Documentary films

The executive power in Bulgaria personified by the prime-ministers from the Liberation to modern times. The film discusses the problem of power and the way it is used in compliance with the laws of parliamentary democracy.

Two death sentences and two informer cards. The cynicism of the totalitarian system in action today.

“The film tells the story of a journey and its narration is structured by people on the move, men, women and children, whose travel companion I was for a little while. In this film, I reflect upon the trajectories of their lives, joys and sorrows, sadness and solitude, exuberance and festivities.“ Stefan Ivanov

The film follows a coach load of Bulgarians traveling to Berlin from Sofia. The passengers tell of the reasons why they are traveling, what expectations they have from the meeting with Europe. The coach seems to be a microcosm of Bulgaria.

The film is centered on the life of fourteen-year-old blind girl. She has managed to cast out the darkness from her life even though other people are convinced that she is doomed to live in gloom. For her life is a miracle in which one needs to feel the light and to find one’s way in the chaos.

This is a film about the past and present of Lozinka Koinova Arnaudova, one of the most experienced, knowledgeable and responsible art restorers in Bulgaria. She recounts her experience of the quiet dramas of her profession. It is a film of the cultural history of the nation and on the fate of a number of valuable works of art.

This is the story of a journey by land and by sea. In the early 1940s, thousands of Jewish children from Central Europe, fleeting from the ghost of the war, crossed the territory of Hitler’s ally – Bulgaria and reached the Promised Land, Palestine. Many people contributed to this unique voyage: diplomats, politicians, and even adventurers.

A film about poet Kiril Hristov, about the events, excitements, figures and the atmosphere in the late 19th and the early 20th cc. as well as about the spiritual deadlock we have found ourselves in. Facts and events, pivotal to the history of the nation have been obliterated, erased, distorted or have reached the next generations misrepresented. Subsidiary or creatively mediocre figures have replaced the genuine spiritual leaders of the nation. Consequently, one of the best Bulgarian poets has remained almost unknown.

A film-anthology of reminiscences, useful advice, interpretations and anticipations such as they were recorded by the Tryavna wood-carvers and icon-painters in the church chronicles, their guidebooks and family bibles. The iconostases created by these men in different parts of Bulgaria contain the whole Christian philosophy and form the moral values of the Bulgarians of the age.