THE DREAMED ADVENTURE
Special Features: 2027 Oscar® Selection, Bulgaria
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Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, THE DREAMED ADVENTURE is filmmaker Valeska Grisebach’s gangster epic on the bleeding edge of Europe. Journeying home to the Bulgarian hinterlands on the border of Turkey and Greece, Saïd (Syuleyman Letifov) seeks out a fuel-smuggling deal with a small-time crook, attracting the attention of Iliya (Stoicho Kostadinov), the local kingpin. Sensing danger, Saïd enlists the help of one-time romantic interest Veska (Yana Radeva), an archaeologist who years earlier had fallen in with the swindlers and operators of the post-Communist era. But when Saïd goes missing, Veska takes over the smuggling operation, deftly moving among the thunderous, posturing men and coming-face-to-face with the underworld that shaped her past. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.)
Official Selection, 2026 Toronto, New York and London film festivals. DIR/SCR Valeska Grisebach; SCR Lisa Bierwirth; PROD Maren Ade, Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski. Germany/France/Bulgaria/Austria, 2026, color, 167 min. In Bulgarian and German with English subtitles. NOT RATED
Run Time: 167 Minutes
Opening Date: Tuesday, December 08, 2026
Genre: Crime drama
