So we checked-in at the hostel, went for a walk and then decided to go to the movies. There is a South-Eastern Europe Movie Festival at Utrecht – Eastern Neighbours.
We went to Louis Hartlooper Complex to watch some non-commercial Balkan movies. And we watched… Corridor #8. Yep, the first thing the organizers did when they understood we were Bulgarians was to invite us to a free movie. Then we met that to pretty albanian girls and the Serbian who’d ‘had two girls from Bulgaria – one from Sofia and one from Varna’. And we had two more free movies.
The first one was a bosnian motion picture imitating a reality show – the last days of an old man living with his old wife. ‘Mama i Tata – Reality Show‘ was a cute way to show what happens when old people live together without anyone to take care of them. All the real stuff, all the real situations, all the suspens, all the ads (in a comic way, of course).
The second movie was a romanian attempt to reflect the problems of a boy with poor parents and a black&white TV set. A lot of mud, lots of bad moods.
Here is how it looks to watch a bulgarian movie in a cinema theatre in the Netherlands:
Ние пък си имаме Киномания, пък!