Margarita leaves the famous reporter Marco Matanich, joining her brother and his friends from different Balkan countries, windsurfing on an island. But the wind stops and a beach war-game begins. To prove his skills to Margarita, Marco shoots them in reportage. Quoted by leading media it fires a Balkan conflict, the friends start building national borders between their tents, while Margarita disappears in the open sea.
Direction
Zornitsa Sophia's patient, unflinching observation of masculine fragility.
Writing
The absurd escalation from lovers' quarrel to border conflict.
Cinematography
Isolated island beauty against encroaching human pettiness.
Director
Zornitsa Sophia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made six years after Bulgaria joined the EU, the film interrogates how quickly post-Yugoslav solidarity dissolved into performative identity politics.
The fake war-game turning real mirrors how 1990s Balkan conflicts were often fueled by media spectacle and invented grievances.
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