Martichka Bozhilova, Director of Sofia DocuMental: In 2021 We Will Still Be Living in Future

Marticka Bozhilova from "Agitprop" is one of the most successful Bulgarian producers. In the cinema guild, she doesn't need to be introduced. Her signature is under many documentary and docu-fiction productions and co-productions with partners from all over the world, under feature films and under the projects for developing documentary cinema in Bulgaria and Europe. Of her new project, she says that "future belongs to the movies, to documentary cinema." Bozhilova is director of the Sofia DokuMental Festival, whose zero edition starts on December 10 and will last until December 18. Because of the Coronavirus crisis, all screenings and discussions around them will be in an online format, and so was this conversation - with questions and answers exchanged by email.

And the festival makes access to documentary cinema convenient to the maximum - you can watch it at any time and from anywhere in the coming days. "Dnevnik" is a media partner of "Sofia DokuMental" as part of the media's mission to support cultural events and discussions.

- Because of the coronavirus outbreak for most of December people will stay home by choice or no choice - why would you recommend them watching documentary films these days?

 -  In December, people are at home, especially now that life is "on pause". But they are also attuned to showing kindness, empathy and a desire for reckoning. A good documentary about the miracle of the human spirit, freedom of thought, the quest of true modern heroes to overcome injustices of our time can spark inspiration and give extraordinary power to man.

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