Documentary films

Who can prove that the world and even the universe in which we live is not just an enormous liquor still which is kept alight from time to time by someone throwing more wood under the fire.

The documentary is the fourth part, the finale of the series: Striving for Novelty, How Europe Came to Bulgaria, The French Woman of the Bulgarian NCO, showing the everyday life and mentality of the common Bulgarians in the period 1850–1950. On May 1st, 1945 everything seems clear to Bulgaria: the WWII is coming to an end, people cherish a hope for peace and prosperity. Or at least that is what is suggested by the smiles on the faces of the officials on the photo, on which the story is based. Yet this country’s history took a different turn. The documentary attempts at telling as to why history has failed to follow the formal logic of the photo.

The Bulgarian town of Varshets is a town without women. The men look after the children, cook, do the washing and… wait for money from their wives, who work abroad. Many of the women work as "badante“ in Italy, taking care of sick or elderly. The social structure of Varshetz is changing and these transformations, dramatic or funny, are witnessed everywhere: in the pubs, in the families, within the brass band and at the bus station, when the women come back home once a year for a holiday.

This film is dedicated to the life of the artist Boris Georgiev, a student of Rurich, who lived and worked in India. At the cost of deprivation and suffering he justified his mission to be a mediator between God and men. His art radiates an extraordinary spiritual beauty which opens the doors of universal love.

The film tells about one of the ethnic cleansings in the Balkan peninsula, which took place in the latest 80-ies in Bulgaria. The consequences of it are lasting till now. The film tells the stories of three women and their devided families. Each of them experienced in her own way this tragedy. This is a story about the people who were robbrd in their identity, but who, nevertheless, are full of inexhaustible passion for survival.

This film tells of the environmental destruction of the valley between Varna and Devnya. The heavy metals in the soil are a time bomb. The film poses the question who allowed the destruction of the local crabs in favour of Sodi-Devnya chemical plants.

is a historical documentary about General Skobelev and the heroic age of Bulgaria’s Liberation. The story is told by famous 19-century scholars: military historians, writers and public figures with writer Boris Vasilev; Aleksei Leonov, astronaut and president of the International Skobelev Committee; Prof. Andrey Pantev; Prof. Bozhidar Dimitrov among others. Unique footage from the early 20th c. is used in the film as well as photos from the Bulgarian and Russian national archives.

A movie about the poverty and loneliness of the people in a village – bloodstained by political violence in 1923, and nowadays, fallen victim to politicians and cheats.