Documentary films

  • This is a film about the first armed resistance against the communist dictatorship after World War II in Eastern Europe. To this day this period of Bulgarian history has been taught neither at the Bulgarian schools, nor by the university history courses…
  • A film about actor Andrey Batashov. It tells the story of a talented, and lonely individual in merciless and cruel times; of an aristocrat by birth and a nobleman by heart, of human talent and self-destruction. A film about the choice to be alone onstage, rendering this loneliness brilliant.
  • Life in a free world and hell in the heart. This is the lifestory of Stefane Groueff – a Bulgarian writer with American citizenship, who spent 26 years working for the French Paris Match magazine. Stefane Groueff stays in Switzerland – beyond the Iron Curtain – in 1944 and makes an amazing career. He meets the celebrities of the 20th c., making friends with many of them. But during his entire life outside his homeland he feels enormous bitterness and guilt because of his relatives, who have stayed in Bulgaria. An emotional film featuring the incredible appeal of Stefane Groueff and a lot of unique footages from French, Swiss, American and Bulgarian archives of the period.
  • There is no other place across the world, boasting such diversity of languages, traditions and cultures. Here, the deep-rooted cult of the ancestors is traditional. Ghosts are everywhere to be found and sorcerers are omnipotent.
  • A film about the fates of several children, living in a home. About the encounters with their parents. A film about homes lost. A film about the home found.
  • Eight and a half years in Libyan prison cells. 3,097 days locked in a trap set by a dictator. Medieval inquisition. Three times sentenced to death. Seven innocent Bulgarian medics. A documentary in which Muammar Gaddafi’s hostages narrate their story.
  • The film tells about the influence of European culture on Bulgaria in the easy 20 c. This is a story full of humor, lot of information and philosophy of the new century. Let us turn back with a smile and see how it has happened hundred years ago in Bulgaria.
  • A film about Alexandar Vutimski – one of the most confessional and tragic Bulgarian poets, who passed away at the age of 24. He, who foreboded his forthcoming end, and captured with the perspicacity of a clairvoyant the spirit of the totalitarian times that came to reign only a year after his death, aristocratic to the marrow of his bones, he flashed thunder-like but is never to be forgotten.
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