Feature films

Bozhana – in her young days a famous opera singer – has transformed her cottage at the seaside into a boarding house for dogs. Her whims and extravagances constantly drive her old friend Philip, a retired doctor, the dogs and occasional visitors to distraction. One of the visitors is Victor who came with some friends to watch the eclipse. He is 20 years old, has nowhere to live and no future. Bozhana falls in love with him and takes every step to seduce him. Philip feels alone and jealous. The situation leads to a series of conflicts, mixing theatricality and cruelty. A tramp – earning his living by imitating Charlie Chaplin – is also brought into the game. Finally Victor finds solace in alcohol and drugs with his peers and Philip decides to leave. But is it easy to break away so suddenly from people whom you love and hate at the same time?

Servantes’ genius for predicting historical events is really amazing. 400 years prior to the events of today, he could forebode and ridicule characters openly devoted to communist ideology. Riding his scraggy horse round the world, this mock-knight tries to convince people that what they see is not windmills, grinding gray to make flour, but hostile giants. The shepherd Sancho Panza is ready to pretend he believes his master because his loyalty will be rewarded with real power. A crazy revolutionary of a liar and a cook, wishing to rule the country – these two characters are familiar to us from our deplorable historical experience.

Vlatche, a 15-year-old teenager, steals the SIM card of his grandfather, who has just passed away and was buried with his mobile phone. With this SIM card Vlatche writes text messages on behalf of his grandfather, in order to collect money for a concert of his rock band. The very moment his deception is uncovered and the card is already taken away, the same ringtone is heard again. Where does it come from?

Two brothers, who have lost contact, are suddenly brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating. While Georgi, who has recently joined a neo-nazi group, participates in the violence, Itso witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Georgi, now being asked to participate in larger actions, starts questioning his involvement in the movement and Itso wonders if the beautiful Turkish girl he has saved could be his ticket out of his sad life in Sofia. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to find what they really expect their lives to be.

Three friends, Muro, Shpera and Yuri are unemployed and can hardly make ends meet. They have complicated and hysterical relationships with the people closest to them. They seem to have emigrated from their families and their country. Provoked by a mysterious telephone call, they set out on a journey, filled with the hope to change their lives. In places the film is amusing and funny, in places sad, as it investigates the spiritual emigration of young people in Bulgaria.

Emilia’s friends are portrayed in a number of separate but interrelated cameos. On an individual level each cameo reveals the life of a single person. Viewed as a whole they portray the common human characteristics of a group of friends and the different ways in which they are coming to terms with the world in which they live.