Among the standout films that played at this year’s
Cannes Film Festival was
The Dreamed Adventure, which earned Valeska Grisebach the Jury Prize and marked the long-awaited return of one of contemporary European cinema’s most distinctive voices. Set in Svilengrad, a Bulgarian town on the borders with Turkey and Greece, Grisebach’s fourth feature follows Veska (Yana Radeva), an archaeologist working at an excavation site near the frontier. When she unexpectedly reconnects with Saeed (Syuleyman Letifov), an old acquaintance entangled in the...
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