The Swimming Pool

Binka Jeliaskova directs the film that marks the beginning of her Silence Trilogy: The Swimming Pool (Baseynat), The Big Night Bath (Golyamoto Noshtno Kapane) and On the Roofs at Night (Noshtem Po Pokrivite). The Swimming Pool portrays a triangle, one that plays with notions of love, desire, friendship and performance. The protagonists are a lonely widower, Apostol, who discovers Bella, a teenager disillusioned with her first love, on the night of her graduation. The harmonious balance is broken by the actor, Boyan.