Year: 2006
Call Nº: 01/10/05

English Title: Corridor Number 8

Coproducing Contry/ies:  Bulgaria 

Production Company/ies: Agitprop

Website: www.agitprop.bg

Director: Boris Despodov

Script: Boris Despodov

Synopsis: Corridor Number 8 is a mosaic film combining fragments from the everyday lives of the characters who live along a fictional Balkan road. The road passes through the Balkan countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. In 2007, Bulgaria joined the European Union as its poorest member; Macedonia in the past was divided by ethnic conflict and was the scene of military action during the Yugoslav war; Albania, under its communist dictatorship, was completely isolated from the rest of the world. At the same time, Corridor Number 8 is the name of a huge EU infrastructure project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning. Corridor Number 8 has a historical significance as the European part of the Silk Road upon which St. Peter brought Christianity to Europe. It was also the road used by smugglers during the Yugoslavian Embargo from 1992 to 1996.