Magic (Post) Realism: Letter to America (Bulgaria – 2000)

Letter to America | Directed by - Iglika Triffonova (Bulgaria – 2000)

February 27 | 7 p.m. | 301 Julis Romo Rabinowitz

Ivan’s best friend, Kamen, is in an American hospital, in coma after an accident. Since he's denied a visa to the USA and can’t stay by his side in his last moments, Ivan decides to set off for Bulgaria countryside, taking the camera Kamen has given him. There’s a legend in Kamen's place of birth—a small mountain village—that one song could bring people back to life. Ivan starts a journey to find it and record it, collecting a myriad of stories along the way. Will he succeed?

Iglika Trifonova was born on February 17, 1957 in Sofia. She graduated in "Film and Television Directing" at VITIZ in. Her first films were Summer of the Lord 1990 (1990, first prize at the Futura Festival in Berlin), Possible Distances (1992, with the prize at the Documentary Film Festival in Moldova), Murder Stories (1993), Portrait of an Actress (1994) and On the Road (1995). In 2001, she made her feature film debut as a director and screenwriter with Letter to America. This is the first large-scale co-production in which Bulgaria is a leading country. Trusting the script and direction of Iglika Trifonova, the story of Letter to America is told by the actors Filip Avramov, Ana Papadopoulou and Petar Antonov. The film skilfully mixes feature film and documentary facts. The film was Bulgaria’s first film in the new millennium and changed the reality of the box office charts in the country, entering the official Top 10 of the most watched films—an unprecedented even for a Bulgarian film.

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