Windless

Director: Pavel G. Vesnakov
Cast: Ognyan Pavlov, Veselin Petrov, Mihail Mutafov, Nadya Derderyan, Lidia Vulkova, Konstantin Trendafilov, Vasil Binev
Duration: 93 min
Bulgaria, Italia
2024
Subtitles: Ro, EN

Kaloyan returns home to handle the sale of his late father's apartment. At the beginning the process starts as a routine mundane task, but soon transcends into a journey of self-discovery that tries to track the connection between childhood trauma, memory and the passage of time.

As Louise Glück writes: “We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.” The question of how time passes around us and what the word “time” means has bothered me since my childhood. How do we remember things? Do we remember objects or emotions? Do we remember the voices of our deceased relatives, or do we only know their faces? I want to explore the stillness of memory and the muteness of a hidden childhood trauma. Kaloyan's return to his father's apartment is a pilgrimage to a shrine of memory, a confrontation with the past that is as vivid as it is elusive. The furniture remains in the same place where it was left years ago, the photographs still hang on the walls. Yet the warmth of those objects has long faded, and now they only evoke a distant echo of familiarity. Pavel G. Vesnakov