Feature films

The spring of 1945. The war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized the power. The new rulers do justice according to their personal interests. This is the beginning of the era of Communism in Bulgaria – spiritual poverty, expropriation, destroying of the intelligentsia. In this chaos the main character, an actress fallen on hard times, wants to preserve her social status by any means. She claims to be a Communist activist and, in order to gain access to the theatre even shows a photo with Georgi Dimitrov’s dog. However, in order to survive, she has to resort to betrayal…

In the late 1970s, cameraman Anton Krastev and his wife Diana are separated by the Iron Curtain: she has fled with their son Antoan to Western Berlin, leaving Anton behind in Bulgaria. Anton adores his job. He works with the best film director, who is a high-ranking Communist. The State Security Services are keeping a zealous eye on Anton, putting an end to Anton’s relation with his wife. Torn apart, Anton and Diana go from love to alienation to hatred. Anton’s influential friends are toppled and he loses everything that he’s ever loved: his work, his wife and his son. Thirty years later, Anton shoots the story of his own life. But those who now direct the movie are the same people, who have once persecuted him.

This is a tragic comedy about the absurdity of one day in Elena’s life – whose job is working on the percussion press WAGNER of 1933 – about quite a common day in her life, in which her dream comes true. She gets an apartment on an installment plan. In this inclement day of November, she goes to have a look at her future property. Her happiness brings a soporific languor to her and she soon falls asleep in the empty flat. She wakes up late in the night feeling very hungry. So her trip up and down the floors of the block begins in search of a piece of bread. This is a story about the imaginary aims and ideals that will never come true.

Anatoly lives with his mother near a coalmine. The miners come to eat in her pub at midday. Sometimes, when another drunk admirer starts kicking up a row outside the window, he protectively places himself in front of his mother. He's unsure what he wants to do with his life, spends hours daydreaming on his bed or cycling through the fields. When he finds himself being swindled again by brisk Maragita at the market, all he can do is gaze at her from afar. But everything has its time, and at some point Anatoly takes the initiative. A quiet and touching tale of coming of age.

A film about the unknown life of the distinguished Bulgarian writer Yordan Yovkov in his capacity of a soldier, correspondent, friend, missionary and chronicler of the agony, sufferings and yearning of the ordinary men in wartime. Small pieces of melodramatic stories at the war fronts, which the writer actually experienced and wrote about…

Republic of Macedonia after the disintegration of communist Yugoslavia. A woman has decided to speak out after forty years of keeping silence. The revealing of secrets, which have been kept very carefully for such a long time, stirs commotion among the powers that be. And they decide to take action. Warming up Yesterday’s Lunch is a film about events in which the line between good and evil has been completely blurred. The characters that refuse to accept this fact are destined to pay a high price.