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The years after the First World War. Captain Abarov sees that his dreams, feelings, and ideals are in ruins. His family is broken. His friends are desperate. There is only one way out for Abarov-to leave this world.
A gambling-addicted clerk, Pavel Simov, ruins his family and vanishes. His wife Rinka, wrongfully imprisoned, reunites with their son years later. When Simov returns, violence erupts—but a final act of redemption brings forgiveness. As Easter bells ring, the family finds hope and a new beginning.
New News From Another Home relates to its iconic original like a doppelgänger narrative. Almost fifty years after Chantal Akerman read out letters her mother sent her during her first stay in New York over images of the foreign city’s urban canyons, subway stations and building facades, Borjana Ventzislavova embarks on a personal journey through Akerman’s revered work. Images of the original locations are accompanied by emails from Ventzislavova’s mother, the tone of which is a combination of concern and gentle admonitions (the daughter sometimes writes too rarely and says too little), not unlike Natalia Akerman’s letters. “Dear Bube…” is how the “new news” begins, in which the mother reports about her everyday life in Bulgaria: the weather, health problems, family gatherings.
This project features a group of workers at an archaeological site in the Sub-Balkan region of eastern Bulgaria. Their confessions to the camera explore the conditions of contemporary life as the country, shaped by over thirty years of lethargic political transition, transitions from the lev currency to the euro.
A freudian interpretation of the sexual complexes of a lovely human. Is it possible that an expected present will solve his/her problem?
Ghalib is a descendant of musicians from an Alevi village. When the last dede in the community dies, the villagers choose him as their religious leader, but he refuses because is still young. However, fate seemed to have something else in store for him.
Jemal is a musician and saz player. He became seriously ill 19 years ago and doctors did say he has a few months to live. His wife Barika began studying remedies and folk medicine, instead of waiting for death to come.
A couple spends a long night of contemplation about the future of their relationship under unusual circumstances and substances.
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.
Once a year, the Bulgarian tradition of Kukeri unites a small village as residents wear intricate masks and costumes and dance at night. Killian Lassablière chronicles the practice in his short documentary.
Fast paced animation made from traditional ink drawings; brush and dip pen.
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.
A sleepless night. A gray room. A woman lies numb in her bed with eyes inspecting the ceiling. Worries, memories, dreams, refracted through the reflection in the mirror... After night like this, what does the morning bring us?
A night time animated walk within the poetic universe of Bulgarian poet Hristo Smirnenski. Getting in touch with the poetic environment, emotion and the kids whose spirits are broken by the misery of everyday life.
Part of the life cycle, from birth to physical death, symbolically collected from sunrise to sunset in a day, as short as human life is short in the eternal circle of time and space, in a picturesque village, through a generalized picture of the idyllic rural lifestyle of their everyday life, marked by folk tradition.
A new man is born in the habitat. Kicked out by the others he follows a new direction. How far will he go?
Bittersweet echoes of first love. Wonderlust and nostalgia interrupt the days of a teenage boy, as he tries to make sense of it all. Spiraling down the maze of time, in search of a sacred feeling, forever lost.
Animation based on a children’s song.
A mischievous baby embarks on death-defying adventures in the world of adults.
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 story about two pilots
Veska is a naive, clumsy girl, who longs for money and fame. Desperate by her bad luck, she leaves her home in search for happiness. On the road she meets her mentor - the beautiful but short tempered street prostitute, Beba. The unexpected series of failures leads Veska closer to her dreams.
Three fools go for a drive... or at least try to.