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Director's Statement
"Son of Sofia" is a film about the inability to express and accept love. At the same time, it is a story about how we raise our children and how our homeland grooms future citizens. In that sense, it is essentially a film about identity formation: sexual, national, religious, linguistic and political.
After my first film, I’m once again consumed by a personal story, which, when placed in a specific sociopolitical context, is seen on a much grander scale and expresses much more a collective attitude. Two men vie for one woman’s attention, just like two different worlds stake their claim to the same society, in a violent, absurd, urban fairytale...