Zdravko Dragnev

Vassil (41) is a documentary film director who has not achieved the success he dreams of. He puts all his energy filming the broken relationship between a monk and his mother. Meanwhile Vassil's wife and their 14-year-old daughter take second place in his life. The director learns that the monk is in a psychiatry while his mother will have to undergo a cancer surgery. To bring them together to forgive each other is Vassil's long awaited finale of his film. He faces a dilemma to shoot "life as it is" or show human compassion and empathy.

Time moves at its own slow rhythm in the village of Sinagovci. When the mayor, an avid racing driver, donates a rusty old bus, a fragile dream of romantic journeys begins to take shape. Poets, a painter, a tractor driver, a fortune teller, and a handful of free spirits long for places which lead elsewhere. Some are waiting for Godot; others for a hot meal or a measure of dignity. Blending raw poetry, humour, and melancholy, Welcome to Sinagovci is a documentary portrait of a community where reality and fantasy intertwine, and where meaning is found in the simple, dreamlike act of being.