Ivo, manager of a campsite on the shores of the Black Sea, refuses to bury the corpse of yet another dolphin rejected by the sea, because it has holes this time, as if it had been hit by bullets. All the vacationers and inhabitants of the surrounding area are involved in one way or another in an unprecedented war that is breaking out with the police, local and environmental institutions. (Source: cineuropa)
Direction
Sholev turns a rotting dolphin into revolutionary iconography.
Acting
Donkov's stubborn, exhausted Ivo anchors the chaos perfectly.
Director
Dragomir Sholev
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fishbone emerged from Bulgaria's New Wave, where filmmakers use micro-budgets to examine post-communist institutional rot through surreal lenses. The Black Sea dolphin deaths are a real, ongoing ecological crisis rarely discussed outside the region.
The 'bullet holes' are never confirmed as actual bullets — the ambiguity lets every character project their own narrative onto the corpse, mirroring how real environmental tragedies get politicized before facts emerge.
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