Feature films

An old rich aunt offers to her nephew – a 35-year-old orphaned bachelor, to make a bet. If he - Chakalov, succeeds to captivate the hearts of 14 women and the old lady sees with her own eyes these 14 kisses, she will leave to him her enormous legacy. Chakalov is forced to accept the old lady’s offer and to play the role of a seducer. But by nature, he is not that kind of person and this puts him in countless funny and awkward situations ending up in absurd outcomes. Chakalov’s endless love for books and their world, rather than for easy living leads him through the maze of the craziness of surrounding life.

Bulgaria, the night of October 18, 1922. A rampageous young man – an American, is forced to get off the Orient Express at a small station. The chief of the railway station and his daughter are quite unwilling to put up the stranger. Gradually, the American wins their trust. When the father understands that his daughter has decided to go away to Paris with the American, he makes a potion to sedate him and gets him on a train on the sly. In the morning all that has left from the guest is a piece of paper, which reads “Ernest Hemingway”.

Wallachia, 1835. Two riders, the deputy Costandin and his son, are searching for a runaway gypsy slave, suspected of having an affair with his master’s wife. On the road they encounter people of different nationalities and religions, each with prejudices against the others, passed down from generation to generation. When the slave is found, the adventure begins…

A funny and woeful story, resembling an old Jewish anecdote, aiming to wrap a comical framework around the dark sides of life. At the time the poorest neighborhood of Plovdiv was a unique European recess – the realm of perfect ethnic harmony, reigning among Bulgarians, Armenians, Turks, Jews, gypsies and Greeks. A priest, a rabbi and a hodjah and an antichrist, nicknamed The Boozer, are smitten with the same full-bosomed Turkish woman. Along with their rivalry, squabbles and good fellowship the first play-like love between their offsprings blossoms – between a Jewish boy and an Armenian girl. The political winds of the era blow away the idyll and separate the 12-years-old lovers. Years later the Jew, now a professor, and the Armenian woman – a piano teacher – reunited.

The servants of Lovewit – a typical hermit of science whose only interests lie in alchemy – are left to dispose of his household – that is the steward Salt, the footman Face and the cleaning woman Doll. They are scheming how to make use of the house so that they get wealthy. Salt puts forward the striking idea to take up alchemy. Comedy of adventure, satirizing the everlasting human pursuit of health, happiness and wealth in magic ways without making any efforts.

Francois, a Frenchman and sociologist, arrives in the Bulgarian village of Kesten on the borderline with Turkey and Greece, to study ethnic conflicts. In Kesten, Vladimir represents all the authorities: the headmaster, postmaster, pub-runner, running everything still moving and breathing in a radius of 100 kilometers. Vladimir is also the mayor of the village. Fallen sway to strange ideas, in which he involves his wife Maria, Vladimir, in his capacity of the Mayor, becomes his own wife’s lover, and in his capacity of the Headmaster he play-acts scenes of jealousy and shadows her, and in his capacity of the Postmaster makes court to her awkwardly and uneasily. Maria is at a loss what to do. She goes into witchcraft to only bring him to his senses… All for nothing. Finally, she starts living with the three of them: the Headmaster, the Postmaster and the Mayor… Until Francois’ arrival! Well, then...

A foggy night in Sofia. Anna is a typical modern girl, who knows on which side her bread is buttered and copes very well with men. Tonight though, she faces a challenge: a stranger, who is different. He is capable of changing her life for good.

While hitchhiking to the funeral of his art school friend, Kamen meets Ave, a 17-year-old runaway, who is looking for her troubled brother. With each ride they hitch, she invents new identities for them and gets Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with her.

This is a story of the life of a fisherman. It’s a life that most Bulgarians live. A life full of bartering, but with whom and why? This film reveals all.

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.

This is a film about what unites all people across the world regardless of their colour, age or religion. A picture about love and beauty.

Commissioner Aslan is the highest-ranking officer of Turkish extraction in German police. He has been sent to Kreuzberg to stop the drug war between the Turkish gang of Murat and the skinheads led by Eichler. In the neighbourhood somebody is meticulously killing Turkish children. The killer is not only taking young lives but is marking them with the deadly wax masks of racial hatred. is an appeal against xenophobia, which is spreading around the world.

Grandpa Georgi lives alone with his cat, Malina, in the countryside. He was a librarian, for more than 50 years, when his sight starts to fade and he cannot read anymore. At Christmas time, he decides that there is no point of living. But the cat disagrees…

Itso drives an ambulance that collects dead bodies in Sofia. He falls in love with Katya, but she is a gangster’s mistress. Itso kills his rival and in doing so he settles his childhood score with evil. Unexpectedly he realizes that Katya is also possessed by evil and true love is elsewhere.

The film tells the story of Cosmos, a thief of unknown background, who bursts into a small border town, disrupting the life of the townsfolk. A series of strange events makes the people believe that he is a gifted healer. In this movie Reha Erdem carries an indepth study of the nature of human relations, the effect produced by the individual on the group and vice versa.

Two best friends get involved in the turfwars of two criminal groups in postcommunist Bulgaria. Unaware of each other’s involvement, they are manipulated to undertake seemingly harmless tasks, confronting each other at the end. Clutching like crayfish at the bait of everyday life, they determine their own fates.

During a crazy day young Ina loses her work, her boy friend and all chances to help the person she loves most dearly in her life – her grandfather. May be the end of everything has come... But the same crazy day, she learns something very important: Each end is a new beginning!

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.

After a heist at a jewelry store, the paths of two men, a young fugitive and a driver, interwine. They get along on a short journey at the end of which their fates are decided.

A story based on actual events. Sam is a Frenchman, accused of smuggling fake money from Bulgaria to France. In order to avoid prison, he becomes an informant for the French police. That’s how he is incorporated into a Bulgarian channel for human trafficking . He gradually falls in love with Elka, an under aged gypsy prostitute. Pressed by the circumstances Sam nearly turns into an ruthless pimp, but the feelings he has for the girl help him to preserve the one thing he still hasn’t lost: his dignity.

A young Bulgarian woman flees her dream life in America to return home to her passionate, but self-destructive friend Val. But when her fiancé, Scott, shows up unexpectedly, she has to choose between a secure future and a doomed love.

The film consists of three stories, wich at first glance appear independent, and follows three situations developing simultaneously within a few days. Narrated parallelly, they gradually reveal the relationships between the members of one family, but also shows the dеmolished human communication between the characters – spouses, brothers, parents, children. The threads of the separate events are interweaved so at the end they are joined into a common, interconnected and interdependent existence, branded by the lack of value and higher meaning. The sloth and inertia, as well as the repressed impulses and mental anguish are concrete and tangible as the wind, but the consequences are irreversible – a moment which has no space for “later“. There are no innocent, no one is guilty and still each one of the characters is stinged by the thought that he or she could have lived their days in a different way…

It is a harsh, ironical, paradoxical, warmblooded and… tender story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is raw. Their concepts of man’s dignity, friendship and duty are wrong and primitive. Tracking the small treacheries and the “innocent” murders the characters commit, the film helps us to understand and forgive them with warmth and compassion. For little by little, we realize that maybe this absurd, vain life is ours.

is a musical incorporating opera and silent movies elements.

A sad and funny story about the love of a boy (Slavi) and a girl (Nelly), who at the age of six promised to marry each other. A story made of love, friendships, betrayals, partings, fleeing abroad to Austria, roamings around the world and homecoming.

Margarita leaves famous reporter Marco Matanich and joins her brother going for windsurfing with his friends from different Balkan countries. They speak their own languages, but understand each other pretty well. Marco arrives on their island “only” for the surfboard she stole from him. Meanwhile a dead calm succeeds. Lacking their mania, the men start fighting over the usual nationalistic issues. Now they speak only English, to “better understand each other”. Marco, to prove his skills to Margarita shoots them in a manipulative reportage “Who’s lying in the Balkans”. Quoted by a leading newspaper it provokes a conflict between the Balkan countries. The friends build “national borders” between their tents while Margarita disappears in the open sea. Will the men find her and will everyone find peace? It depends on one’s readiness to invest love and on the wind one deserves to get.

Adelicate analysis of the movements of human spirit and love between a man and a woman, which has the power to reveal the beauty of the soul from the cradle to the grave. The love theme is developed through the subtle interaction of a number of independent cameos and a variety of characters with almost nothing in common: glimpses of life connected only by the irony of an elderly man, who is in love with a young woman.

A small frontier post. A soldier abiding by the rules of the system, gradually turns into a murderer.

Growing old is an art in itself. How difficult it is to cast off the habits and perceptions of a lifetime to keep up with the demands of a new age. Is everything permitted in the New Age? Can every threshold be crossed? Do the human and ethical values of the individual mean anything? The full moon is as big as an orange. Clouds fleet across its face. People disappear into the distance, suffering and wandering, looking for themselves and the truth about their lives.

In a world where gravity is weak and skinny people (just under 120 kg.) fly into the sky, Constantine has never left the apartment he shares with his father Atanas. But one day a beautifully plump stewardess, who moves in the same building, will change Constantine’s life forever.

Two close friends spend the night together in an empty apartment. They are waiting for the new lover of one of them. She has decided to leave her husband and stay with him. They are also waiting for a truck-load of cans of cheese – a part of some shady business affair. Along with their conversations, childhood memories and fights we find out that the two men are waiting for something else. Love and death, the meaning of life and the absurdity of the daily grind are mixed together.