Regional Competition

'Family Fortune’ is an intimate portrait of a Bulgarian family – the film-maker´s own – trying to make a living in the midst of unemployment and difficult circumstances. The country is joining the European Union at the beginning of 2007 and many young people have moved abroad to find better jobs and opportunities. Hristov himself has lived in Finland for eight years but the main focus of the film is on his family and their life in their homeland. The father has just lost his job after 36 years and is trying to find a new one, which proves to be hard – and there is the car equipment business his other son is trying to keep up. In a way, the family forms a metaphor for the whole country and a life that is both stable and in active motion. As tradition, history and roots are constantly colliding with the future that is uncertain for everyone, the true fortune of the family is in their shared unity and love.