THE DREAMED ADVENTURE | DAS GETRÄUMTE ABENTEUER

GERMANY, FRANCE, BULGARIA, AUSTRIA | 2026 | COLOR | DCP | 167’ | BULGARIAN

In a remote provincial town in Bulgaria, near the borders with Greece and Turkey, a man of few words arrives in order to carry out a suspicious transaction there. By chance, he meets Veska, an old acquaintance of his who works in the area as an archaeologist. When the man mysteriously disappears, Veska sets out to track him down, a quest that will bring her face to face with the dangerous local underworld as well as her own past. In a forgotten corner of the map, where lawlessness and patriarchy reign supreme, she will stand her ground courageously against a ruthlessly male-dominated world, discovering her own hidden heroism along the way. Portrayed by the formidable Yana Radeva – whom several international critics have high praised as similar to Gena Rowlands – Veska will become the driving force behind this methodical in its pacing and utterly subversive in its moods film, through which the German filmmaker offers her own distorted take on the gangster drama genre. Winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and Bulgaria’s official entry for the forthcoming Oscar for Best International Film. Loukas Katsikas

DIRECTOR: Valeska Grisebach
SCREENWRITERS: Valeska Grisebach, Lisa Bierwirth
DoP: Bernhard Keller
EDITOR: Bettina Böhler
PRINCIPAL CAST: Yana Radeva, Syuleyman Alilov Letifov, Stoycho Kostadinov, Nikolay Shekerdjiev, Denislava Yordanova, Tiana Georgieva

VALESKA GRISEBACH

A German film director and screenwriter, born in 1968 in Bremen. She studied German Literature and Philosophy in Munich, Vienna and Berlin, and Film Directing at the Vienna Film Academy, partly under Michael Haneke. This is her fourth film in an already distinguished festival filmography.

FILMOGRAPHY
2026 The Dreamed Adventure
2017 Western
2006 Longing
2001 Be My Star