Discoveries from Bulgaria World Cinema

Bobby lives in the Roma neighborhood with his large family and dreams of a piece of chocolate. Angry at his bad luck and his ever-eliding luck, he sets out across the big city in search of justice - and chocolate.

Vampire, thirsty for blood, searching for his next victim runs across an almost blind granny who takes the vampire for her goth teenager grandson and her loving care turns out to be deadly for him.

Facing a number of difficulties, a retiree from a desolate village cuts down a tree to survive the cold days. This act has an unexpected consequence.

Bulgarian animation film

Several short stories, showing what would happen if Prometheus tried to bring the gift of fire to the mankind in 20th century?

Bulgarian animation

Who will be idolized at the top of a column?

A composer writes music at the piano. The notes come alive. One of them turns into a cowboy. He is courting a beautiful lady. As a result, the horns grow on the portrait of her husband. On the pentolinium sheet, the deceived spouse organizes the persecution. They pass through a forest of black signs. They descend into the abyss by the stairs from the "sharp" signs. In the final, a duel takes place. But the bullet does not hit the opponent, but the lady's heart…

Desolate Dancho Kolev arrives in 1911 New York with the flow of emigrants seeking happiness and success. Through adventures and hardships, he becomes the invincible King of Catch – Dan Koloff – the fright of the ring for wrestlers throughout the world. This is true story of an unbelievable life turned into legend and a symbol of Bulgarian strength.

Audio visual glitch art.

A karakat is an unsinkable vehicle that every self-respecting resident of the Peipus shore assembles with his own hands. Originally intended to drive the owner to a fishing spot in the winter, today the karakat has become a unique “ice-taxi.” By observing several karakat-men’s routines, we aim to portray a fascinating culture of old-believers, self assembled hybrid vehicles and ice fishing in this part of Estonia.

A man rides a donkey on a dusty road. A woman follows. She is wearing a hayrick. The man is murmuring. The woman under the hayrick listens. And then the woman stops. And the man looks at her.

This is a story for two completely different generations and ages. Placed in an 'unusual' situation a father will manage in finding strength and hope first for himself in order to be able a role model for his little boy. Their Christmas pray will bring them together on the way to each other. This touching story will discover that life should not be defined. It should be perceived as a process and not as a category.

17-year-old Krasi, before coming of age, decided to take his own path in life. His mother supports him in this decision. He meets love, friendship, meanness. The plot is based on the relationship between Krasi and his friend Pepi. Two friends go to work on a large construction site. They turn into two sides of the same conflict-for principle and compromise.

Once upon a time, there were two fairies and two witches who didn't know each other and... who would never meet. But as fate would have it, they're about to embark on the same journey: to conquer their destiny, get to know each other better and discover each other.

The hero watches as people honor the monuments of great people. He is obsessed with becoming great. He takes out one eye, like Admiral Nelson. He cut off his ear to look like a Van Gogh. He knocks out the other eye to be blind like Homer. In the end, he sets himself on fire, like Giordano Bruno. But people don't notice him. . .

An elderly woman is sitting in her kitchen, cooking and talking to someone, explaining the recent happenings in the apartment complex she lives in, regarding a neighbor. She recalls stories told by others from the building and talks to the person on the phone about how she has barely seen him and about all the noise he causes and unexplainable behavior she's noticed. The whole situation is beginning to scare her.

Documentary gathers together portraits of craftspeople in Stolipinovo - a large, racially segregated urban district in Bulgaria. The film shows a cross-section of a community: young, old, modern, traditional - all with something in common, the desire to live and work in a dignified way, through hand-worked crafts. People in the film are both fragile and powerful in their raw honesty against the backdrop of increasingly precarious conditions of labor. "Inherited Crafts" carries a self-reflective style, being made by Osman Yuseinov, himself a craftsman, a master jeweler, working and living in Stolipinovo.

This is a story of a young girl in Ancient Greece. Among nymphs, satyrs and night shadows she is involved in a strange love story.

The police inspector makes a line up between Petka - a raped girl and three brothers. Petka points out Dimitar. The innocent young man is shocked. Dimitar meets with the father of Petka and offers him money. The father refuses. During the trial, the stories of Dimitar's friends are controversial. He is sentenced to four years in prison. Petka confesses that she has pointed Dimitar out of random. She likes his brother Trifon and she gave herself to him willingly, but his father threatened her and she decided to blame Dimitar.

a show of skill by a flea

an animated short about the news, entertainment and apathy

Seven-year-old Petyo can't wait to grow up and is counting the days until the start of the school year, when one sunny morning he is lied to by his mother that his father has gone abroad. Petyo is sent on an enforced vacation to the village. There, Petyo discovers friendship in the person of six-year-old Philip, and the two confront Taifa and Truth.

A man, Nikola Vaptsarov was sentenced to death on 23 July 1942 by a field court marshal of the then Bulgarian puppet government. Surprisingly enough, the then Communist leaders in charge of Vaptsarov's activities and tried by the same court, got off with lighter sentences and in the wake of the upheaval of 1944 stood at the helm of this country. A decade later, the world got to know that the man executed in the hot summer of 1942 was the greatest of all the Bulgarian poets born in the twentieth century. And his nearest and dearest took to cashing in on his popularity.

The authentic cinematic documentary was filmed by Alexander Zhekov at the front during the military conflict of 1912–1913. This is the earliest film entirely created by a Bulgarian author and one of the few works in the world that fully reflect a military conflict of that time.

The labyrinth of memories – temptation for anyone in love.

Planet Earth is a deserted island in an ocean of darkness and silence. Stranded on it, and the sole survivor of an apocalyptic disaster, is a child, desperately trying to get back to civilization. Dreamer is a dystopian fairytale, exploring the fear and anxiety felt by millions of young children growing up in a world full of uncertainty. What does the future hold for them? Can they dare hope for something good? A young boy’s nightmare may hold the key.

Marin, a middle-aged man, returns to his birthplace, nearly twenty years after he left.

A short documentary about Rakovski street in Sofia.

A child plays with flowers, butterflies and birds. Suddenly a huge man dressed in black appears. He begins to teach the child a lesson about plant and animal species. The teacher has many hands, each holding a pointer and killing all the beautiful species he talks about.

The Universal White Brotherhood is a community whose philosophy lies in opening their hearts to the light and to channelling a supreme cosmic rhythm through dance.

In the film we see a man trying to get to his home from work as fast as possible because he has left the tap water running. Through out the way there he starts a domino effect leading to the whole town getting flooded.

"The Big Boredom" is first of all a modern film, and then it is everything else - adventure, intelligence, spy, etc. Compared to the novel in the film, everything is condensed in a condensed dramatic form, the situation is exacerbated, the two main characters are in a direct battle of life and death, they have put everything on a decisive card and there is no possibility of retreat. I do not want to tell the story to keep the curiosity of the audience, but I emphasize that the film is completely in line with the genre. However, our aim is not to stay in the standards, but to fill the action with other content, and it gives meaning to everything else. " Metodi Andonov

From the rotten remains of a wooden cupboard a bunch of photographs spilled out: a young man on a white horse, two girls in polka dot dresses, and a group of soldiers...

In the autumn of 1987, the air in the Bulgarian city of Ruse contains more than ten times the normal ammount of chloride. The reason is apparent - the Romanian factory "Verahim", situated on the opposite shore of the Danube river. This documentary film showcases the local outcry and the political stance that the ruling body takes.

He is young and handsome and lives in Germany. Sometimes he is a she. He is honest with his mother. She understands him and accepts him. He has no father. He has an uncle in Bulgaria who knows only a part of his nephew – the masculine one. It’s time for the whole truth.

A peaceful day at the beach for the frogs is thwarted by an invasion of birds.

A young boy is visiting his uncle. Before bed, his uncle tells him a fairytale about the Sun.

An emergency call, a doctor who marvels at the dignity and love of an old couple. And Mozart.

ЮНАК [juˈnʌk] is a word often used in the Bulgarian folklore to describe a brave and intrepid youth. This work depicts a series of “unnecessary memories” from the director’s childhood. Reminiscences, not related to a significant event, unnecessarily stored in his mind. All shots in the film are abstract depictions of the director’s personal “unnecessary memories”.

A madhouse. Everyone can do whatever they want. One crawls, and the other walks on the ceiling. The third one hangs from the lampshade. The fourth one pops out of the nightstand like a cuckoo clock . . . Orderlies catch one of the patients. Doctors consider it normal. He began to march in the impersonal formation of normal people.

A man playing the song from the title is interrupted by the arrival of a helicopter.

Three friends use their last summer as teenagers to rediscover Bulgaria like they have never seen it before by going on a big road trip and getting lost on purpose.

A boy and his pets try to comfort a wee harmonica player after losing his tool to a fat grump.

Bulgarian director Gueorgui Balabanov has been living in France for many years but still closely follows developments in Bulgaria. His feature debut, The Petrov File, written by Oscar winner Jean-Claude Carrière, presented the country’s political transition through a story beginning in the 1980s and ending in modern-day Bulgaria..The film is a documentary story about events in Bulgaria in recent years. Et le Bal Continue is the director’s a brave view of the country’s development, its changing values and the consequences for society. The film follows the former Soviet satellite’s joining of the EU with hopes for the American dream deeply embedded in the psyche.

Under Ottoman rule, the artist Boyan secretly becomes the masked avenger “Halata,” defending villagers against the usurer Hristo and Ali Chaush’s oppression. When Tzveta discovers his dual identity, Boyan’s actions spark a national uprising as armed villagers rally to overthrow their tyrannical overlords.

A story about a writer and a young poetess

The film goes beyond the traditional facade of sport's battle for medals and explores the ethical dimensions of the efforts of the trainer and her modern and rhythmic gymnastics competitors, the price of success, the meaning of hard labor and Golgotha's vocation.The film reveals the hardships of the daily training routine of a rhythmic gymnastics group, repeating their moves over and over again while working towards perfection. There are short interviews with Neshka Robeva and Lilly Ignatova. We can see ambition and envy, the secret workings of being a referee at the European Championship in Wien, the impact of politics in sports completions favoring the USSR... The three girls on the winner's podium - Aneliya Ralenkova, Dilyana Georgieva and Lilly Ignatova, are seen at the end holding hands.

Bulgarian film version of the opera Ivan Susanin