Last semester I manage to take up a course called Documentary and Film making. In this course the whole group of students managed to create one short documentary in teams of two or alone and in the second part of the semester we managed to create a feature length documentary.
The title was Welcome Home and it is about a pensioners home in Blagoevgrad and about how much the perception of Bulgarians is distorted about what people do after retirement.
In Bulgaria people are used to taking care of their grandparents and parents after a certain age. Living together looking after them entirely. In the United States, for example, many of the retired people go to pensioners homes and are taken care of. They are happy there and in fact they are better off living in such a place due to many reasons.
In Bulgaria is a little different though. Thins movie tells the story of several people who are living in this pensioners home and are satisfied with their lives, contradicting with Bulgarian tradition they plan to spend the rest of their lives in there:
Here is a link to the movie:
WELCOME HOME DOCUMENTARY from Vasil Sariev on Vimeo.
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