Ága

Ága
Bulgaria, Germany, France | 2017 | 96’ | DCP | Colour | Sakha | Group: B

Director: Milko Lazarov

An introduction of the film will be given by film delegation before the film screening

In a yurt on the snow-covered fields of the North, Nanook and Sedna live following the traditions of their ancestors. Alone in the wilderness, they look like the last people on Earth. Nanook and Sedna’s traditional way of life starts changing – slowly, but inevitably. Hunting becomes more and more difficult, the animals around them die from inexplicable deaths and the ice has been melting earlier every year. Chena, who visits them regularly, is their only connection to the outside world – and to their daughter Ága, who has left the icy tundra a long time ago due to family feud. When Sedna’s health deteriorates, Nanook decides to fulfil her wish. He embarks on a long journey to find Ága.

Bulgaria’s Milko Lazarov was born in 1967 and graduated from the National Academy for Theatre And Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia where he studied in the class of Vladislav Ikonomov. His feature debut Alienation about a Greek man who travels to Bulgaria to buy a newborn child had its world premiere in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival in 2013. Lazaro won the Fedeora prize for best debut director in the section.