CHOCOLATE

Bulgaria |
2024 |
14 мин.

Script: Orlin Milchev
Director: Orlin Milchev
Cinematography: Orlin Ruevski
Music: Jony Iliev

Cast: Borislav Paunov, Nataliya Tzekova, Jony Iliev

Production: Geopoly – Pavlina Jeleva, Georgy Cholakov
Co-production: Doli Media Studio

Supported by the Bulgarian National Film Center

Little Bobby lives in a Roma neighbourhood among his large family, dreaming of a piece of delicious chocolate. Angry at his constant bad luck, he sets out across the big city in search of justice… and chocolate.

Festivals & Awards:

  • Best Short Film Award Winner at the 2024 Sofia International Film Fest

Orlin Milchev graduated from the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts and completed a master class at Italy’s IFA in the class of Béla Tarr. He graduated with his short film, Dobri. His full-length feature debut, The Art of Falling (2022), was Best Feature Film Winner at the 2023 Vasil Gendov Awards of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers. In 2023, he directed the documentary I am Denis, and then, the short fiction, Chocolate.