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Avé

Two young people hitchhike through Bulgaria and discover how lies make people happy.

In Sofia, Kamen, an art student, loses a friend to suicide and decides to hitchhike to his funeral. Out of nowhere and seemingly on the run, Avé, 17, tags along and jumps into the first car that stops. Claiming to be on her way to visit a grandmother dying of cancer, she proceeds to tell each driver that picks them up a different story, sometimes introducing Kamen as her brother, sometimes as her boyfriend. When they arrive at the grieving family's house, she claims to be the dead young man's fiancée, much to Kamen's displeasure. But the next day he realizes Avé really is affected by the family's pain and he softens...

Konstantin Bojanov's first features takes the audience on a journey through Bulgaria, on the edges of Europe. Desolate countryside, creepy gas stations, badly paved roads, claptrap cars dating back to Soviet times; everything seems to show a country in decline and, symbolically, Kamen's watch has no hands. In these conditions, becoming an adult is especially hard for two young lost people in search of uniqueness. A beautiful reflection on this fragile age.

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