EXCLUSIVE: Lightdox has acquired worldwide gross sales rights to The massive increase! forward of its world premiere within the Frontlight part of the Worldwide Documentary Pageant Amsterdam (IDFA).
Swiss filmmaker Gabriel Tejedor directed this feature-length documentary that explores “the contradictions of a Bulgarian metropolis drawn into Europe’s altering geopolitical order, the place the manufacturing of weapons for Ukraine’s entrance traces collides with enduring ties to Russia, private convictions and the each day must survive.” »
The massive increase! premieres at IDFA on Saturday. Watch the trailer for the movie beneath.
The documentary contrasts the traditional traditions of Kazanlak, the Bulgarian “Valley of Roses”, with the city’s foremost trade – the Arsenal arms manufacturing unit. This protection contractor, based within the 19th century, “gave work to hundreds of individuals manufacturing arms and munitions,” based on a synopsis. “By the experiences of 4 residents, Tejedor questions the place this trade occupies within the metropolis’s economic system and id, and the questions it raises for these whose lives depend upon it.
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“The massive increase! confronts us with a contradiction on the coronary heart of at present’s Europe – a metropolis manufacturing weapons of warfare whereas fighting its personal loyalties and beliefs,” commented Anna Berthollet, CEO of Lightdox. “Gabriel Tejedor finds a path to this actuality that appears each lucid and deeply human. Being of Bulgarian origin myself, I discover his delicate portrait of Kazanlak and its inhabitants significantly important. It reveals the layers of historical past, id and geopolitical affect that form the area with out lowering them to a political argument. We’re excited to carry this well timed movie to audiences around the globe.
The massive increase! is the fifth function movie directed by Tejedor, a filmmaker and journalist “whose work explores utopias and the relationships between people and authority within the former Soviet Union and its satellite tv for pc states.”
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“I’ve by no means been occupied with warfare or weapons. However the invasion of Ukraine shattered my beliefs,” Tejedor stated in an announcement. “Since then, a query has haunted me: what does it imply to be a pacifist at present? I decide neither the Arsenal staff nor the native inhabitants. The massive increase! doesn’t search to show a lesson, however to confront the grey areas of a continent prisoner of its personal paradoxes.
“The massive increase!” »
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The movie is a manufacturing of Mira Movie Basel GmbH, co-produced by RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, SRG SSR, with the help of Swiss and regional movie funds and cultural establishments.
Susanna Guggenberger produced The massive increase! Images is by Thomas Szczepanski; Christine Hoffet edited the movie. The rating consists by Petar Dundakov.
Watch the trailer for The massive increase! right here: