Film info: Shelter

Film Information

Original Title	Shelter
English Title	Shelter
Director	Dragomir Sholev
Country
Year	2010
Format	35 mm
Colour	Color
Duration	88 min

Cast:

Cvetan Daskalov, Yanina Kasheva, Kaloyan Siriiski, Silvia Gerina, Irena Hristoskova.

Production:

Guión: Dragomir Sholev, Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf
Fototgrafía: Krum Rodriguez
Montaje: Kevork Aslanian
Producción: Rossitsa Valkanova

Synopsis

A Bulgarian family: the father and the mother have a grown son who lives in the United States, and a younger twelve year-old one who still lives with them and is about to become a teenager. This means he’s about to go from being a kid his parents believe they can control, to disappearing from his house for two days and come back with some unexpected company. Rado –the boy in question– has made friends with a girl and boy who are both punks. He will take them to his home, turning it into a super tense environment, especially with his father, a waterpolo coach. Yes, Dragomir Sholev’s first film shows the ugly and sad buildings left by Communist architecture. Also, of course, the grey police bureaucracy and people’s current apprehension towards public official’s authority. But, thanks to its dart-like dialogues and remarkable fluid storytelling, Shelter goes beyond certain topics of recent Eastern European cinema and provides a ferocious character study and a poisonous and very joyously misanthropic social portrait.