The Judgment is Bulgaria’s entry for OSCARS
Congratulations to ScripTeast Alumni – scriptwriters and director of The Judgment. The Judgment is a Bulgarian entry to the Foreign Language category of the 88th Academy Awards.
The project written by Marin Damyanov, Emil Spahiyski and Stephan Komandarev and directed by Stephan Komandarev participated in the 6th edition of ScripTeast and was developed with help and advice of Creative Advisors: Jason Resnick, Chris Collins and Tom Abrams as a Head of Studies.
THE JUDGMENT is a story about Mityo and his son Vasko, who live in a poor area near the Bulgarian-Turkish border. Unemployed and desperate, Mityo accepts to work for his former commander from the time when he served in the military. His job is to smuggle illegal immigrants from Syria through the Bulgarian-Turkish border into the EU. The road passes through a fateful place for Mityo – a cliff called ‘The Judgment’. Mityo has lost everything that mattered to him – his wife, his work, the confidence of his son, Vasko. In order to get him back, Mityo has to find forgiveness and pay for his sin committed 25 years ago.
The everyday headlines about the crisis of the Syrian refugees and their heart-breaking situation shown from a different perspective.
The film is a coproduction between Bulgaria’s Argo Film, Germany’s Neue Mediopilis Filmproduction, Macedonia’s Sektor Film and Croatia’s Propeler Film, supported by the Media (EU), Bulgarian National Film Center, the Bulgarian National Television, MDM, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, DFFF, the Macedonian Film Fund, the Croatian Audio Visual Centre and Eurimages.
The Judgment was released in Bulgaria by A+Films and reached 40.000 viewers. Farbfilm released the film in Germany on 40 copies and Premium Films (France) is a Sales Agent.