Poslednata lineika na Sofia (La última ambulancia de Sofía), Ilian Metev, Bulgaria, 2012, 75’
Bulgarian director Ilian Metev’s (Sofia, 1981) first feature was presented at Critics’ Week, Cannes, in 2012, where it took the France Visionary Award. After being released then, it had a very successful run through festivals across the world, winning important prizes, such as Best Documentary at Karlovy Vary, 2012, among others.
The film explores the tiring, often frustrating, day-to-day endeavours of a team of three people – Yordanov, Mila and Plamen – who work in an ambulance that roves the streets of the capital of Bulgaria. The documentary shall show us what transpires in the course of one of the 48-hour shifts: their conversations, their crises, their labour demands, emergency calls, dreams, moments of rest, and their determination to push ahead and turn all the drama of their daily work into something that gives them cause for greater hope, something bright enough to spur them to continue, to carry on into to the next shift.
The film explores the tiring, often frustrating, day-to-day endeavours of a team of three people – Yordanov, Mila and Plamen – who work in an ambulance that roves the streets of the capital of Bulgaria.