Corridor No. 8

Feb 8 2008 N/A 0h 17m
Documentary

The road linking Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania corresponds to the site of a huge EU infrastructure project called Corridor #8. Corridor No. 8+ is a mosaic film combining fragments from the everyday lives of the characters who live along this non-existent Balkan road. MUBI

Plot

Corridor #8 is a mosaic "non-road" film capturing the moods, prejudices and the hope of its characters who live along a non-existent Balkan road, "far away, so close" to each other. The road passes through the countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania and is also a huge EU infrastructural project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning.

Written by

Boris Despodov

Directed by

Boris Despodov

Production Countries

Bulgaria

Production Companies

Agitprop, Bulgarian National Film Center, Media Programme of the European Community, The Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation

Awards

4 wins & 3 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
107
Average Rating
7.1 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA