The Tied-Up Balloon
Binka Zhelyazkova / BG, 1967 / 98 min.
In this magic realist satire, groups of male Bulgarian villagers try to down an army balloon. The Communist authorities banned this film by the first woman to direct feature films in Bulgaria; it went on to be recognised as a masterpiece of Bulgarian cinema.
Prior to The Tied-Up Balloon, two short films by avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
The Tied-Up Balloon is subtitled in both Dutch and English.
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Director
Binka Zhelyazkova
Production year
1967
Country
BG
Original title
Privarziniyat balon
Length
98 min.
Language
Bulgarian
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
35mm
Part of
Programmers of the Future 2023
This summer, three Programmers of the Future present their first film programmes in Eye Filmmuseum. Programmers Janilda Bartolomeu, Korée Wilrycx and Kseniia Bespalova are among the very first to take part in Eye’s talent development programme for future film programmers, set up in 2022. The programme will feature cinema from the African diaspora that counters the notion of a singular reality, female artists on masculinity and alternative visual geographies of the former Soviet Union.
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