Documentary films

  • A charmer as handsome as Apollo, women’s favourite, undisciplined, a bruiser, a fascist: Who was he actually? Who was Dimirtar Spisarevski? The film is a panopticon of a kind of different segments of our society today, which in a funny and absurd and at times, in a dramatic and a fanatical way asserts their right to have their own opinion and interpretation of the character and the right to identification with him.
  • In 2004, archaeologist Georgi Kitov working on excavations in the Valley of Kings opens up a tomb that has not been robbed. The richness of the artefacts is indicative of a royal burial and, step by step, scientists identify it as the burial of Seuthes III. The team comes across another unexpected discovery – a bronze head, a masterpiece of antiquity, buried in front of the tomb’s entrance. With thеse finds and the series of questions and guesswork they provoke as a starting point, the film gradually reveals the psychological portrait of a Thracian king and his role in a complicated age.
  • The film is devoted to the 50th anniversary of the saving of the Bulgarian Jews from Nazi genocide. The author looks in on the lives of three of his contemporaries: Simon Varsano – a 38-year-old photographer; Abraham Behar – a 79-year-old rabbi; Yossif (Joseph) Sarchadjiev – a 49-year-old actor. The structure resembles three shorts united by the leitmotif of the preservation of human dignity in spite of life’s vicissitudes.
  • The film relates the life and art of Panaiot Todorov (1883-1943), known for his poetic pseudonym Sirak Skitnik. Painter and critic at the same time, he is one of the most prominent personalities in Bulgarian artistic life of the period between the two World Wars. He influences different fields – the fine arts, architecture, theatre, cover design, radio programs… Nowadays he comes to be almost completely unknown to the public at large in his own country. His brilliant pen though is still topical and his judgments  prove to be trustworthy.
  • Despite her outstanding talent, Slavka Deneva was forsaken, pressed and ignored by the totalitarian institutions. Her first exhibition took place a decade after her death, in 1994. Today her works occupy their well-deserved place among the eminent representatives of modern Bulgarian painting. She is the biggest individual donator in the whole history of Communist Bulgaria.
  • A bomb blast during a tussle of soccer fans in downtown Sofia claims an innocent life. An investigation is launched. The interrogations confront the detective with a gang of violators, who commit acts of vandalism at football stadiums. Dimo Kareto is one of them, a teenaged football buff, who starting with playing football in his neighbourhood as thousands of kids do, ends up in court.
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