Alekso Petrov's scandalous film about Bulgarian orphans

A debate has erupted around the film "Baklava" by Bulgarian director Alekso Petrov, who lives in Canada. The film involves an orphanage in Burgas, and it has residents of the home portraying the sex and drug abuse that is rampant there. State institutions and others have charged the director with using scandal to try to manipulate public opinion. Emil Tonew begs to differ: "Why are state institutions so focused on the film? In order to distract public attention from the failures of the government by turning them toward social policy . ... The film's chilling scenes are a small detail of the pigsty in which we live. ... This young director has the chance to change our society. He and his peers have to be even more radical, more scandalous and vulgar, because our generation - the older one - has not managed to accomplished the societal changes for which we longed.”

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