GODLESS
synopsis
In a remote Bulgarian town, Gana looks after the elderly with dementia and traffics their ID cards on the black market. Her mother, with whom she hardly speaks, is jobless, and her relationship with her boyfriend is not great either, to put it mildly. With their sexual attraction vanished, their intimacy is reduced to their addiction to morphine. Nothing seems to have consequences for Gana; not even the incidental murder of a patient, who threatens to expose her little traffic. But things start to change when she hears Yoan, a new patient, singing. A growing empathy for the old man awakens her conscience, but when he is arrested for fraud, she learns that “doing the right thing” demands a high price.
international title: | Godless |
original title: | Godless |
country: | Bulgaria, Denmark, France |
sales agent: | Heretic Outreach |
year: | 2016 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Ralitza Petrova |
film run: | 99' |
screenplay: | Ralitza Petrova |
cast: | Irena Ivanova, Ventzislav Konstantinov, Ivan Nalbantov, Alexandr Triffonov, Dimitar Petkov |
cinematography by: | Krum Rodriguez, Chayse Irvin |
film editing: | Donka Ivanova, Ralitza Petrova |
art director: | Vanina Geleva |
costumes designer: | Vanina Geleva |
producer: | Rossitsa Valkanova |
co-producer: | Laurence Clerc, Olivier Thery Lapiney, Eva Jakobsen, Katrin Pors, Mikkel Jersin, Philippe Akoka |
production: | Klas Film, Alcatraz Films, Snowglobe, Film Factory |
backing: | Bulgarian National Film Center, Danish Film Institute, Torino Film Lab, Eurimage, Le Groupe Ouest, CineLink Restart Award, Women in Film FF |