Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence

Binka: To Tell a Story about Silence (Bulgarian Бинка. Да разкажеш приказка за мълчанието) is a 2006 documentary film directed by Elka Nikolova.[1] It is 48 minutes in length, and was released in Bulgaria in 2006 and in the United States in 2007.[2]

Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence
Бинка. Да разкажеш приказка за мълчанието
Directed byElka Nikolova
Produced byStanimir Trifonov
Written byElka Nikolova
Music byRumen Boyadzhiev
Cinematography
  • Christo Bakalov
  • Vanyo Georgiev
Production
company
Vreme Film Studio
Release date
2007
Running time
48 minutes
CountryBulgaria
LanguageBulgarian

The topic of the film is the life and struggles of Bulgaria's first female film director Binka Zhelyazkova during difficult times politically.[3] The documentary premiered in New York, at the Museum of Modern Art, on April 4, 2007.[4][5] Later it was shown at many venues such as the Russian Cultural Center In Houston, Texas,[6] Brave Festival in Wrocław,[7] and was also shown at the 2007 South East European Film Festival in Los Angeles, California where it won the Audience Award for best documentary film; it won the award for Best Debut Film at the 2007 Golden Rython Festival for Nonfeature Films; and was also featured in Montreal, Quebec's International Festival of Films on Art.[8]

The film is archived in the Bulgarian National Film Center.[9]

References
  1. Tehrani, Bijan (21 April 2007). "Binka, story of an artist working in a very complicated times". Cinema Without Borders. Archived from the original on 6 August 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  2. "Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence". The New Yorker. 2007. p. 19. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  3. Haynes, John; Bahun, Sanja (2014). Cinema, State Socialism and Society in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, 1917-1989: Re-Visions. Routledge. p. 80. ISBN 1317818725.
  4. "Премиера на документалния филм на Елка Николова в Музея за модерно изкуство. Сред публиката като обикновен зрител беше и Джордж Сорос Бинка. Да разкажеш приказка за мълчанието" (in Bulgarian). Capital. 16 April 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  5. "Film Exhibitions: Binka: To Tell a Story about Silence". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  6. "Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence". Fresh Arts. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  7. "Binka: To Tell a Story About Silence". Brave Festival. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
  8. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2009-03-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. "Binka. To Tell a Story About Silence". Bulgarian National Film Center. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 May 2015.

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