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The documentary film "Following the footsteps of Ivan Vazov in Sofia" traces and highlights individual themes and plots from the life and creative life of the great master of Bulgarian literary expression, who has left his mark on our capital to this day.
A young girl is haunted by whispers of past memories with Josh, who quietly walks away from her life, leaving her feeling empty.
Anna is a beautiful girl, but she is confined to a wheelchair. Every night, Anna talks to radio journalist Rado. He uses Anna for his radio program. It's a miracle. Anna begins to walk.
A woman browses photographs of a young girl. The child visits Disneyland, celebrates birthdays and poses with her parents. But the woman does not recognise the girl, even though it is her. Filmmaker and visual effects artist Yana Lineva distorts images and memories to draw a parallel with a puzzling event from the 90s, when hundreds of people flocked to a Bulgarian airport to welcome aliens that were supposed to look just like us.
"My film is by no means about gay culture or gay art. It is simply a documentary about people who are different, viewed from a purely human perspective. I sympathize with the characters in this film just as I do with all the characters in my other films." - Ilko Dundakov
Two old friends and neighbours (a gardener and a mole) in the wilderness, waiting for the wind, which will help them fulfil an absurd dream.
The question that drives the narrative of this film is whether his poetry continues to move people today. Do our contemporaries have a sensitivity to his words, images and ideas, or do they perceive them as part of an irretrievably gone past? Does his bright and tragic personality provoke the imagination, or does his name only activate the hollow admiration learned at school for the "genius of Bulgarian poetry"? The film goes through the personal history of the poet to try to understand the fiery extremity of his love, his pathos as a revolutionary and patriot, the psychological depth and existential problematic of his poetic texts.
"Losers" is a film that presents the relationship between two close friends. Death is something that is seen as both frightening and sad. A person’s uncertainty about how to behave with friends is no less frightening and sad. Knowing how to treat the people around you well means living a new, different life. Good relationships with others are achievable if we are able to look at life from the outside.
A man who takes a mysterious journey through the vein of his beloved, and while witnessing her inner world, experiences his deepest dreams and longings. The film is based on the poem “Shallow Vein" by Marin Bodakov and is part of the animated series "Stroke and Verse".
Angel, a young Gypsy man, starts his day collecting trash from the landfill and garbage containers. While defending what he has gathered, he faces various ups and downs and conflict situations. However, by the end of the day, the accumulated garbage takes on a different meaning.
Murder in the second degree does not relieve guilt... Based on the work of Georgy Gospodinov.
The adventures of a pair of lady shoes.
Mysterious animation about a pianoplayer who played with his partner on an ocean ship in the past, leaving him a lot of memories and pictures on the wall.
Ina is a girl who is waiting for her graduation and farewell ball. Occasionally, one night, she meets in a discotheque the most famous boy in the school – Martin. Absolutely consciously, he is going to drag her to the 20th-century pandemic – AIDS. This is going to provoke a series of events and different people where the virus is spreading as a children’s game – as a tag. You have time only to pronounce: “You are it!”…
Nothing in the world is only black and white.
How did the first Coca-Cola bottle get sneaked through the Iron Curtain into the communist bloc in 1965? This story is a good chance to take a cheerful look at those bleak times back then.
A small aphid is born in a colony of aphids. It has a strange color. Its mother is trying to bathe it. A shaman does magic against the bad color. All efforts are in vain. Suddenly it rains and washes the bodies of the aphids. It turns out that everyone's color is the same as that of a small aphid.
A little cockerel digs in the ground and notices a worm. He starts to pull it, but after the worm, a dog, a fox, a worker, and a train come out of the ground. The locomotive is decorated with flowers and flags. He moves quickly back, accompanied by a mighty shout of "Hurrah!".
Central in the animation is a box with toy blocks. Joined, they can show 6 different images of fairy tales if you turn them with the right side up. Those images in the animations are alive, but there is also a little girl, the owner of the box, who turns them around in the middle of some of the fairy tales, but she also has toy puppets that can continue the cell animations as puppet animations, but whatever happens, the wolf is sure to get the blame.
A mischievous toddler goes into a subway, turns into a flower, messes up the escalator, and finally boards the metro. The authorities are after him.
The child is still in the baby cot, but Mom and Dad want to make him a great musician. They bring a violinist teacher to the child. The child shoots him with a violin, like a bow. The next teacher is a pianist. Both he and the piano run away from the child. In front of the teacher-singer, the child screams like an Indian. He even breaks the baby's cot. When the carpenter comes to fix it, the child calms down for the first time and helps the master.
The eagle, the sun, the mole, the owl and the fish argue over who sees farther. Each of them passionately claims that his gaze is the most important and sings the song "Further Away" aloud. While the answer lies elsewhere.
Stadium. The athlete is preparing for the start. He runs down the long jump path. Tension lines his face. He lands, turns into an old man. A person's whole life is one long jump.
The short and troublesome relation between a man and a mosquito.
The rabbit becomes a friend with a pink balloon. An evil hunter appears who wants to shoot the rabbit. The balloon lifts the rabbit into the sky. They reach a planet that looks like a cabbage. The rabbit is hungry. It's eating up the planet. They return to earth. There's a hunter waiting for them. He raises his gun, but the balloon hides his friend. The bullet breaks the balloon to pieces. The resin drips from the pine like a tear. With it, the rabbit sticks his faithful friend.
At night, a little mouse wanders around the nursery. The mouse nibbles at the fringe on the carpet and the trash can. And then there's the hazelnut. It gets up on the table and sees a pencil-very suitable for nibbling. The pencil asks him to wait - it wants to draw something for the last time. First the cheese is drawn, then the apple is added, and then the sausage. But when the pencil adds a mustache to the drawing, it turns out that it is a cat. The mouse is afraid and runs away.
A short(?) movie made by a group of teenagers for fun It tells 5 (6-ish?) different stories different from one another, taking place in 5 different universes that are variations of one another.
A short film with slavenapetkova1234567890, because she started telling interesting stories during a photoshoot.
A film by Fajr Yacoub inspired by a story by the Bulgarian writer Elin Pelin
A documentary journey into the masked traditions of Bulgaria and Italy - where ritual, identity, and spirit become one.
The story of an encounter in a doctor's office, the discovery of a natural phenomenon, and the attempt to study it through the prism of the absurdity of life and death. An animation based on the short story "Thorough Investigation" by Daniil Kharms.
A son and a father go hunting deep in the woods. Trying to prove his courage, the son makes a fatal mistake.A son and a father go hunting deep in the woods. Trying to prove his courage, the son makes a fatal mistake.
A documentary short about yurts quickly turns eerie.
Weaving Fit for Kings — a Dying Craft Clings to Life." In a quiet corner of Bulgaria, one family is fighting to save a centuries-old tradition. They weave not just rugs, but history — blending ancient techniques with modern computer graphics in a last attempt to keep the craft alive. But the work is hard, the hours long, and the younger generation is drifting away. Without the skilled hands of master weavers, even the most innovative technologies can't stop this noble art from slipping through the cracks of time.
An inspiring story about the winding road of the first Roma actress in Bulgaria, officially graduated from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. From the everyday life's challenges, to the sacrifices in the name of theater, and the trust in the great Roma cause - education for the ghetto. Nataliya Tsekova - THE WOMAN, THE ACTRESS, THE PERSON.
This is a story inspired by the Bulgarian folklore in which we come across mythical creatures, love, and magical music that have the power to change the world.
The story of a director and her almost 20-year quest across Bulgaria and Africa working with children at risk.
The child prodigy of communist Bulgaria lives in a small apartment in Lyulin. The state has promised Vasco to study at a prestigious music school in the West, but the death of a top party functionary replaces New York with Moscow. There, Vasco's talent is forged under the harsh laws of a school with three hundred years of history, until the next historical event turns the orbit of his entire family's life.
Following the abrupt chase and murder of a young girl, a cryptic message unfolds inside her abandoned dictionary book.
The film tells the story of Bulgarian yogurt and its popularization in Japan, which began in 1970 at the Osaka International Exhibition Expo. It traces how Bulgarian yogurt won the hearts of the Japanese and became a globally recognized product.
At the summer baths in the village of Lujene (today a district of Velingrad) a competition for “Queen of the Beach” is held. In addition, high-diving and other recreational activities young people by the pool enjoy are revealed, along with another competition being held at the same event.
Vessa Tonova, a Bulgarian classical ballet dancer, is getting ready to retire after 25 years. Performing Swan Lake for the very last time, she speaks of her past and, more importantly, her future. An intimate conversation from the dancer's dressing-room.
On the last night before his execution, Levski invited his former friends and comrades to a secret supper. The commander Panayot Hitov, the head of the Secret Revolutionary Police - Hristo Ivanov-Golemiya, the wife of the chairman of the Bulgarian Revolutionary Central Committee - Natalia Karavelova, and others arrived: Dimitar Obshti, Atanas Popchinov, Vutio Vetov, Father Matei, and the murdered boy. Levski asks questions, and his companions answer and accuse each other. Everyone has their own excuse and their own "truth." Only Levski remains steadfast in his loyalty to the people, until his death.
A black briefcase accompanies a child in his life from the very moment of his birth. He devotes all his attention to the case. Nothing can distract him: not a girl on a swing, not a funny clown. The hero resists various temptations - sports, women, restaurants, fishing, travel. Because of his passion for the briefcase, he remains indifferent to those in need of help. When he gets old, he opens the briefcase and realizes that it is his coffin.
A woman wakes up at home. She looks at her garden, mindful of the concealed rhythms of plants and animals. A moose visits her. She follows it and there begins a strange journey where the world and her flow together, until they become one. Director Unt creates a beautiful story of rebirth and emancipation. To achieve this, she uses several animation techniques for each step she makes, each metamorphosis she undergoes, from cut-outs to moving sand, from traditional 2D to point-of-view shots. The viewer can appreciate the textures, the tactile quality of the film, and, at the same time, how the main character gets freer in the frame. There’s indeed an expert lightness of touch at work here.
Toma and Elena bid farewell to their recently deceased, 5 years old son through VR technology. For Elena, this turns into a dangerous obsession. Toma is forced to delete the project.
For decades, Theo Jansen has toiled on the beaches of the Netherlands in his quest to make his beloved Strandbeests self-sufficient. But what happens when, as the artist pursues his dream to create new life, he starts to feel his own slipping away?
A brief look into a boy's average day.
A group of 6 friends are playing poker at home, and discuss how they could cheat in poker at a casino.
A loving husband’s quest to find a replacement breast for his cancer-stricken wife ends up in the botany books.
Bulgarian animation film
It is only the child who is able to view the world with a pure heart and to laugh at it lovingly and to justify it through laughter. Anna mocks stupidity, injustice, ugliness in human behavior. At times, she also exposes herself to ridicule in her impulse to gain knowledge of the world. She makes us laugh but she also evokes love.
