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Corridor #8 is a mosaic film combining fragments from the everyday lives of the characters who live along a non-existent Balkan road. The road passes through the countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. At the same time, Corridor #8 is a huge EU infrastructural project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning.
Along the way you’ll meet a cowboy train, a railway tunnel used for growing mushrooms, an international businessman building an oil pipeline, a local politician dreaming of becoming the next American president, a pimp working for KFOR soldiers and even a song dedicated to Corridor #8, which seems to be the only real thing in a surreal world.
Corridor #8 captures the moods, the prejudices and the hope of the people from the three Balkan countries, who paradoxically are “far away, so close” to each other.
www.corridor8.info
World premiere: Berlinale 2008 – The International Forum of New Cinema, the independent Ecumenical Jury Award
HOTDOCS 2008 – HBO Documentary Film Emerging Artist Award
Sarajevo Film Festival 2008 - The Heart of Sarajevo Award for best documentary
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Bulgaria / 2008 / 74mins / Director: Boris Despodov / First Hand Films
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