WARMING YESTERDAY'S LUNCH
ПОДГРЯВАНЕ НА ВЧЕРАШНИЯ ОБЕД



Bulgaria Macedonia, 2002, 96 minutes, colour

High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient Komita family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in their work in the aims of using Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to make the compromise with their consciences, as normally happens here in the Balkans, or whether to preserve Katerina's message.

This film interweaves reality with magic and mysticism - countless miracles happen. Katerina has the gift of foretelling the future, and the most important thing which makes her different from those around her is her sense of good and evil in a society where the boundaries of these concepts have been eroded. In such a society moral people become victims, but the victims always have the last word when faced with their executioner. This is the overall message of the film, confirmed by the behaviour of the individuals which appear in the story - they may be old but they continue to affirm the moral values which they have always believed in.