Windless
goEast Film Festival 2025: 24 April – 22 May
•
1h 32m
Directed by Pavel G. Vesnakov • 2024 • Bulgaria
When his estranged father dies, taciturn Koko (rapper Ognyan “Fyre” Pavlov) returns to his native Bulgaria after years spent working abroad. As Koko tries to put the late man’s affairs in order, he is drawn ineluctably back into a world he thought he had left behind, forced to grapple with family legacy and unresolved trauma. Meanwhile, the economic pressures of life in post-communist Bulgaria continue to take their toll as development threatens the local cemetery. Shot in a square aspect ratio that recalls classical portraiture and anchored by a remarkable lead performance, Pavel G. Vesnakov’s latest feature blends potency and tenderness, capturing a lifetime’s worth of familial tension with a precise, poetic visual language.
WINDLESS • БЕЗВЕТРИЕ
Directed by Pavel G. Vesnakov
Written by Pavel G. Vesnakov, Simeon Ventsislavov, Teodora Markova, Nevena Kertova
Cinematography by Orlin Ruevski
Music by Ascari
Starring: Ognyan Pavlov, Veselin Petrov, Mihail Mutafov
In Bulgarian with English subtitles
Up Next in goEast Film Festival 2025: 24 April – 22 May
-
My Magical World
Directed by Elvin Adigozel • 2025 • Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani writer-director Elvin Adigozel confirms his status as a major talent in Caucasian filmmaking with this darkly funny tale of friendship and artistic ambition gone wrong. Wedding musicians in rural Azerbaijan, Babek and Sahil (Kamil Nazim ...
-
Blueberry Dreams
Directed by Elene Mikaberidze • 2024 • Georgia
In a village in northern Georgia, retired engineer Soso has decided to turn his hand to farming blueberries. Together with his wife and two sons, he throws himself into the venture in an attempt to secure a future for his family in this conflict-rav...
-
Seven Songs from the Tundra
Directed by Anastasia Lapsui and Markku Lehmuskallio • 2000 • Finland
A groundbreaking work of Indigenous cinema, Seven Songs of the Tundra is Anastasia Lapsui’s greatest tribute to her native Nenets culture. A nomadic people native to Siberia, the Nenets found their traditional way of ...
