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Locarno Winner Ralitza Petrova Wants to Empower the Female Body With ‘Lust’
Marta Balaga Bulgarian director Ralitza Petrova, who won Locarno Film Festival’s Golden Leopard in 2016 with “Godless,” is readying her second feature, “Lust,” which will be presented during Sarajevo Film Festival’s CineLink Co-production Market over the coming week.Produced by Poli Angelova and Petrova for Aporia Filmworks, in collaboration with Screening Emotions, the project has been backed by the Bulgarian National Film Center and Danish Film Institute, with Copenhagen-based Snowglobe on board as well, reuniting with the director following their collaboration on “Godless.”The film will focus on fortysomething Lilian, forced to return to her native Bulgaria after becoming her estranged father’s heir.
