Everything Tastes Strange Today
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Drama, Short Films, 20-Mar-2025
On an endless summer day in the privacy of their garden, a twelve-year-old girl vies for the attention of her older brother. Kristina Spassovska directs “Everything Tastes Strange Today,” a 16mm coming-of-age set in a lush Bulgaria. The young girl takes a big bite out of a freshly-picked tomato. Bored, she looks for her brother and finds him passed out asleep on the grass soaking up the sun. Later, after overhearing him on a phone call with a girl, the message is clear that she’ll have to entertain herself. She spends the remainder of the afternoon exploring and climbing towering rocks where she exclaims a few words for her brother to hear. After finding him with the girl he was on the phone with, she scurries off, only to be approached by another wanderer. Sounds of the outdoors and quiet footsteps steadily weave us into the young girl’s state-of-mind and tender youthfulness. -JM. Writer and director: Kristina Spassovska. Cast: Petra Piskuliiska, Kalin Marinov, Viara Milanova. Director of photography: Ivan Chertov. Editor: Kristina Spassovska. Sound: Gergana Karisheva. Produced by Kristina Spassovska, Bellevue Kino.
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