Waiting for Europe
Synopsis & Trailer
Young Vania leaves Bulgaria after high-school because she wants to be independent from her parents. Three and a half years later, she is in Spain, pregnant, unemployed and dependent on her Bulgarian boyfriend. Everything has changed for her and she thinks differently. The film shows how she experiences illegality, isolation and exploitation while she tries to find answers for life’s major decisions: love, career and children. It is a film about emigration from a feminine point of view.
It is also a personal reflection about the Europe of our days. About how we get to know our new neighbours. About how it is different to be a young woman from Germany or from Bulgaria. About how we can communicate with the other and learn to deconstruct our prejudices and clichés. It is an inward portrait of Vania, about growing up and putting off life… while hoping that, one day, the utopia of Europe will actually happen.
In this documentary, as in a fiction, we are before a partial and subjective representation of the world, because we see an immigration story through the eyes, affection and voice of its protagonist under the protective shadow of the director. The effect: a narrative intimate portrait, living and impressive, of a woman in search of her identity.
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