Documentary films

  • The documentary tells both the story of the Proshek brothers and delves deep into the atmosphere of the early 20th century, a time, when Bulgaria used to be an attractive place for career development and investing. This is the story of hard-working and enterprising people, no matter where they come from, a story about the long life relations between West and East Europe. This is also a story about memory, about its fickleness and inconsistency; about the necessity to remember for there is no future without remembering the past. This is a story about unkind fate and the efforts to confront it staying true to yourself.
  • The film is not an attempt to just follow the storyline of Emilian Stanev’s life; it’s rather a spiritual biography of the writer; a glimpse into the demons raging in his soul; reflections on Bulgaria’s ill-starred history; contemplation over the never-ending Bulgarian fallacies, illusions and contradictions.
  • Wiener waltzes and ridiculous historical analyses… The war usually harms the people’s life, but in the family of Ivan Chuchurigin the WWI is a recollection of something marvelous. His son and the village historian tell us about the incredible love story of Ivan. Is it true or is it a beautiful fiction?
  • Step by step archaeologists reveal the secrets of Thracian tombs – impressive burial chambers that have preserved our forefathers’ idea of the world of gods and the immortality of the human soul. The creative spirit of the artist and his striving for perfection, built into the stone, have survived over the ages.
  • A French man, Abel Rambert sees a drawing by Pascin for the first time in 1948 and falls in love with his art. This drawing predestines the future of this man. He becomes not only a collector and a gallery owner but also the best expert in Pascin’s art in the world.
  • The end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century A.D. The literature created in the major cultural centre of Veliki Preslav, in the Old Bulgarian Language, helps spread the cultural achievements of Christianity. By means of visual materials from Veliki Preslav, Constantinople and the Madrid Library; the correspondence between Patriarch Nicholas I the Mystic and Tsar Simeon; Constantine of Preslav, John the Exarch and other men of letters’ written works, this film reminds of the actual contribution of Bulgarians to the world cultural process.
  • Man to nature is what cancer is to man. Is man compatible with хature? We should not be trying to restore the old natural balance. We should be trying to create a new harmony between the urban world of man and the Great Wild World. If we want to be a race with a past we have to look into the future. God has not granted us the power to rule the elements. We, therefore, have to achieve harmony with them.
  • This is a film about the culture, religion and the ancient traditions of the Kazulbashka muslim community in Bulgaria in which woman is the equal to man. It is an entertaining story of the common pagan root of the religions, tolerance and eternal human values.
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