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"The mosquito problem" - sito ufficiale

In the Bulgarian city of Belene, everyone talks about the “zanzar” problem — a particularly vicious mosquito with a very painful bite. Perhaps the reason everyone talks about mosquitoes is to avoid thinking about its past dark history of what happened on a nearby island during the Communist era or that after 25 years, the country’s second nuclear plant has not as yet been completed. With a delightful eye for the eccentric, the unexpected and the tragic, director Andrey Paounov of the critically acclaimed Georgi and the Butterflies, presents a witty and disturbing documentary about a haunted corner of the world and its colourful inhabitants.
Paounov chose to focus on the smallest of creatures — the mosquito — as a way of exploring the bigger issues: what are we here for? How do we best live our lives? And how do you keep biting insects the size of crickets from sucking the lifeblood from the town?
Belene features characters that could have come out of Spinal Tap — people who wave a vacuum through the air before going to bed, people who spray the town in dense clouds of insecticide, and people who set fire to buckets of weeds before milking their cow, just to get some peace. In the film’s stunning closing sequence, the town’s children enthusiastically romp in the noxious clouds puffed from the pest exterminator’s truck.
The resulting film is beguilingly rich with unexpected tensions and juxtapositions that are both humorous and troubling.