AWARDS: Golden Chest International Television Festival -Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures/Best Director of Photography/Special Prize of the Jury, Moscow International Film Festival - Russian Film Clubs Federation /Best Director, Sofia International Film Festival - Best Bulgarian Feature Film
Communist slogans, valuable diamonds, rare poisons, glass eyes and scatological humor—these are just a few of the elements driving the plot of Javor Gardev’s immensely energetic debut feature. Using a film noir framework, exquisite black-and-white cinematography and rapid-fire dialogue, ZIFT depicts an ex-con named Moth (Zachari Baharov) on the night after his release from prison. Falsely incarcerated for murder in the 1940s, he proves himself a model Communist while inside and is released on good behavior two decades later into a drastically different Bulgaria. With its breathless leaps among the multiple stories nestled in its overarching narrative, ZIFT recalls the masterpieces of American film noir, the cinema of the Coen brothers or the literature of Roberto Bolaño. Featuring a bathhouse scene that equals in visceral audacity the one in Cronenberg’s "Eastern Promises," and a revelation concerning a cache for jewels that tops "The Maltese Falcon," ZIFT is an unforgettable story about fate, freedom and society’s various notions of justice. ~ San Francisco International Film Festival
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