Several stateless young refugees create an ideal country on an abandoned platform in the sea but struggle with real differences of communication, habits, desires and idea for freedom.
Writing
Sharp satire of how quickly idealism curdles into bureaucracy.
Production
The claustrophobic platform set becomes a character itself.
Acting
Ensemble chaos with each actor embodying a different failed revolution.
Director
Nikolay Mutafchiev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Mutafchiev filmed on an actual decommissioned Black Sea oil platform, with cast living on set for two weeks to capture authentic cabin fever.
The film directly references Bulgaria's 2013 'refugee crisis' media panic, with character names pulled from real asylum case files — Starly was an actual unaccompanied minor.
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