Synopsis

This metaphorical surrealist tale is an allusion. Nightingales in Decemberis a trip into the memories, and the fields of the current realities. What if the Nightingales were working, instead of singing and going south? Is innocence the only saviour of bird’s songs? There are no Nightingales in December... What is left is only the history of our beginning and our end.

Theodore Ushev

Born in Kyustendil, Bulgaria, Theodore Ushev first made a name for himself as a poster artist in his native country before settling in Montreal in 1999. In Montreal, Ushev worked in the multimedia industry and then found fruitful creative soil at the National Film Board of Canada, where he has made more than 10 films to date, including Lipsett Diaries (2010), about the tortured life and art of the acclaimed experimental filmmaker, and the Academy Award-nominated short Blind Vaysha (2016). Ushev’s films have won more than 150 awards and mentions and have screened in many retrospectives.