PRODUCTION INFO
Title: The Good Driver
Format: Feature
Duration: 100 min
Language: Bulgarian, English, Finnish
Release: 2022
CREW
Director: Tonislav Hristov
Screenwriters: Kaarle Aho, Tonislav Hristov, Konstantin Bojanov
Producers: Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg / Making Movies
Co-producers: Kristina Börjeson, Anthony Muir / Film i Väst, Rickard Olsson, Annika Hellström, Erika Malmgren / Cinenic Film, Andrea Stanoeva / Soul Food
CAST
Malin Krastev
Gerasim Georgiev
Alma Pöysti
Amas Brotherus
Slava Doycheva
SWEDISH DISTRIBUTION
Folkets Bio
FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTION
Finnish Film Foundation
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
2022 Thessaloniki IFF, Greece
2022 Cottbus IFF, Germany
2023 Gothenburg Film Festival, Sweden
2024 Jussi Awards, Finland – Nominee Best Sound Design
SYNOPSIS
Ivan, a Bulgarian taxi driver living at the Golden Sands tourist resort, is saving money in order to go back to Finland to meet his wife and son, and to make amends for his past mistakes. Money is tight and Ivan is forced to get creative in order to earn faster. This leads him into problems. And if he even gets to another side of Europe, is it possible to fix what has once been broken?
