May It Fill Your Soul
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May It Fill Your Soul

2016·57 min
6.0/10
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Why Cozly recommends it

A documentary story that tends to land well.

Synopsis

May It Fill Your Soul is a film about Bulgarian traditional music, about the pain of emigration and the promise of immigration, and about a family with a century-long musical history. Bulgaria's astonishingly rich village music traditions include strong women's singing, musical instruments with roots its millennia-old pastoral lifestyle and its 500-year history in the Ottoman Empire, and its lively dancing in additive meters of 5, 7, 9, and 11 beats to the measure. These practices are presented through the lens of a musical family trained during Bulgaria's communist regime (1944-1989) to represent the best that Bulgaria had to offer the world, but who made the wrenching decision in the post-communist period to immigrate to the United States for the sake of their daughters' futures. From that vantage point they have been able to teach their art to, and "fill the souls" of, singers, dancers, musicians, and audiences all over the world.

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Cast
KV
Kostadin Varimezov
Self
IV
Ivan Varimezov
Self
TV
Tzvetanka Varimezova
Self
TR
Timothy Rice
Self (narrator)

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