El Documental del mes - THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM - el Documental del mes

A small town and its hopeful citizens are about to embark on a bright new journey. Massive rusty cranes, foreign investors, and the joyful chants of cheerleaders carry the dream of a great nuclear future. Disturbed only by gigantic stinging mosquitoes, the townsfolk celebrate the atomic hurray by engraving the nuclear power plant logo on buildings and soup bowls.

Amidst the apparent atomic prosperity, lies a past that no one wants to remember. An island holding terrifying secrets. Stories of shocking and horrible crimes loom on the city just like the dark clouds of mosquitoes descending on its citizens. A world instantly transformed by ideologies, regimes and dreams of economic prosperity. The tales of characters whose lives intersect in a sinister past, nuclear future and the stinging mosquitoes fl­ying through time, sealing their fate together.

Andrey Paounov
Born in 1974 in Sofia , Bulgaria . He has been a bartender in Prague, a cook in Washington DC, a gardener in Toronto , a boom operator in New York , and an accounting clerk in San Francisco .

Graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia , Bulgaria in 2000. His first documentary feature Georgi and Butterflies , presented at more than 50 film festivals all over the world, won the Silver Wolf at IDFA 2004 and 12 other international awards.

Aditional Information

Lilia Topouzova - Script

A history graduate from the University of Toronto . Her explores the cultural, historical and visual representation of trauma. Currently, she is writing a monograph baser on archival documents and personal narratives aimed at articulating the memory of trauma in the Belene camp.

Her research is based on multiple interviews with former inmates, guards in functionaries of the camp system and the recently declassified archive of the former Secret Police at the Ministry of Interior as well as the collection of the Foreign Office Department at the National Archives in the United Kingdom .

• Grand Prize at Sunny Side of the Doc 2008
• First Prize for a full-length documentary at DOCUMENTA Madrid
• The Best Documentary Award at MEDIAWAVE (Hungary)
• Grierson Award for best feature-length documentary at The Times BFI London Film Festival
• Best full-length non-feature film - Shaken's Stars IFF 2008
• Almaty, Kazakhstan; Best documentary - ASTERFEST 2008,
• Strumica, Macedonia; Special Mention for a full-length documentary - Karlovy Vary IFF
• Honorary Mention at the 8th goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film
• Special Mention - BRITDOC, Oxford;
• Human Rights Award for best regional documentary - Sarajevo FF

• Press

• “Alternativamente agradable e inquietante.” Variety
• “Un filme precioso. “ Más y Más
• “Sorprendente y original trabajo de no-ficción.” New York Times
• “Una película simple que brilla como una pequeña joya.” Close-up