SOFIA — At the end of I See Red People, a 2018 documentary that follows a young Bulgarian woman’s search into her family’s communist past, the mother of the filmmaker reprimands her daughter: “My truth,” she says, “does not belong to you.”
By that point, relations between director Bojina Panayotova and her mother, Milena Makarius, are at rock bottom following the discovery, over the course of filming, that her mother was listed in the state archives as a collaborator of the communist-era secret police.
