The Dreamed Adventure, German writer-director Valeska Grisebach‘s gritty Bulgarian-set gangster drama that won the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, has been selected to represent Bulgaria in the 2027 Oscar Best International Feature Film race.
This year’s selection was made by a five-member committee led be chairman Mira Staleva with members Savina Petkova, The White Lotus actor Julian Kostov, Pavel G. Vesnakov and Kalin Kalinov. It is a co-production of Germany, France, Bulgaria and Austria.
The Bulgarian National Film Center said that The Dreamed Adventure “was entirely shot in Bulgaria with unprofessional actors, and the action is developed among Bulgarian characters and in Bulgarian.” It added that Griezebach spent five years exploring the region to make her sophomore feature (after 2017’s Western).