• Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

    Still from The Lesson (2014)

  • Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

    Still from The Lesson (2014)

  • Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

    Still from The Lesson (2014)

  • Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

    Still from The Lesson (2014)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJjRCUGT4Oc

    Trailer for The Lesson (2014)

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4HTW3Ogeyo

    Trailer for Jump (2012)

Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov

A teacher in small-town Bulgaria is trying to out the thief in her class but experiences her own life spiralling out of control when she gets in debt to loan sharks despite her best intentions in The Lesson, the fiction feature debut of Sofia-based directing pair Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. The duo also collaborated on documentary Parable of Life and were both established shorts-makers before beginning to work together. They won the New Director’s award at San Sebastián last year for this breakthrough depiction of a savagely unrelenting, luckless universe shot through with pitch-black comedy.