Overview
- Geneviève Dulude-De Celles’ second narrative feature premiered in the Berlinale main competition to largely positive critical attention.
- The story centers on a Bulgarian‑Canadian curator returning to Bulgaria to evaluate an eight‑year‑old painter, a trip that unsettles his ideas about home and family.
- Critics highlight Galin Stoev’s performance, the twin casting of Sofia and Ekaterina Stanina as Nina, Alexandre Nour Desjardins’s cinematography, and Joseph Marchand’s score drawing on 1970s Bulgarian estrada.
- Reviews praise the film’s lyrical, meditative style and thematic focus on exile, fractured identity, memory, and the art world’s packaging of a child‑prodigy narrative, while noting an intentionally slow, elliptical pace.
- An international co‑production from Canada, Bulgaria, Italy, and Belgium, the film’s world sales are handled by Best Friend Forever and it is seeking U.S. distribution.