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Black Money for White Nights
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Sun 18 Oct 3:00 PM
Palace Nova Eastend: Cinema 8
General Admission
Unclassified 15+
94 MinsBlack and white exist only in the title of this deliciously morally grey Bulgarian tragicomedy. Railway dispatcher Gosha (Ivan Savov) and maternity nurse Marina (Tanya Shahova) have spent decades quietly supplementing their modest incomes through ‘small’ acts of corruption, saving every ‘lev’ for the retirement trip of a lifetime to St Petersburg. When a travel scam wipes out their nest egg in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, their dream holiday gives way to a desperate chain of lies, bad luck and increasingly impossible choices. Beginning with a premise worthy of the Coen brothers, the film unfolds as both a sharply observed portrait of contemporary Bulgaria and a compassionate reflection on the quiet moral compromises that shape ordinary lives.