Programme: Recovery and Resilience Plan

The Sonus team is engaged in an ambitious project to popularize and publicize the cordial professional relationships established over the decades between the Metropolitan Puppet Theater and the Japanese PUK Puppet Theater. The documentary film was realized under the administrative management and directorship of the producer S. Georgiev. Archival footage from a series of interviews conducted in the recent past with key figures who participated and are participating in this long-term process of established professional and now quite friendly ties and relationships on the part of the Japanese theater are used, which are implemented in the production. A series of interviews were filmed and with representatives of the theater guild, a partner in these fruitful and warm mutual relations from the Bulgarian side, a series of pre-read photographs were taken in locations (Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna).K.Petrova, director of the Bulgarian-Japanese performance "The Story of a Seagull and a Gang of Cats", is a consultant for the realization of the production, which guarantees the accurate presentation of relevant facts and circumstances. Following an  established practice in the modern film industry, the documentary is being realized in two stages: a test, which at this moment is already ready and was shown at a public screening within  the XIII International Festival  "Puppet Fair" 2024 and following it second - making the necessary changes to bring the film into a format suitable for cinema and festival screenings.  Part of the second stage of the implementation of the project proposal is the presentation of the film in a number of theaters and institutions in the country and the International Festivals in East Europe Film Festival, Craiova, Romania, Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival, Amsterdam - Netherlands, Athens International Monthly Film Festival, Athens - Greece, Replay International Film Festival, Austria;