Documentary films

The film recounts how the totalitarian regime flirted with the intelligentsia from the end of the 1960’s to the middle of the 1980’s. Georgi Markov was a direct witness and participant in these relationships and provided his viewpoint from afar.

London 1978: Bulgarian writer and dissident, Georgi Markov is poisoned to death. The assassination plot reads like a James Bond film: an umbrella is supposed to be the murder weapon. For years the British and Russian secret services blame each other. Still one of the biggest murder cases in history remains unexplained. 35 years later the director sets out to solve the mystery. Through his lengthy enquiries he succeeds in getting the prime suspect, the Bulgarian agent Francesco “Piccadilly” Guillino to appear in front of the camera. A gripping documentary crime thriller that deals with the history of the Cold War and reveals the current intrigues within our secret services.

Theodora Zakharieva committed herself to a social cause and broke through the health system, winning a case against the Healthcare Ministry for compensations for retermitted treatment. She went on a hunger strike and staged protest rallies at the Ministry of Healthcare and the Council of Ministers, due to the lack of medication for oncology patients. Prior to the hunger strike, she was offered personal medication so that to give up the idea to go on a strike, but she rejected the offer, stating that her protest was for the sake of all the patients. The documentary shows the dramatic conflict through Theodora’s experiences.

Experts and amateurs from different spheres comment the prerequisites for errors and the methods of coping with them. The mystery and complexity of real life makes every effort to finally deal with errors pointless.

A young woman is searching for the truth about her great-grandfather, an Inter-allied War hero, Nicola Magdin, following in his footsteps one hundred years later. His last days on the front, in a POW camp and being reported missing after that are veiled in mystery. During her investigation, the granddaughter finds facts about a tragedy nobody wants to talk about.

This a nostalgic journey to… our present; a documentary about a small town in Bulgaria situated to the left of the main world routes, inhabited by descendants of Bulgarians expelled from Aegean Thrace and Macedonia, which nowadays lie outside Bulgaria. The film brings together history and memories, love and envy, camels and buffaloes, broken vocations and pride, shyness and self-confidence, the search for family roots and emigration, a comedy festival and personal tragedies, dolmens and tipis, destruction and creation, romance and reality, essence and insanity, oneness with Mother Earth and alienation, happiness and misery, despair and stoicism.

A film story about a man who loses his only home because he tries to legally build a dairy farm under prime-minister Videnov.

The setting: a garage in sofia turned into a hairdresser's salon. The characters: clients who confide both their sad and funny stories dated back to the transition period from socialism to capitalism, which started in 1989 and hasn't finished to date…