Feature films
- Two women – a forgetful foreign tourist and a nutty Bulgarian villager meet in a desolate village in the mountains. Despite the ensuing conflicts caused by the language barrier, cultural and personality differences, they discover true friendship. What could possibly come out of this? A miracle – for sure!
- Remarkably beautiful to watch and listen to, is a fable come vividly to life. It also exerts a formidable pull on the heartstrings throughout all its plot twists. Ruben is a young man who, along with his mother and assorted household staff, inhabits a large estate in the country sometime in the late nineteenth century. Ruben cannot see, and he is also rapaciously bloody-minded, ruling the household through fierce tantrums and intimidation. This frustrating state of affairs comes to a head upon the arrival of Marie, a pale-as-snow, slightly odd-looking older woman who is just as strong-willed as Ruben. She refuses to become embroiled in his power struggles, as she has been hired to read to him and she loves books more than anything else. It is the perfect job for Marie. Emotionally scarred by a childhood trauma, she believes herself to be grotesque, so a blind employer relieves her of self-consciousness. Ruben doesn't love anyone or anything until Marie's quiet insight into his soul provokes an affection for her stronger than anything he has ever felt before. In the bleak winter months, the two misunderstood outsiders find each other. Into their unlikely idyll swoops a doctor who insists that Ruben's eyesight can be restored through a new surgical procedure. Ruben wants the operation to be able to finally see his true iove and the world around her, but Marie panics, convinced that Ruben will discover she is ugly and her only love will be destroyed.
- The summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must obey the laws of Germany. Moni and Giogio meet Shelly (17) and their friendship is put to the test as they both fall in love with her, while the war rages. The Bulgarians are ordered to deport the Jews; trains traverse Bulgaria with 11,343 Jews from Macedonia and Thrace. What befalls the three youngsters is a reflection of the life in Bulgaria and that of the Jews in the Balkans in WWII with its anguish and atrocities leaving their mark on them.
- In a small Bulgarian Muslim village in the Rhodope Mountains a new teacher arrives – Marina, a woman trying to live and think independently. She finds herself in a world unfamiliar to her, pure and innocent, but at the same time displaying the deviations from the natural way of life, typical of the whole country. After she meets the Doctor, Mr. Know-All, Mariana, the mayor, Yosko The Internationalist, she finds that each of them resists the authorities in one’s own way. And when the non-Bulgarian names start being changed coercively, the heroine realizes she is in jail – a jail with high mountains, forests, rivers, yet a jail of tragic beauty it is.
