Women Do Cry

Drama · 2022

A mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A postnatal woman nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl contracts HIV from an adulterous partner. A woman applies make-up to two kittens. A mother looks for magic in the lunar calendar. These events are commonplace for this seemingly normal family, revealing the fine line they live between fragility and absurdity. In the meantime, their country Bulgaria is shaken up by anti-gender and anti-equality protests with an undercurrent of violence. These women are united by a shared trauma, but now they are ready to confront their father’s troubling past.

Starring

Vesela Kazakova, Maria Bakalova, Vesela Kazakova, Vesela Kazakova, Vesela Kazakova, Iossif Surchadzhiev, Andy Cowton, Diana Spasova, Bilyana Kazakova, Christophe Bruncher

Director

Vesela Kazakova