The Magic Life of V / Veeran maaginen elämä
Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland / Color / 86' / 2019
An intimate film about a young woman who is using the magic of LARPing (live action role-playing) to address childhood trauma, protect and bring normalcy for her disabled brother, and become the hero of her own story.
Tonislav Hristov
He was born in Vratsa, Bulgaria in 1978. He studied engineering at the Technical University of Ruse. In 2003 he moved to Helsinki, Finland and started to study film. "The magic life of V" is his sixth feature-length documentary. His work has been shown at Sundance, Tribeca, Karlovy Vary, Sarajevo Film Festivals, IDFA, Hot Docs, Visions du Réel Nyon, Busan International Film Festival and many others.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Tonislav Hristov
- Screenplay: Tonislav Hristov, Kaarle Aho
- Cinematography: Alexander Stanishev
- Editing: Anne Jünemann, Tonislav Hristov
- music: Petar Dundakov
- Sound Design: Jacques Pedersen
- producer:: Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg, Kirstine Barfod, Andrea Stanoeva
- original language: Finnish, English
Filmography
- The good postman (2016)
- Once upon a dream (2015)
- Love & Engineering (2014)
- Soul food stories (2013)
English