Feature films

The Mother, the Father and their 16-year-old son live on a hill, at the end of a village. They wash hotel sheets for a living. The water supply, however, is inconsistent and they often find themselves without a supply. A couple of drillers, a father and his daughter, arrive, in order to solve this problem. The family’s harmonious world shatters into pieces. Everyone loves and hates everyone else. The thirst for love is so great that only death can quench it.

Despite all in her life looks all right, Margita cannot find her niche in the world. She feels a huge emptiness inside her and that bothers her all the time. Anxiety keeps her grasped during the whole time she is awake. Only in her dreams she feels safe and secure. This is another paradox, because in her dreams she visits an unknown place and does things that she would normally consider wrong. The mystery of those dreams does not leave her in peace. Looking for some more about their meaning on the Internet, she finds another woman, Manca, who has night dreams about the same place and doesn’t know why. The two of them agree to meet in Sarajevo to try and discover what makes them dream about the city.

The father of three grown sons has remarried and his sons all have their own separate lives. When their father announces he is leaving for America they move into his house in an attempt to forge new links of intimacy with one another. However, with the appearance of Maria, their illusions of America are shattered. They discover that their father has not in fact emigrated but is living in a nearby village. Their next dramatic meeting questions the search for a solution to the problems of reality in illusions. This film poses philosophical questions about the existence of God, the meaning of life, or death, or truth… It offers the hope that one day along the way we will discover a common meeting place.

is a love story, dynamically told in the style of an adventure drama. The name stems from the game pin-ball and means a full blockage. The main character, Stash along with three of his friends dreams of opening their own bar with pin-ball machines, pool tables and cool music. The accidental meeting of Stash and Becky leads to a dangerous adventure, which puts the characters into a real-life tilt situation.

is a biting satire of an aimless society. It is fraught with tragic-comic situations in which laughter hides the tears but offers food for thought! is a Bulgarian train swaying between the two extremities of sarcasm and self-irony in an attempt to demythologize the main values of Bulgarian society. It is a colorful kaleidoscope of Bulgarian morals revealed in a journey of hope.

The 1950s. A widow is raising her three children but has a soft spot for her only son. The first signs of the son’s “peculiarity” appear early on: clashes with the family, a break with social role models, and friendships with individuals of the same sex. His passion for dancing leads him to Paris and his passions to bisexual relationships. The 1980s. His return to Greece is a letdown. His failure as an artist and the further deterioration of his relationship with his mother lead him to extreme decisions: streetwalking on Syngrou Avenue, working as a dancer in a transvestite club, prison, a sex-change operation. His mother has a hard time keeping up with the changes in his life. The 1990s. The happiness he dreams of does not come true. The end is tragically liberating.

Mila, a bride on the run, stumbles upon a ghost town in the middle of the desert whilst trying tho escape from her murderous husband-to-be. This surreal landscape has served once as a setting for Sergio Leone’s spaghetti westerns, so its local inhabitants still dream of being film extras. When Mila gets a job as a housekeeper for a local eccentric lady, she soon discovers that she is actually working for the true Claudia Cardinale herself. Those women become friends and find common strength to face the demons, both past and present. Soon enough their duo is supplemented with a romantic cowboy, vying for the young woman’s lonely heart, and an Indian mystic eager to lead them out of the desert. At this moment the boundary between reality and cinema begins to fade. When the villain appears, everything becomes just “like a movie“.