19th May 2014, 7 p.m.
Canetti House, Slavyanska Str. 12, Ruse

Sofia’s Last Ambulance shows the everyday life of Krassi, Mila and Plamen – an emergency doctor, a nurse and a driver. Their emergency ambulance is one out of just 13 ambulances, which are responsible for a town with more than two million inhabitants. Their work is characterized by the daily struggle against corruption, the bad medical infrastructure and, in the end, their own misery. On their agendas are double shifts, rush and the faint when they arrive too late.

Sofia’s Last Ambulance draws a sensitive picture of three people, who help others while being selfless and sensitive – all despite their own living in the poorest EU member state.

Ilian Metev was born in 1981 in Sofia and spent his youth in Germany. He studied Fine Arts and Documentary Direction in London and graduated with the film Goleshovo in 2008. Sofia’s Last Ambulance won several awards, for example the German Documentary Film Award 2013, the Visionary Award of the International Critics’ Week at the Cannes Film Festival 2012 and the Silver Dove of the DOK Leipzig 2012.

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