Fest10.11: Documentary "In the Kitchen of My Heart" with a Discussion

What changes inside a kitchen when society is undergoing seismic change outside? Where do the flavors that shape the imagination of Myuzeyen Suleyman — a chef from a Bulgarian-Turkish family in the Ludogorie region — come from as she creates a signature dessert? What secret ingredient does Vienna Conservatory graduate Velichka Obreykova pass on to her granddaughter when, after September 9, the prominent Plovdiv family loses both its factories and its family kitchen? What makes the recipe for an iconic soup at a small Roma tripe-soup shop so enduring that not a single spice has changed in 26 years? Anna Stoeva's "In the Kitchen of My Heart," told through the poetic images of Romanian cinematographer Carmen Tofeni, uses food to ask questions about past and future, tradition and freedom, the impossibility of holding on to the old, and the unceasing energy of transformation into something new.