Corridor No. 8
- Logline
- Corridor #8 is a mosaic "non-road" film capturing the moods, prejudices and the hope of its characters who live along a non-existent Balkan road, "far away, so close" to each other. The road passes through the countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania and is also a huge EU infrastructural project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning.
- Talent
- Georgi Bogdanov
- Role of participant
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Boris Despodov
- Producer
- Martichka Bozhilova
- Status
- finished
- Year of production
- 2008
- Running time
- 74 min
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of Production
- Bulgaria
- Production Company
- Agitprop ltd.
Festivals and Awards
World premiere: Berlinale 2008 – The International Forum of New Cinema, the independent Ecumenical Jury Award
Awards:
HOTDOCS 2008 – HBO Documentary Film Emerging Artist Award
Sarajevo Film Festival 2008 - The Heart of Sarajevo Award for best documentary
"Zolotoi Vityaz" IFF 2009 - Zolotoi Vityaz (Golden Knight) Grand Prix for best full-length documentary
“Grand Prix” – URTI International Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary, Monte Carlo Television Festival 2009
Award of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers and the Bulgarian National Film Center for best Bulgarian documentary for 2008
Award of the Association of Bulgarian Cinematographers for best cinematography in documentary cinema for Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov
Special Prize - ХVІІ Festival of Bulgarian documentary and animation cinema “Golden Rython” 2009
Special Award of Ziraat Banasi - TRT International Documentary Competition, Istanbul 2010
Official selections: Visions du Reel – Nyon, Switzerland, Buenos Aires Film Festival of Independent Cinema, Minneapolis/ St Paul IFF, Planete Doc Review - Warsaw, SILVERDOCS, Artfilm IFF – Bratislava, Calgary IFF, Vancouver IFF, IFF “2morrow” – Moscow, Shefield FF, etc.
Awards:
HOTDOCS 2008 – HBO Documentary Film Emerging Artist Award
Sarajevo Film Festival 2008 - The Heart of Sarajevo Award for best documentary
"Zolotoi Vityaz" IFF 2009 - Zolotoi Vityaz (Golden Knight) Grand Prix for best full-length documentary
“Grand Prix” – URTI International Grand Prix for Author’s Documentary, Monte Carlo Television Festival 2009
Award of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers and the Bulgarian National Film Center for best Bulgarian documentary for 2008
Award of the Association of Bulgarian Cinematographers for best cinematography in documentary cinema for Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov
Special Prize - ХVІІ Festival of Bulgarian documentary and animation cinema “Golden Rython” 2009
Special Award of Ziraat Banasi - TRT International Documentary Competition, Istanbul 2010
Official selections: Visions du Reel – Nyon, Switzerland, Buenos Aires Film Festival of Independent Cinema, Minneapolis/ St Paul IFF, Planete Doc Review - Warsaw, SILVERDOCS, Artfilm IFF – Bratislava, Calgary IFF, Vancouver IFF, IFF “2morrow” – Moscow, Shefield FF, etc.