Documentary films
- On the night of 20/21 August 1968, the Combined Forces of the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia to reassert the Kremlin’s control over the country. On 29 October 1968, three sophomores from the University of Sofia were arrested: Edward Genov, Alexander Dimitrov and Valentin Radev. Their ‘crime’ was in that they would not go on living a lie because the political repression has silenced dissent. The boys confronted the communist repressive machine for dealing with political gadflies. But then again, did 1968 actually happen in Bulgaria?
- A film-portrait of a journey to a man who in times of universal strive for refuge had made the choice to be left alone. A film about the romantic side of his poems and his longing for human communications through the destiny he himself decided to have.
- The children of two families – one Christian, one Muslim, have to travel in difficult conditions many kilometers every day to reach the last remaining open school in a frontier area located between Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. What gives hope to these people in their life in an abandoned region with a complicated historical background?
- A film about the little town of Topolovgrad and the town’s community center.
- Dr. Constantine Stoilov - being one of the three most influential Bulgarians of all times, he has been depicted by a number of outstanding writers. Despite having a cold appearance, he is an extremely emotional person. As a politician he is a sophisticated European although in his innermost he is a meek religious man.
- This is a documentary film built on the novelette-like principle. A historian, a political scientist and an artist start on a tour round the Balkan countries aiming to put an end to an old dispute – what should an all-Balkan textbook of history be like, since that is one of the ways to find a common ground for the Balkan peoples. Which of the events should be included in this general history book, which are to be highlighted and which should be passed over in silence? Is it possible for a history textbook of that kind to carry out the mission it’s been assigned to – reconcile the irreconcilable? Is it really possible for such a textbook to be written?
- A film about Marcel Cellier who discovered for the world „Le Mystѓre des Voix Bulgares“, and their true cinematic story. For more than 50 years the swiss musicologist and researcher Marcel Cellier has been travelling beyond the Iron Curtain, collecting the best of the authentic folklore music of Eastern Europe. Following his steps, the film “travels“ around Romania and Bulgaria of today, revealing the secrets of the legendary Bulgarian choir “Le Mystѓre des Voix Bulgares“, winner of the most prestigious Grammy music award, as well as of the famous Romanian musician Gheorghe Zamfir.
