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
Written byElka Nikolova
Produced byStanimir Trifonov
Cinematography
  • Christo Bakalov
  • Vanyo Georgiev
Music byRumen Boyadzhiev
Production
company
Vreme Film Studio
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
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 978-1317818724.
  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. "*** BINKA *** - Start Page". Archived from the original on 2009-02-02. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  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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