Tilt is a 2011 Bulgarian drama film

Drama film

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 directed by Viktor Chouchkov. The film has been selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film

Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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 at the 84th Academy Awards

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Plot

The film is set in the early 1990s and tells the story of four friends who are trying to make money with the dream to open their own bar, to be called TILT. A chance meeting between Stash (Yavor Baharoff) and Becky (Radina Kardjilova) brings them to a passionate love affair. Suddenly, they are caught illegally distributing porn films. Becky's father, a police colonel, takes charge of the case and threatens them with prison. The only way to avoid going to jail is for Stash and Becky to stop seeing each other. They decides to run away to a small German village. Being poor emigrants, they find themselves in a series of funny and absurd situations. Stash is constantly trying to reach Becky, but with no luck. The four friends finally decide to go back to Bulgaria. Meanwhile, Bulgaria has changed, and so has Becky.

Cast

• Yavor Baharov as Stash
• Radina Kardjilova as Becky
• Ovanes Torosian as Gogo
• Alexander Sano as B-Gum
• Ivaylo Dragiev as Angel
• Phillip Avramov as Snake
• Joreta Nikolova as Stash's Mother
• Georgi Staykov
  Georgi Staykov
  Georgi Staykov is a Bulgarian-Swedish actor.In Swedish cinema, he typically portrays Eastern European villains. "My Serbian friends refer to me as 'the main bad guy,'" he said in a 2007 interview. "I've played this role for all possible languages which has these 'bad guys' - Russian mafia,...
  
   as Katev
• Georgi Novakov as Grigorov
• Robert Yanakiev as Sgt. Manolov
• Max Reimann as Bar Owner

Release

After it premiered in Bulgaria in February, the film has been screened at ten international film festivals. Among them are Santa Barbara, Goteborg, Montreal, Singapore, Raindance (London) and Woodstock. Tilt has been very positively received in the USA where it has been selected for five festivals, including the Seattle International Film Festival

Seattle International Film Festival

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The film won the Best Editing Award at the Woodstock Film Festival

Woodstock Film Festival

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. It has also won Best Main Actor, Best Supporting Actor and the Special Jury Award at Golden Rose Film Festival.

See also

• List of submissions to the 84th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Bulgarian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film