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    Godless

    Ralitza PETROVA 2016 Bulgaria, Denmark, France Fiction color 99min Bulgarian DCP
    In a remote Bulgarian town, Gana looks after the elderly with dementia, while trafficking their ID cards on the black market of identity theft. At home, she provides for her jobless mother, with whom she hardly speaks. Her relationship with her car-mechanic boyfriend is no shelter for love either – with sexual attraction vanished, intimacy is reduced to an addiction to morphine. Nothing seems to have consequences on the nurse’s conscience, even the incidental murder of a patient, who threatens to expose her fraudulent dealings. Things start to shake up, when Gana hears the music of Yoan, a new patient, whose ID card she has trafficked. A growing empathy for the old man unlocks Gana's drugged-up conscience, and she is ready for change. But when Yoan is arrested for fraud, she learns that doing “the right thing” comes at a high price.

    Director

    Ralitza PETROVA

    Ralitza PETROVA studied Fine Art, and later Fiction Directing at National Film and Television School in the UK. Her films have won acclaim at many film festivals. One of her works《 By the Grace of God 》was awarded Best European Short Film at Berlinale.

    Director's Statement ▾

    Ralitza PETROVA
    • 2016 Godless
    • 2009 By the Grace of God
    • 2007 Rotten Apple
    • 2005 Lunchbreak

    Director : Ralitza PETROVA
    Producers : Rossitsa Valkanova
    Cinematography : Krum Rodriguez , Cgayse Irvin
    Editors : Donka Ivanova, Ralitza Petrova
    Art Director : Vanina Geleva
    Sound design : Peter Albrechtsen

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