WARMING UP YESTERDAY’S LUNCH

Bulgaria/ Macedonia 2002 98 min., 35 mm, Dolby SR

Script Mile Nedelkovski, Music Nikolai Ivanov, Art Director  Georgi Todorov, Costume designer Borjana Semerdjieva, Edit Mladen Stojanov, Tanja Bogdanova, Bojka Popova, Sound Valentin Kirilov, Director of Photography Konstantin Zankov, Producers Galina Toneva, Kiril Kirilov,  Stefche Acevski                                                                                                                                                                                

Galafilm Sofia and Digitprop Skopije production With the support of Bulgarian Film Center, Ministry of Culture of Macedonia, Bulgarian National Television and Boyana Film Company

Cast:                                                                                                                                                                                                  Svetlana Yancheva, Biljana Kazakova, Maria Mazneva, Snejhina Petrova, Russi Chanev, Atanas Atanasov, Galin Stoev, Dejan Donkov, Stefan Valdobrev, Kamen Donev, Dosi Dossev, Vylcho Kamarashev, Vasil Banov, Stoyan Syrdanov, Peter Raijekov

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Bulgarian nomination for OSCAR’2002 in the Foreign Language Film category

XXV National Festival of Bulgarian Feature Film Golden Rose’ 2002: Special Jury prize, Best Script – Mile Nedelkovski, Best actress – Svetlana Yancheva, Prize of the Ministry of culture for best new actress – Biliana Kazakova, Prize of the Ministry of culture for director’s debut – Kostadin Bonev

Annual awards of the Bulgarian Association of Filmmakers’2003: Best actress – Svetlana Yancheva , Best set designer – Georgi Todorov

The film participated in festivals: Moscow’2003 – Official Selection, Karlovy Vary’2003 – East of the West Program, Palm Springs’2003 – Oscar foreign language submissions, Montreal’2003; Pussan’2003, Qwebec city’2003; Calgary’2003; Hamburg’2003; Umea’2003; Mumbai’2003; Roma’2004, Berlin Black Box Festival 2005, Lodz’2005

The film was presented in Days of Bulgarian Cinema in Washington D.C., New York, Budapest, Zagreb, Warsaw and Bratislava

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Republic of Macedonia after the disintegration of communist Yugoslavia.

A woman has decided to speak after keeping/being silent for forty years. The revealing of secrets, which have been kept hidden very carefully for such a long time, stirs commotion among the powerful of the day. And they decide to take action.