LOST MEMORY

Bulgaria/ Belgium, 2019, 78’
Director and Writer: Zlatina Rousseva
Cinematographers: Plamen Gerasimov, Dimitar Mitov, Jury Tcharijski
Producer: Lubomir Gueorguiev
Editor: Marieta Tchukovska
Sound: Mariana Valkanova
Production Company: Diogene Cultural Association

On a boat crossing, the Danube from the delta to its source in Germany are gathered musicians to play music dedicated to the history of the river. The sublime music awakens the memory of the Danube and it begins to send images of the forgotten events that took place on its banks, but which strangely make references to our present and the remake of History.

ZLATINA ROUSSEVA

Zlatina Rousseva is a Bulgarian documentary filmmaker awarded at many international festivals. Since 1986 she has lived and worked in Brussels. Since 2009, she is the artistic director and programmer of the Millenium International Film Festival Brussels. She has made documentary films widely around the world, from Africa to Yakutia and Kalima, which has helped her to develop her many-layered view of reality. Her meetings with people in extreme situations have helped her touch the real and deep essence of the characters of her films. The themes of memory and the preservation of real values in situations of the crisis lie at the basis of her work.

Filmography

Portrait of a Man in Power (1991), Hunting for Wolves (1993), The Black Notebook of Zinaida Gippius (1997), The Green Oranges of Liberia (1999), Virtuosi from Nowhere (2005), Against the Stream (2007), Seuthes the Immortal (2009), Lost Memory (2019).