Feature films

In a small Bulgarian town, in the unfinished house, Maria is waiting for her husband. This is the day he returns home after several months of hard work abroad. But he is late. Very late. May be too late...

A story featuring a colorful mosaic of characters, light humor and kindness but also painful revelations. It offers a refreshing view of childhood where time and space have different dimensions, where the long summer passes by in a flash and a moment might seem as long and as rich as an entire season and where the imaginary and real worlds are interwoven in a rich and complex unity.

Pavel is an amiable loser, teaching at a film institute. He sells out his family apartment and accommodates his mother in a nursing house for elderly people to start filming his first picture. The bank, however, he deposits his money in, goes bankrupt and he can’t afford to pay back the mob the loan taken to buy negative film stock. As for his family, the relations have for a long time turned into a series of stupid and ridiculous misunderstandings. His wife cuckolds him, all his attempts to take up with his son fail. The friendship with a neighbor boy ends in a classic knock-out. A dubious partnership with an old colleague from the movie guild ends in a total fiasco before the Mafia. The only place he feels comfortable is the students’ film hall where old pictures are screened. He often fancies himself a film character. Pavel starts behaving as such and gradually loses any sense of reality.

Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979. While the Yugoslav president and dictator Tito is in Cuba settling international matters, a mysterious Phantom occupies the attention and hearts of the capital city, Belgrade. He exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers, using a stolen white Porsche car down the city streets every night.

Three young men find their destinies closely interwoven with that of the young Roma girl, Magdalena. Lilyanin is a Bulgarian who from being an advocate of ethnic unity becomes a prosecutor of the Romany people. Halibryamov speaks the languages of the animals but cannot communicate with people. Kanyo is a rich Roma who wants to reject his origins but dares not turn his back on the destiny of his people. Only magic can unravel the tangled web.

A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of unsuspecting intellectuals to spy on each other. After the fall of Communism he uses his secret archive to wreak havoc on the government. The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers. This is a story without innocents. Secret policing reveals its dark nature not only in its nauseating cruelties, but also most suggestively, in its deviant pleasures.

He is 50. Something has happened to him that night. Two beautiful women and a reporter talk about that. Still, every one of them has a different story to tell.

This story begins with a prayer. And it ends with a prayer. The first one is a prayer to God. The second – to the Devil. Inbetween the two prayers is Pavel – a talented, chaotic and irresponsible musician and composer. Pavel is not religious but there are times in a man’s life when one can call only upon the mercy of God. And he prays to God. Everything is wonderful until the day he realizes he has lost the girl he loves. In order to win her love back, Pavel is ready to do anything – even pray to the Devil. When one prays to God, one relies on His mercy. When one prays to the Devil, this is a deal. You can ask for whatever you want and you have to offer something in exchange. And there’s only one pawn in the Devil’s game…