Windless

Dir. Pavel G. Vesnakov. 2024, 93 mins. Bulgaria/Italy. DCP. In Bulgarian with English subtitles. With Ognyan Pavlov (aka Fyre), Veselin Petrov. After years working in Spain, a brooding, taciturn young man (Bulgarian rapper Fyre) returns to his village in rural Bulgaria to clean out his late father’s flat. As he reconnects with old friends and relatives, he hears tales of his father, but he cannot square these stories of a fiercely protective, deeply loving man with the remote patriarch of his childhood. A film of richly textured images, shot in a square 1:1 aspect ratio that perfectly evokes large format portraiture, Vesnakov’s Windless endows its classic story of filial reckoning with a precise visual language that’s both thrillingly unfamiliar and poetically apt. 2024 European Film Awards Selection. New York premiere 

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About the filmmaker:

Pavel G. Vesnakov’s second feature film is Windless. His debut German Lessons (2020) premiered at the Cairo International Film Festival where it won the Best Actor Award. Pavel’s short films have screened all over the world and have won more than 30 awards. In 2014 Pride, Pavel’s third short film premiered in Locarno International Film Festival and later won the Grand Prix at Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival and was nominated for European Film Awards. Pavel G. Vesnakov is Berlinale (2012) and Sarajevo (2011) talent campus alumni. The screenplay for Windless was developed at Jerusalem Film Lab & Script east.