Menu
Lyubima, an artist in her 30s, is left by her partner. She needs to start anew, but the grief is there, as big as an African elephant…
Lyubima does not see the Elephant that leaves a mess on her carpet, when she is back from stalking her ex and his new girlfriend… She does not understand that the Elephant drinks water from her fish tank and turns her place upside down overnight… Lyubima does not see it, while the Elephant eats from her plate over breakfast… She does not have a clue, that the Elephant takes most of her bedroom, while she is asleep, but in her dream…
In her dream she calls the Elephant for help… Her way to finally move on is by giving the love memories, along with the grief, back to her ex.
Maya Vitkova-Kosev is a writer-director and producer. In 2008 she executive produced Kamen Kalev’s Eastern Plays, which premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Maya directed and produced two shorts, written by the Golden Bear winner Radu Jude – Stanka Goes Home (2010) and My Tired Father (2011). Her debut film Viktoria (2014) was the first Bulgarian feature in competition at the Sundance Film Festival.
The film had more than 70 international selections and 10 awards, making it to number 4 of the best films of 2016 according to The New Yorker, whilst Vitkova-Kosev was pointed one of the five best directors in the world by the magazine:
www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-best-movies-of-2016
Maya Vitkova-Kosev was chosen an European Film Promotion’s “Producer on the Move” in Cannes (2014), she is an EAVE 2017 producer. Her feature film project Afrika was developed at the CineLink, the ScripTeast, the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the TIFF Filmmaker Lab. Afrika won the “Krzysztof Kieslowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Eastern European Script” in Cannes and Maya Vitkova-Kosev was awarded a TIFF Canada Goose Fellowship.
With the financial support of National Culture Fund.
©2024 The Quarantine Film Festival