Tarika

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIEREAcclaimed writer/director Milko Lazarov (“Ága”) spins this humanistic, magical realist yarn—marvelously shot by Kaloyan Bozhilov—about a quiet, widowed villager who must protect his extraordinary, gifted daughter from the scorn and pitchforks of superstitious locals.Tarika lives with her father and her grandmother in a small hut near the border, far away from the local village. Marked by her “butterfly wings”—a rare bone condition she inherited from her mother—Tarika has been the source of the community’s superstitions forever. When the local cattle are struck down by a mysterious disease, fear starts spreading among the villagers.