Geography Is Destiny (2026)

A filmmaker travels back to her native Bulgarian valley, a region long defined by a guns-and-roses contrast: vast rose harvests spread across the land while the Arsenal weapons factory employs much of the local population. The documentary focuses on labor, exploring the workforce that keeps the town alive as migration and war reshape its political reality, and it reflects on filmmaking as work. Carrying forward a tradition of direct engagement with labor, the director enters an unexpected and risky role reversal