Yavor Kostov

Two children share an altogether different kind of New Year's Eve, taking an icy journey where they must cross waters and cultures to make a fresh start.

A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman applies make-up to two kittens. A mother looks for magic in the lunar calendar. These events are commonplace for this seemingly normal family, revealing the fine line they live between fragility and absurdity. In the meantime, their country Bulgaria is shaken up by anti-gender and anti-equality protests with an undercurrent of violence. These women are united by a shared trauma, but now they are ready to confront their father’s troubling past.

In the near future people have lost their ability to cry. A patient visits the "Cry Clinic" where he undergoes an experimental treatment.

About the impossibility for the East to acquire the art language of the West, the ever existing problem of communication between the blind and the deaf.

The last minutes in the life of a New York immigrant artist in September 2001.