Directions

Directions
  • Release date: 26 Jan 2018
  • Release year: 2017
  • Runtime: 103 minutes
  • Country: Bulgaria, Germany, North Macedonia
  • Keywords: taxi, taxi driver, taxi ride, gun, night, contemplating suicide, reference to god, reference to facebook, passenger, radio
Plot:
A road movie set in present day Bulgaria, a country remains optimistic, mainly because all the realists and pessimists have left. At a meeting with his banker, a small business owner, who drives a cab to make ends meet, discovers the bribe he will have to pay to get a loan has doubled. The ethics board that reviewed his complaint about extortion now wants its share of the action. At his wit's end, he shoots the banker and then himself. The incident sparks national debate on talk radio about how despair has taken over civil society. Meanwhile, six taxi drivers and their passengers move through the night, each in hope of finding a brighter way forward.
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