Irmena Chichikova

After graduating in London, the artist Zvezda has to return to Bulgaria to help her mother. She manages to arrange her first solo exhibition in a renowned Sofia gallery, but the dreamed opening triumph is canceled due to the Covid lock down. Zvezda decides to isolate herself in the gallery among her paintings as a living sculpture to be observed from the windows and online in a radical exhibitionism, risking her mother's health. The celebrity achieved at a time of deficient cultural events, however, comes at the expense of her humanity and values.

Spanning multiple generations and continents, Starlight follows the poignant journeys of four main characters as they traverse the bittersweet chapters of their lives, culminating in their ultimate struggles to overcome overwhelming obstacles relating to cancer. Yet, the heart of the film lies beyond the disease itself; it is a narrative of hope celebrating the power and perseverance of the human spirit, embodied and personified by these characters and their ability to triumph spectacularly against all odds.