Programata

If you are 19 and if you already have experience not in one, but in several arts (circus, theater, cinema), the courage to look at the water and choose the deepest part to jump in is justified.

"During a play my anxiety doesn't show, thank God - otherwise what am I doing on stage at all?!", she tells us when we repeat the common opinion - that she looks super confident and just blossoms under the theater spotlight. To believe us, you only need to watch for example The Same Day or Actors vs Poets performed in one of the small halls of Sfumato, to see how easily Nadya cuts the already short distance between herself and the audience and how she boldly improvises.

When his eyes fall into Gaspar Noe's Irrevesible, and then his mother plays him Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (because she is tired of the constant horrors he carries at home) Theodore falls in love with the movements of the screen and finally says "yes, that's cool."

"Documentary cinema has some moral boundaries - I could've shot with a real family, but it seemed wrong to me. You need to always think about how how much you take from people, even if they've told you they're ok with it."

His films are focused on people who are leading a quite fight against life without happy turns. On the edge of documentary cinema, Sean Baker misses not only the sweeteners but also the artificial melodrama, showing the reality in the United States, passed by the American dream, as if he knew it from within. And this is a fact: his own life falls are almost as much as the battles he won.

She is a film director, producer and founder of Animadocs, an independent production house based in New York and Paris, and she stands behind causes that reveal the truth about our society. Maria is excited by the stories of the living life that she transforms into animation and shares with everyone open to understand. Her work uncovers problems from here to Saudi Arabia so we grab her in the pause between two travels for a quick conversation, which, however, lasted long and made us think about it for many hours.

His favourite Bulgarian writer is Elin Pelin but we put him in Yordan Yovkov's title because it sounds more like him.

If her name is a white page in your head, it is because her first book is just coming out in Bulgarian. Cosmonauts only pass has a presentation in Sofia on September 13th, along with Elitsa and her long history - she writes the novel in Paris where she lives and studies creative writing and cinema, won the Andre Debbroy Award for a debut and was nominated for a Flor prize (founded by Beigbeder) and 111th page.