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THE DREAMED ADVENTURE

A feature film by Valeska Grisebach
DE/FR/BG/AT, 164 min

In a border town in southeastern Bulgaria, an Archaeologist becomes involved in an illegal trade to help a man with whom she shares a special bond. Embarking on a perilous adventure, she ends up confronting both her own past and her desires.

THE DREAMED ADVENTURE is a green production.

SALES/DISTRIBUTION

Word Sales: The Match Factory
Distributor AT: Filmgarten
Distributor DE: Piffl Medien

PRODUCTION COMPANIES

Komplizen Film
Kazak Productions
Miramar Film
New Matter Films

FUNDERS/TV

BKM
Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
DFFF
FFA German-French Mini Treaty
ZDF/Arte Grand Accord
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
FFA
Media Creative Europe
Arte France Cinema
CNC German-French Mini Treaty
CNC Cinéma du monde
NFC Bulgarian National Filmcenter
Austrian Film Institute
Film Fund Vienna
ÖFI+

AWARDS

Cannes International Film Festival 2026
Prix du Jury

CREDITS

Cast: Yana Radeva, Syuleyman Letifov, Stoicho Kostadinov, Nikolay Shekerdjiev, Denislava Yordanova, Tiana Georgieva

Written & Directed by: Valeska Grisebach
Co-Author: Lisa Bierwirth
Development Producer: Margarita Kudrina, Henrike Meyer
Director of Photography: Bernhard Keller
Production Design: Sabina Christova
Costume Design: Eka Bichinashvili
Re-Recording Mixer: Kai Tebbel
Sound Design: Atanas Tcholakov
Production Sound: Momchil Bozhkov
Editing: Bettina Böhler

Producers: Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade
Co-Producers: Valeska Grisebach, Jean Christophe Reymond, Amaury Ovise, Mila Voinikova, Ilian Djevelekov, Lixi Frank, David Bohun,
Luise Hauschild, Mariam Shatberashvili

FESTIVALS

World Premiere: Cannes Film Festival - Official Competition 2026

Sydney Film Festival
Filmfest München
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Jerusalem International Film Festival
Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival
New Horizons International Film Festival
New Zealand International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival

PRESS

"Both grittily realist and other-worldly”
Lee Marshall, SCREEN DAILY (Review: Exhilarating Bulgarian borderlands fable makes expert use of non-professional cast)

""The Dreamed Adventure" wholly subverts genre tropes, hewing to a deliberately meandering pace as it embeds in this world with little narrative urgency."
Ben Croll, THE WRAP (Review: Valeska Grisebach’s Unhurried Gangster Drama Defies Convention)

Everytime

ICE CREAM

A feature film by Valeska GrisebachDE/FR/BG/AT, 164 min

A feature film by Valeska Grisebach
DE/FR/BG/AT, 164 min