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Tarika has been chosen as Bulgaria's Oscar contender

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Bulgaria has selected Tarika as its official entry in the Best International Feature Film category for next year's Academy Awards.


Directed by Milko Lazarov, the film is his third feature and premiered at the 68th BFI London Film Festival. It went on to win the Grand Prize at the Kolkata International Film Festival in India.


Set in a remote border region where people of different ethnicities appear to coexist peacefully, the film tells the story of Tarika, a young girl with special powers. When livestock in the village begin to die in mysterious circumstances, the superstitious community blames her for their misfortune and decides that she must be killed.



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