Documentary films

  • The story of a youth who left his home in the Tryavna part of the Balkan Mountains to work at building sites in Turkey and Persia, of his spectacular career in Hollywood and his mysterious disappearance. Based on film archives from the Tryavna Museum, letters of emigrant workers from all over the world, as well as on American, Turkish and Persian newsreels.
  • The investigation and the court proceedings of the trial against Levski and his followers, which took place in late 1972 and early 1973 in Sofia, seen in a new light. Answers to some questions of legal, historical, political and psychological nature are searched in the film.
  • A portrayal of three brothers from a complicated background and of their granny. She is the one, who tells the story of their unhappy childhood. They have made very different life choices and share only one thing, the surname of their mother, Lilievs. The eldest Alexander is striving to become a popular hairdresser. The second brother, Bozhidar renounced the world and retired to a cloister, admitting though that he had seen it hard to keep the vows. The youngest Jimmy, a former bar tender and a ladies’ man, leaves for Belgium set to marry his girlfriend.
  • Alain and Marie are French followers of the religious teaching founded by the Bylgarian spiritual teacher Petar Dunov. In 1990 they cross semi-legally several borders and come to Bulgaria. Their daughter Noenne is born. The French family starts living in the most primitive conditions, trying to follow the principles of the teaching, At first the local peasants treat them with sympathy, but the clash of the different values is unavoidable.
  • Petko Bocharov is a well-known figure in our public and cultural life. Sharp mind and incredible memory. Active professional life. To this day, even in his 94, he is being invited as an interesting conversationalist in popular television shows, telling the intriguing story of his past of a secret services collaborator. It is a unique opportunity through the autobiographical memories of Petko Bocharov to make an insightful, thorough and at the same time human, powerful film about the historical development of our country over the last century
  • is a group, consisting of a female vocal trio and instrumental sextet. Marked by the communist past of Bulgaria and by the agony of the transitional period, a female vocal trio and their musicians are making their best to have a normal life in a country, which is a far cry from normality. Before the friendly, different and sensitive eyes of Andre Chandelle, a Belgian director living in Sofia for a decade now, they shell the grains of memories, hopes and dreams of a generation, which refuses to be lost.
  • The documentary tells the forgotten story of one of the most dangerous enemies of communist Bulgaria, the US funded Radio Free Europe. presents different stories: of personal recollections of RFE journalists and listeners, of Bulgarian State Security operatives, agents and US security directors. The film also features for the first time, archives of the official Bulgarian and US propaganda as well as Bulgarian State Security internal archives. The result is a new and unexpected picture of a volatile Bulgaria before the fall of Communism in 1989.
  • The film presents the everyday life of the inhabitants of the Stolipinovo neighborhood in Plovdiv.
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