LAZAR

By Svetozar RISTOVSKI

ARIZONA FILMS - as SALES All rights, World / PROD

Drama - Completed 2015


Festivals
& Awards

Warsaw FF 2015
CinEast 2015
CINEMED Montpellier 2015
Santa Barbara IFF 2016
Sofia IFF 2016
Brussels 2016
    • Year of production
    • 2015
    • Genres
    • Drama, Second film, Crime
    • Countries
    • NORTH MACEDONIA, CROATIA, BULGARIA, FRANCE
    • Languages
    • Other, BULGARIAN
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 90 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Svetozar RISTOVSKI
    • Producer(s)
    • Svetozar RISTOVSKI (Small Moves), Igor NOLA (MP Filmska), Galina TONEVA (Gala Film), Guillaume DE SEILLE (Arizona Productions)
    • Synopsis
    • Lazar is disaffected and emotionally disconnected from the world around him. When his father left the family, he had to grow up to be resourceful and tough, and now in his mid twenties, he is involved in a smuggling ring of illegal aliens. His worldview starts to change when he falls in love with Katerina, an architecture student, who he randomly meets. She is able to awaken his stunted emotional life, and Lazar starts to see a different possibility for his future. The more involved he gets with Katerina, the more he tries to get out of his criminal environment. However, he will soon realize that it is not easy to simply break out from the criminal world that he is part of.
      Toni, Lazar’s brother in law, who lost his job due to the economic collapse of the country, desperately tries to find ways of making money. He would do anything to change the image of a loser, and to provide a better childhood, than the one he had, for his son Zlate.