A Month in the Life of Ephtim D.

This documentary takes a rare and intimate look at the life of a 73 year old pensioner currently living in Bulgaria following the collapse of the former Soviet Union. We follow Ephtim D. from the meagre dinner table where he and his wife dine on some bread with a little margarine and garlic, to the park where he walks his dog and meets his friends.

Asen Balikci

Canadien-Bulgarian by nationality, Dr. Asen Balikci (b.1929, Turkey) has worked in the field of ethnographic filmmaking and ethnography for over fifty years. His interests are human ecology in arctic and arid zones (Canadian Arctic, Ethiopia, Afghanistan); anthropology and education; anthropology and museology; visual anthropology; interethnic relations (SW Bulgaria); the culture of poverty in post-socialist Bulgaria. He received his PhD in Anthropology from Columbia University with his graduate work in geography and economics, Switzerland. Dr. Balikci was Professor of Anthropology at Département d'anthropologie, Université de Montréal from 1969 until his retirement in 1994.

Anna Balikci has a PhD in Social Anthropology. She lives in India, were she studies the Sikkim. Anna Balikci is research-coordinator at Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Sikkim. She supervises local researchers, advising foreign scholars and generally promoting/organising research in Sikkim.

Dawa Tsering Lepcha was born in 1974 and graduated (BA) from Sikkim Government College and followed Film training from National Institute of Film and Fine Arts, Kolkota. Dawa Tsering Lepcha made several films about the traditions and customs of the Lepcha.