
