Discoveries from Bulgaria World Cinema

Follows the rich history and traditions of the English Language School “Plovdiv” in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

The teenager was admitted to a specialized school for children with lung diseases. The teacher deliberately opposes the newcomer to the present time leader. This causes tension among children. The conflict worsens when a new boy tries to gain the trust of the collective by dishonest means.

The construction worker Spas decides to go on a holiday at a luxurious seaside resort where he can live "like the Swedish kings". He gets himself in strange and embarrassing situations, only to soon realize that real happiness is not in this coveted gilded world but among his work brigade buddies.

Anton is a former military pilot. Soon after his transition to civil aviation his wife leaves him. Despite his 45 years, he takes the change hard, the grief of his former job never leaves him. Anton and his crew are all people with interesting fates.

In a small provincial town, an young local artist exhibits his works. One of the paintings, depicting a fairy dance of naked women, provoke the people which discover similarities with a certain lady from the neighbourhood.

Dr. Stefanov is in the middle of a huge media scandal due to a patient's death. Antonia is a young journalist who bravely embarks on a journey to uncover what truly happened.

After seven decades of silence, it is the first Bulgarian movie telling the truth of the monstrous atrocities committed there against thousands of victims of the communist terror, a pointless carnage that has bereft this small country of an enormous human potential, much needed now, when the nation builds a real democracy.

After an accident at the work place, Lachezar Bareleff looses his time and nerves, circling through counters of public institutions to seek financial help.

While preparing the details for his own funeral, an elderly man realizes that he will be celebrating Christmas alone. Unable to fall asleep, he decides to spend the holiday at the grave of his deceased wife.

Edgar M. and his mother come abroad a small ship to Eden Sanatorium spa. It is here that the wife, wronged by her husband, will seek a cure for her bad headache, while the 13-year-old Edgar M. is fighting his first male impulses as well as 'enoresis nocturna', the prettier word for wetting one's bed. The boy's amazed gaze hungrily devours the diverse hotel guests, their love joys and sorrows, while passion lustfully penetrates the walls, carried by the voice of the enchanting opera singer.

Preparations for a carnival are under way in a Bulgarian town. People are very excited. They are head over heels in the forthcoming celebration and gradually, they lose their self-identities and adopt that of masks they put on. All of a sudden, a Stranger lands in the little town. Coming from another planet, he has the ability to impersonate the true image of everyone who violates another man. Misunderstandings and comical situations succeed each other. Quite a number of 'bad guys' come out...

The university student Bobchev joins a youth brigade. The commander's council entrust Bobchev with a literacy course for members of the brigade. Velizarov and Monkata arrive in the camp to carry out sabotage. They place explosives on the dam, and attempt to win Bobchev over by means of intrigue. There is a storm: the camp is put on the alert. Everyone joins the rescue work at the dam. After a long struggle with Velizarov, Bobchev cuts the burning fuse of the explosive. The dam does not yield to the pressure of the flood. Everymen sing in Jubilation.

Victor suffers from a rare neurological condition that prevents him from experiencing any sense of touch. Upon meeting Dia, he discovers that the two of them are connected in a strange way, and he can feel everything she feels.

Krum (45) is involved in a child trafficking group. Looking for his next victim he stumbles upon a little girl (5) who makes him his committed misdeeds. From being a hunter Krum becomes a sacrifice to his victim.

Captain Velkov was sent chief of a border post near the village of Novi Izvor, where he was a partisan. In Novi Izvor a celebration is being prepared to mark the switching on of the electricity. Saboteurs cut the cables, killed the watchman and set fire to the machinery on the farm.

A discovery complicates the relations in a family.

The devil is bored in his kingdom. He makes up his mind to descend to earth and get familiar with the kind of life people lead. He chooses the city of Sofia for his excursion. His first contacts are by no means encouraging. Strolling along the streets in the capital in his outlandish Mephistophelean costume, he is chased and stoned. Then the devil puts into operation his tiny machine for printing money. Dressed in the latest fashion he continues his walk unmolested. Money opens the doors of the richest homes for him and he soon becomes a member of the capital city's high life. The devil chooses a prostitute as his partner, who introduces him to her family. The father is a thief and a drunkard so that the mother is forced to be the bread-winner. Satan and the prostitute find themselves in the whirl of easy life.

Welcome to the Haunted House Hotel. The rooms are okay, the owner dangerously quirky and the murders deliciously unsolved. Although that might be about to change. When Edward DeWitt rises from the grave to solve his own murder, he brings along a camera so he can finally release a world-famous documentary. But will he solve the riddle of his death? Will the love of his life return his affections? And is Hollywood ready to accept its first deceased documentarian? The Haunted House Hotel is a murder mystery comedy about love, loss, and ectoplasm.

Shooting of a picture: to those, familiar with only from the screen, it is a entertainment. So, in a quiet Sofia street, a shooting crew starts their work. Bypassing begin to throng, curious people are looking out of the windows of the surrounding buildings. A scene is being shot of s short dialogue between the protagonists. It goes wrong all the time and is never complete. The mess gets beyond the comical, the true relations between the members of grew show and they do not look that excellent. At long last, the final scene is shot and the street is quiet again.

A boy travels through the whole city using one ticket.

Return "is a story about the price of revenge for the damage that it causes the person chosen to take on his way to the power of love - the only escape from the ghosts of the past and hope for a new beginning and new life.   The main hero Alexander Georgiev is a bank employee whose family was killed in an accident through the fault of an influential businessman. After the incident, Alexander was in a coma, during which things are arranged so that it becomes the main culprit for the tragedy. After a noisy process Alexander was sentenced to longer prison. When comes the end of his sentence, his life is completely shattered, but possessing only one thought - to take revenge on those responsible ...

A story about the crew of a Bulgarian ship on the way to Lagos.

April 1945. The Russian sniper Kolya joins the Bulgarian military contingent stationed in a Hungarian village. Kolya meets a Hungarian boy Yanush, with whom he shares his love of poetry. A German sniper is hiding in the woods and every day the death toll of the war grows higher. One day Yanush is killed by the German. Kolya seeks revenge.

Big fish chases a small fish. One of them is separated from the group. But she's in danger. In the water, it is chased by a large fish, on land-by a cat, in the air-by an eagle. The fish returns to the water and goes straight into the big fish's open mouth. But it is at this moment that the big fish bites the fishing rod. A small fish is resting. But a powerful blow to the tail of a big fish will put an end to its joy.

An idiosyncratic comedy about a father and son, masculinity and their stolen Batmobile.

Two schools, located in one building, are in a state of war. Alex and his friends assume the constant fighting with the elite school as a social riot, while Stephan, the literature teacher, desperately tries to show the guys another solution. Is it possible to convince them?

Ponko is one of the newly rich who made their fortune gambling as an elite player in a small town. In order to avoid dealing with other competitive players of the same kind, he settled a deal for himself to do time at a low security detention facility. He can still be in charge of his deal from prison with the help of his wife Rada. Yet, he bets and loses Rada to another prisoner at a game, which gives that man the right to spend a night with her, as well as to join the elite of players he is part of. Rada has feelings for Ponko's cousin but when she brings some money she has won at a game to him, she learns that he made a deal with Ponko to take care of her while he is in prison. She tries to get out of the vicious circle of crime but fails to do so. The corrupt world of blurred concepts of good and evil has engulfed them all and turned them into predators and victims of its poison.

A lawyer must decide whether to help a young man.

Anta, Evy, Lila and Talia were 20 in 2015 and studied at all-female Barnard College in New York. 2015 - 2045: 30 years and 3 films to see how they will shape the world from the inside out, becoming women on a fast changing planet.

This one-hour biblical drama recounts the thrilling story of the Old Testament prophet, Samuel. Samuel was called by God from a young age to speak God’s will to his people. Later, he would lead the Israelites in a decisive battle against the Philistines and would reluctantly appoint Israel’s first king. When King Saul disobeyed God, Samuel condemned him and secretly appointed David as King, setting off an epic struggle for power in the kingdom.

A young painter desperately tries to draw the best eyes for woman's face in his painting and mysteriously falls into the surrealistic world, created by his own imagination.

Earth shakes from the anger of the Zmei. Raven must find a new cook for his master. On Earth he finds Veselinov - a musician and an artist, father of Nadia.

A film about the dramatic and extraordinary fate of the lonely man who confronted the meat grinder of the communist regime. Georgy Konstantinov, 19 years old, blew up Stalin's monument in Sofia and death passed him by only because the dictator died two days later. He miraculously survived 10 years in prison and psychiatric wards and managed to escape to France. His State Security file numbers more than 40,000 pages. Even today, he does not cease to expose the crimes of the regime with the strength of truth and of his character.

A young man attempts to save a prostitute from a prostitution ring. His fury is two-sided: on one hand, it is caused by the futility of honesty, on the other hand, it is caused by the triumphs of treachery.

The film tells the story of a small circus from the favelas of the city of João Pessoa - the capital of the state of Paraíba in northeastern Brazil. It follows the lives of its “performers,” who take whatever work they can find during the day and, by night, transform poverty into art. The audience becomes an enthusiastic accomplice in this “illusion.”

Lily is a divorced mother of two - Martin and Alexandra. One cold winter evening Martin picks up Alexandra from kindergarten. In the dark streets of their neighborhood, they become part of a tragic incident that is hard to forget or erase.

Dimo Manchev (Partsalev), a 50-year-old head of family, has a conservative notion of upbringing and morality. Being familiar with his disposition, the Manchev's daughter Lili (Bratanova) married his sweetheart Plamen (Gadzhokov) in secret. The young couple cast about how to announce the marriage all the more that they are both still students studying in university. The hesitation grows when the father shows strictness even though they present their relation as some university friendship.

The experiences of a paper character crumpled, rolled up, distorted, thrown away, shaken about, ending up by an encounter which is both sweet and light.

Azis is a fearless, provocative, and talented musician who uses his exceptional voice, eccentric style, and bold attitude to challenge the homophobic and prejudiced views towards the Roma community in Bulgaria. Through his rise to fame, this short documentary captures the incredible journey of this extraordinary artist and the rise and decline of the Roma culture in Bulgarian society. With a unique perspective, this captivating film will take you on a journey of discovery, emotion, colors, glitter and the authentic music of the Balkans.

During Second World War a beautiful love between two young people burns out against the background of the Nazi reality.

The story follows the extreme coming-of-age of a boy during tragic events that tear his family apart.

In a small town, two married people fall in love. What difficulties they will face and how to cope with them.

One explosion takes place in the lab of the research institute of a chemical plant. Emil takes the blame. The director of the institute orders the work on the case to be suspended. After his jail sentence, Emil equips a lab in the dwelling he is renting. A little before the end of experiments there is another explosion. Emil is in the hospital. A friend announces him that the experiment was a success. Next to Emil is the girl he loves.

Somewhere in the space between reality and fairy tale, a medieval poet left in tragic loneliness sees, as if on a film, his entire past and the price he paid for his poems.

A family evacuates to the Bulgarian countryside during World War II

Bulgaran is a sophisticated and sociable man. While strolling through the city streets, he encounters a young woman and engages in playful banter with her. Unbeknownst to him, she has a plan to teach him a lesson.

Andrei isn't talking to his mother. Until his younger brother Philip disappears, leaving only his cell phone as a clue. This takes Andrei on a journey into the heart of darkness of his little brother's despair.

This is a film about love, ten bottles of vodka and a town that must sink. Because when hope is gone, Miracle is the last resort.

Why do we cheat in class? Why do they let us? In this short documentary we interview a class of high school students and study their motives behind deciding to cheat in class rather than study while witnessing it happening in action.

During a boxing match, Alexandra is knocked down. To return to the match, she must first overcome her past and present. Vision and words intertwine in Alexandra's mind where the real battle take place.

The film is a romantic comedy, inspired by the fairy-tale atmosphere of the Hofmann fantasies.

Assen explores rock monasteries in a Black Sea bay. He falls in love with Stella. For 11 years she has been waiting in vain for her missing lover. Asen reveals the truth about his death, but realizes that Stella would not be able to bear it. In order not to destroy Stella's fragile peace of mind, Asen leaves without saying anything to her.

A conversation with the great Bulgarian writer and playwright Yordan Radichkov about traditions, religion, folk psychology, cinema and theater and the relations between people.

After a successful concert, the famous singer Lina Dimova disappears. She travels to the seaside, where she pretends to be mute and lives in the cabin of Manol at the bed of Ropotamo River.

The Bash Master went on an organized trip to Hungary. In Budapest, he finds a way to get out of the group by faking an injury in order to make money from a private construction project. He meets his brother, who is the supervisor of the site, and asks him to employ him for the time he is there, but is flatly refused. He then manages to contact two of the builders and arranges for the theft of rebar...

In the village, snow-covered, you can hear the terrible howl of a wolf. One by one, the peasants ride on a sledge to kill him. However, each time the sleigh returns without a person. The women from the village are scared. They take it upon themselves to find their men and find them in a pub to eat and drink. The men are having fun, but don't forget to send someone outside to howl like a wolf. Women attack men.

Bianca Ilich's life changed forever when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. With her camera in hand, she courageously documented her journey as she faced the physical, emotional and psychological challenges of her treatment. This incredibly personal story is then expanded and enriched through the stories of two more women, Rosica and Slava, who bravely confront the same struggles in Amsterdam and Sofia, Bulgaria. Through these stories, an intimate and powerful mosaic of the effects of cancer on one's health and social life is revealed.

Television adaptation of the comedy "Mihal Mishkoed" by Sava Dobroplodni. Bay Mihal, one of the wealthy residents of the town, is in love with the beautiful Radka. A naive and somewhat foolish old bachelor approaching his fifties, he is determined to marry her at any cost. Around Bay Mihal, there are flattering matchmakers assuring him that she also loves him. He is generous and extravagant, blindly believing their words that they will persuade her to accept him. However, Radka has no idea that Bay Mihal has feelings for her.