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- Together, a filmmaker and her characters venture into a personal research project about intimacy. On the fluid border between reality and fiction, Touch Me Not follows the emotional journeys of Laura, Tómas and Christian, offering a deeply empathic insight into their lives.
- Belgrade, 2003. When Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic is assassinated, the country plunges into chaos, and the authorities' response is to introduce a state of emergency. A turning point in recent Serbian history through the perspective of a journalist, a police officer, and a criminal.
- The scandalous journalist Dimo and his wife Kalina separate, and their separation seems quite peaceful and amicable at first. Dimo starts a new life, free of responsibilities and full of distractions. He only wants to keep seeing his son Bobby, whom he loves very much, but Kalina has been hurt and turns the child against him. Bobby develops the Parental Alienation Syndrome and starts despising his father. Dimo is shocked by his ex-wife's behavior and throws himself into a desperate battle over his son, while being denied access to him for months on end. He comes face to face with the absurdities of a biased court, the clumsiness of the social services, and with public opinion, which takes the side of the mother by default. The battle between his parents makes Bobby angry with everyone and everything, and he starts misbehaving at school. Would Bobby be able to overcome the trauma?
- The young Demir dreams of a wedding. But his Roma tower block at the outskirts of a provincial town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. 25 years ago it had all it takes for panel socialist heaven: from parquet floors to intercom, the coveted hot water central, street lamps, benches under murmuring apple trees. Someone called the place Paradise Hotel - and the name stuck. But now? The parquet disappeared. The water stopped. The lights went off. And if you cross the field behind Paradise Hotel, you will see Bozhidar "The God Given" who protects everyone from evil and excessive happiness in a documentary about panel integration, love, misery, a lot of dreams, a little lyrics and one Gypsy wedding.
- The Last Black Sea Pirates swim in testosterone and rugged tenderness in a land of wilderness and legends, far from civilization. For 20 years, Captain Jack The Whale and his crew have been drinking, dreaming and hunting for a treasure buried in the gully of Karadere, the pristine beach they call home. But someone else has got wind of Karadere's treasures. When news of imminent change begin to find its way to this remote oasis, the pirates' world begins to unravel. Doubts erode the foundations of trust, conflicts brew, tensions are on the rise. In this crisis, emerges a contemporary fairy tale about the treasures we hunt and those that we find.
- Chronicles Stephen C. Apostolof's rise from Eastern-European fugitive to producer and director of sexploitation films in the 60's and 70's, his turbulent relationship with infamous Ed Wood and his downfall in the late 70's with advent of hardcore pornography.
- The film explores the paradox of exemplary behaviour of murderers currently serving life sentences in Lukiskes Prison in Vilnius and hoping to return to society.
- TV SeriesOne day, a previously criminal, now leading a law-abiding life, begins to suspect that he is trapped in false memories when he meets a girl who looks exactly like the love of his life murdered in Tallinn back in the turbulent 90's.
- A small town and its hopeful citizens are about to embark on a bright new journey. Massive rusty cranes, foreign investors, and the joyful chants of cheerleaders carry the dream of a great nuclear future. Disturbed only by gigantic stinging mosquitoes, the townsfolk celebrate the atomic hurray by engraving the nuclear power plant logo on buildings and soup bowls. Amidst the apparent atomic prosperity, lies a past that no one wants to remember. An island holding terrifying secrets. Stories of shocking and horrible crimes loom on the city just like the dark clouds of mosquitoes descending on its citizens. A world instantly transformed by ideologies, regimes and dreams of economic prosperity. The tales of characters whose lives intersect in a sinister past, nuclear future and the stinging mosquitoes flying through time, sealing their fate together. From the team behind the IDFA Silver Wolf award-winner "Georgi and the Butterflies".
- Corridor #8 is a mosaic "non-road" film capturing the moods, prejudices and the hope of its characters who live along a non-existent Balkan road, "far away, so close" to each other. The road passes through the countries of Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania and is also a huge EU infrastructural project meant to link the Black and the Adriatic Seas, already a decade in the planning.
- Nine honorable ladies, descendants of Sephardi Jews in Bulgaria tell about their life and Sephardi traditions in Ladino - the language spoken by Sephardi Jews after they were expelled from Spain in 1492. Today Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish) is a language spoken by few people in the world, and these ladies are probably the only ones, who still speak this language in Bulgaria. In Ladino they share memories of their childhood, youth and the greater part of XX century, which they have witnessed. Beautiful songs, delicious masapan (marzipan in Ladino) and wisdom in a beautiful film about the need to keep living memory.
- A documentary about the Occupation, as seen through the eyes of occupiers. Five countries from within the Warsaw Pact occupied Czechoslovakia in 1968.
- The film tells the story of Marcel Cellier who traveled to Eastern Europe, where he collected and documented sounds that were up until then unknown in the west. They made this music internationally known and paved the way to success for musicians like the Romanian pan-flute virtuoso Gheorghe Zamfir and the legendary Bulgarian female vocal choir 'Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares'. On the tracks of the Celliers, the film travels to Eastern Europe to again find the protagonists from that time and let the wealth of their music live again. In the contrast of meetings from back then and today, a piece of contemporary history is experienced, which tells about the changes of people and their surroundings as well as the immortality of timeless music.
- The birth of the first internationally known Bulgarian pop star. Valentina Hassan, 29, from the village of Zvezdelina sang "Ken Lee" (her own version of Mariah Carey's song "Without You") at an audition for the Bulgarian version of the world famous TV series "Music Idol". Within a few months her performance has been watched by more than 17 million people on the internet. "Ken Lee" interpreted by dozens of fans all over the world, edited one after another in a panopticon of people's faces - from Japan to America - following in the footsteps of the Bulgarian phenomenon. The film has been produced within 15 - the first BG omnibus film comprising 15 short films about the last 15 years of our life by 15 acclaimed contemporary Bulgarian authors in film, theatre and visual art.
- The incredible adventures in capitalism of psychiatrist Dr. Georgi Lulchev and the Home #6 for Psychologically Challenged Men.
- Kyustendil, a sleepy town in the Bulgarian mountains, has been hit by Covid, hard. In a close-knit community, patients meet former classmates in the same hospital room. Banter can often be heard through corridors, but death is never far. Many patients live in constant fear of deteriorating quickly and being sent 'upstairs'. 'Upstairs' is the intensive care unit, where only a handful are known to have survived. Presiding over the perpetual stream of complicated cases is Dr. Popov. Tall and kind-hearted, for some he has a witty line, for others a quote from Kant. Some of them misfire, but through the quiet dread in the hospital, he emits a mountain of human warmth. Unexpectedly, light and laughter echo through the hospital halls.
- The times before 1989. The Fall of the Berlin wall, which separated Europe in Western and Eastern blocks. When even the commodity items as Western candy bar wrappers were collected by Eastern block kids. Outdated Western magazines were kept as small treasures. Many memories which seem ridiculous today, but put a heavy stamp on a whole generation.
- A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.
- Our modern life is largely designed by engineers. They like to invent and structure things and they are more at ease with figures and natural science than in relations with the opposite sex. Atanas, a Bulgarian computer engineer claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely and shy engineers find real love and real happiness? As he tries to develop a scientific formula for the perfect relationship, he uses other engineers as his guinea pigs; teaches them his ideas and sends them out to test them in the real world. He guides his subjects with wireless transmitters during their set up meetings with potential candidates: beautiful young women. Are the rules of attraction, sex and love scientific and if they are, do we really want to know them?
- The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.
- Explores the strange history of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha who became Bulgaria's tsar at age 6, then was exiled during years of communism and returned to be elected Prime Minister.
- Aliona's father, a silent dissident and Chernobyl engineer, mysteriously disappears into the sea one day. Twenty years later, Aliona leaves her country, Belarus, to write a novel about this story, in a language other than her own.
- While a woman makes an omelet, we learn how difficult it is to make ends meet.
- On the occasion of Bulgaria's upcoming accession to the EU in 2007, the film gives insight into Bulgaria as well as its newest history. The authors explore the contemporary reality and public opinions of the country, which had been advertised with the slogan "Where in the world is Bulgaria?" The film talks about the Bulgarian transition from communism to democracy through the life stories of two people: the former boy-king and recent Prime Minster of Bulgaria Simeon Saxcoburggotski and his namesake and coeval Simeon Kostyanev, a professor of geophysics. The stories of the two - Simeon, the boy-king and Simeon K., the farmer's son, lead us through the contradictions and agitations of the newest Bulgarian history. Interviews and documentary observation are combined with the comments of influential and important for the transition period in Bulgaria personalities, as well as of ordinary people who have witnessed key historical moments. This way various aspects of the life in Bulgaria within the last 60 years are explored, along with the expectations of the Bulgarian people from the EU.
- "Besides from Macedonia, many Bulgarians from Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, and the Western Outlands are applying for Bulgarian citizenship; how would you define this - is it a return to roots or rather an interest to European opportunities? - Both. Probably for some of these Bulgarians the call of the homeland prevails, while for others, it's the whisper of the European dream. I believe this is a wonderful combination. We can only be happy about this." Excerpt from an interview with Vice President Angel Marin by Focus Agency, 18-08-2006 The film has been produced within 15 - the first BG omnibus film comprising 15 short films about the last 15 years of our life by 15 acclaimed contemporary Bulgarian authors in film, theatre and visual art.
- The dreamlike drama revolves around Philip, who has it all: a successful career and a beautiful girlfriend. However, he is still taking care of Victor, his sensitive brother, years after the death of their parents. Emma is slightly autistic, fallen out of time. At night, she crafts a miniature model of a mystical garden in the back of her flower shop, where Victor works. Emma lives in spheres completely beyond Philip's reach. Through her garden, Philip realizes that he never felt so real until he met this otherworldly girl, he's falling in love with. His life is transforming - until Victor confesses that he, too, is in love with Emma. Torn between the love for his brother and for Emma, Philip feels the pain of loss for the first time.
- It wasn't done before, it is for the first time that we open these particular files from the archives of Communist State Security. There is a video tape enclosed. In 1989 Simon Varsano was interrogated before the camera. Shot in the legs, freshly undergone complicated surgery, he is lying on a bed in a guarded police hospital. And he answered the questions of the interrogator, a State Security officer. The accusation was that the young photographer Varsano has written on the walls. Subject of writings: slogans against the communist totalitarian leader. Tool: "Salamander" shoe polish. It was on the eve of the big political transition. The communist regime in Bulgaria fell in a coup "inside" in the party. Revolution without gunshots. The only person shed blood was Simon Varsano - Recently Simon saved a drowning man and said that he had slept like a baby after that. He admitted the only time he had felt like this was after having written on the walls. What should a man do nowadays to sleep like a baby again? - Simon wouldn't tell about his wounding and arrest, about interrogation and investigation. And he would never watch the video film with his questioning. Never until today. A very personal view of author Georgi Tenev on the personal story of Simon Varsano.
- The sentimental journey of a contemporary Bulgarian film crew through Eastern Europe following the trail of famous Dutch documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens and scriptwriter Marion Michelle from 1947-1949.
- A charming tale of a young man from Bulgaria forging a path in the historic craft of violin-making.
- In front of the microphone in a bar on the outskirts of Sofia, Dessy, a singer who can't see and never could, tells a story of happiness, fear, hope, dreams, and her unbiased vision of the world around us. She stands in front of the microphone, calm and concentrated, while the clients enthusiastically demand more and more songs. Between two sets she tells us what she loves, what she fears, what she dreams of and how she "sees" the big events in the world. The film has been produced within 15 - the first BG omnibus film comprising 15 short films about the last 15 years of our life by 15 acclaimed contemporary Bulgarian authors in film, theatre and visual art.
- What has and hasn't changed in Bulgaria over the past 15 years? What does the day on which Bulgaria rose up united and which has remained one of the very few heroic moments of the transition period mean? A group of friends took a TV set out into the yard in front of their block of flats and are watching a rerun of the 1994 World Cup football match that made all Bulgarians proud. 2008, evening, Sofia, Bulgaria. The film has been produced within 15 - the first BG omnibus film comprising 15 short films about the last 15 years of our life by 15 acclaimed contemporary Bulgarian authors in film, theatre and visual art.
- The film is a documentary portrait of Jorgen Leth, structured around the poem The Perfect Human. Norway, September 2004. The young filmmaker meets one of his idols - the famous Danish film director Jorgen Leth. They decided to make a movie together. The film has been shot for a day in the hotel's lift, which was Schindler's lift.
- Welcome to the picturesque world of the Kalderash Roma - a closed community of no more than 1 million people all over the world. 'Concrete Pharaohs' take us on a journey into the lifestyle and traditions of the most hidden and intriguing Roma communities. A charismatic Gypsy baron will walk us through his stories and his new house. We will learn the hot trends in Roma tombstone design. We will go down into the underground homes of African granite, furnished with beds, wardrobes, stereos and a charged cell phone - a direct line to the other world. A celebration of life and afterlife in all of their manifestations.
- Born in a wealthy family Tzvetanka passionately dreamed of becoming an actress as a child, but the history of her country completely changed her destiny.
- During the new season's first episode, the four explorers are traveling towards the Pirin mountain, where they will see one of the last Karakachan sheep herds and will learn more about the Karakachani's nomadic lifestyle.
- Explore Bulgaria's team starts its journey across the Rhodope Mountains. Before finding the largest butterflies in Bulgaria and Europe, the four explorers will visit an interesting rock formation and try their climbing skills on it.
- The explorers will descend into the Ivanova voda cave, hoping to find one of Bulgaria's interesting bat colonies.
- In Episode 4, the explorers are following the routes of prehistoric people, who used to inhabit the Haramiyska cave, and afterwards they will look around for down bears. They are hoping to meet one of them in the forest.
- The explorers will take a look around the ancient sanctuary of Belintash and will try to sold its mysteries. Afterwards, they will head towards the Eastern Rhodopes, near the small village of Bivolyane. There they will encounter some amphibians and they pay a visit to the Harman Kaya area and the sanctuary there.
- For their last adventure, the explorers are at Studen kladenets dam. There they will see the natural sight of Sheytan dere before kayaking down the Arda river and reaching Madzharovo.