Film screening
Monday, 29 June, at 19:00
Cinema City — Screen 3
Meeting at 20:50 — free entry: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles

Nina Roza

  • Canada, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy
  • 2026
  • 103'
  • On Air
After the death of his wife in the 1990s, Mihail left Bulgaria for good, and raised their daughter Roza in Montreal, all on his own. There, he also became an expert in modern art. Now, an art collector asks him to travel to a village in Bulgaria to evaluate the artistic work of Nina, 8. Her paintings are already circulating online as Internet virals. Mihail hesitates at first, but decided to travel there. When he meets Nina, he is in total shock. He finds her to be an old head on young shoulders, the same as Roza was at her age. The trip also helps him to gradually reconcile with the ghosts from his past. He needs to solve the mystery of Nina: is she really capable of creating such paintings? Mihail's trip becomes a cathartic experience, suspended between the past and the present, and between the reality and the symbols.
Credits
  • Directed by: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
  • Screenplay: Geneviève Dulude-De Celles
  • Photography: Alexandre Nour Desjardins
  • Editing: Damien Keyeux
  • Cast: Galin Stoev, Chiara Caselli, Christian Bégin
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles

A film director, producer, and screenwriter. After graduating from film studies in Montreal, she got noticed with the short film ‘The Cut’ (2014), which won the Short Film Jury Award for International Fiction at the Sundance Film Festival in 2014. Her full-length début film ‘A Colony’ (2018) premièred in the Generation 14plus section at Berlinale, winning the Crystal Bear Award for Best Debut Film. The film ‘Nina Roza’ (2026) is her sophomore feature film.