Details
“A powerful and deserving work of art.”
Genre: Music Documentary
Length: 83 minutes
Countries: Bulgaria, United States
Languages: Bulgarian, English with English subtitles
Producer: Kristina Nikolova for LunaClipse Media (USA)
Co-producer: Georgi Nikolov for Magic Shop (Bulgaria)
Logline: A famous Bulgarian queer artist embarks on a journey of intimate home concerts before confronting his abusive past by performing one final concert for his parents.
Synopsis: From Bulgaria, a place so conservative virtually no one is openly gay, emerges flamboyant performance artist and musician - Ivo Dimchev. Despite being HIV positive, he offers to perform in people’s homes when Covid hits and does so over 400 times, risking his life. Rejected by his family, Ivo invites us into his life and displays the worst of himself with no shame – embracing his narcissism, sex addiction and confrontational nature. After going to hundreds of different homes looking for belonging, he finally goes back to his childhood home where all his trauma began.