Documentary films
- This is a story about two guys, Martin and Georgi. In 1993 they lived in an orphanage. Georgi had IDs, so he could be adopted, while Martin didn’t have any. Today Georgi has a family in Sweden and studies at a college, while Martin looks after cows in a farmer’s cowsheds. The film tells their story and the stories of others like them. Since 1993 many things have improved in the orphanages in Bulgaria. But in 2008 there still were 2,391 abandoned children here!
- A story of a group of bear keepers and their bears concentrating on the strange and cruel link between man and animal whose fate is to spend their lives on the two ends of a chain.
- A documentary about two different choices of life style. Two different girls with the same powerful pain and hope for themselves on the way to find a meaning of the life they are living.
- Maybe nowhere in the world the difference between reality and fiction is felt that strongly as in the Spanish town of Tabernas. More than 600 spaghetti westerns were filmed there. The film characters leave their marks not only on the world of the motion pictures, but also on the life of several generations of residents of the city. The locals live in a surreal context, caught in a kind of uncertainty between fiction and reality. Life in the city is passing like an endless film.
- In the light of the preserved documents about writer Yana Yazova reveals her singular creative and human life story. The work presents her voluntary creative seclusion as a Bulgarian version of resistance to spiritual repression and conformism. A documentary essay on vengeance of memory upon the myths, lies and silence…
- A documentary about the life of Taurian ethnic Bulgarian, writer Misho Hadzhiyski (1916–44), who lead some 2,000 ethnic Bulgarians from Ukraine to Bulgaria in the WWII. He commuted suicide not to fall in the enemy’s hands. A story about the life of the ethnic Bulgarians, who have found themselves far from their homeland. A documentary about talent… About dignity… About the choice to be a man and the price one pays for one’s choice…
- A film that was initiated in 1992 and was finished in 2003. Good stuff, that has mellowed 11 years. It is about a man, who had two death sentences. He has lived in Sweden, in France. He doesn’t want to come back to Bulgaria, because… A film about human nature… About our plight…
- A film about orphaned gifted children and adolescents. It shows the hardships encountered in finding out and supporting gifted children. It depicts the self-devoted activities of great Bulgarian opera singer Raina Kabaivanska, as well as her extreme concern in raising and preserving talents.
