THE END OF THE RIVER

2025 Nominee Vasil Gendov Award:
Best Film (Nai-Dobur Film)

(BULGARIA/UKRANE
Drama • 110 min.)
Screening Rm. 10/10 11:00am

Friday October 10th, 2025 @ 11:00am
The Screening Room EAST
1313 N Market St., Wilmington, DE 19801

The earthly life of the main character seems fleeting and meaningless to him, so Fori (50) prefers the starry sky – he is a passionate amateur astronomer. By a strange coincidence, he travels with his best friend Theo to the Danube Delta. It falls in Vilkovo – a city of Lipovani in Ukraine. Here Forry unwittingly commits a crime and lies in prison, but in this strange city true love strikes him. In Vilkovo, the atheist Fori finds his way to faith. Against the background of the timid, indecisive Maria, he imperceptibly turns into a real man. The poor, but simple and plain life in this fishing town, with a woman who shares his love and respects him, finally gives Fori the meaning he is looking for. But fate has other plans. Will there be punishment for the child’s death? And what will it be? Prosecution or conscience will be the harshest judge.
Directed by Vasil Stepanov Barkov

(English subtitles)