Dermantzi, un automne en Bulgarie

“Who will look after the generation of parents, victims of the post-Communist period? Will the grandparents be able to remember the layout of the land as it was before collectivisation? Dermantzi, a small village to the north of the Balkans. The camera searches among these “people from the East” to discover how they lived under the Communist regime and how they are managing now… The director had left the country but now returns to her grandparents’ village. Her grandmother is dead, Communism has collapsed and she tries to capture the past and the present-day life of a family (her own) that has been shaped by change. An essay on the mentality created by totalitarian power, Dermantzi is also an attempt to re-establish links with one’s roots, links that have been broken by exile.” (Malina Detcheva)