- Three young girls try to flee from the unemployment in their own city: they arrive in the capital city of Sofia to look for a job and a better future. The three of them try to survive, fighting a hostile reality which threatens to break their innocent and bright ideas of life, imposing on them its vicious morality. One of the girls does break and becomes the love-toy of a pimp. Prompted by her betrayal, the second one gets involved into a love triangle and attempts suicide. The third girl puts up a struggle for her closest friends’ redemption. A story of love, friendship and courage.
- Lazar Perkov is a man with everything going for him. Young and good-looking doctor, he has a beautiful wife and a child, a house and a good job. His nickname is Lucky, but something important seems to be missing from his existence. He is constantly trying to live up to the expectations of a demanding mother and a bored spouse. After he barely survives a serious accident, his life changes in unforeseen ways.
- Somewhere at the end of the world, in a small village by the sea, several men and women driven away by civilization’s cruelty and vanity have found their temporary wharf. Here they meet love, jealousy, betrayal, devotion, and mainly human goodness. Here they ascertain their own personalities and systems of values, and make their choices. The screenplay is based on Anton Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" but the story takes place here and now. The film inspires us to smile with a look of sympathy for those intellectuals around us.
- In the beginning of summer six young people escape from their failures – in their families, love, money, ambitions, meetings with those that are different. They escape from the City, taken over by those that are different. Each one of them escapes East of Hell... to the point farthest away, the sea coast, a clean and pristine beach. The clean beach brings them together and reopens the prospective of hope to them all. But is such an escape at all possible?
- A film about love and the enduring values, without which human life is doomed. In 1945 young medical doctor Rumenov, an assistant to Prof. Stanishev, who has been executed by the so-called Popular Court, is interned in Varna. There the young man meets an Armenian, Dikran, a photographer and the love of all the citizens, who helps him to rediscover what true friendship and joie de vivre are. Unfortunately, Dikran has an accident at sea and his condition is critical. Then a pretty girl turns up at the hospital insisting to marry him no matter what. Will love of a woman conquer death?
- A foreigner unintentionally stranded in Austria is trying everything to get to his original destination of Spain. A restorer who earns money on the side by painting icons has had enough of her ex-husband’s intrusions. He is searching for the right words to get her back whilst sniffing around in the private lives of mixed marriage couples as part of his job as a police officer. A gambling addict is hoping for assistance from a dubious financial institution. All of them are in search of happiness. But there is always a price for happiness.
- They love each other. They are chased after. They are deceived. Sergeant Kiro and Miss Bonny are caught in the maze of the shady world. A consignment of the erotic drug Spanish Fly arrives in Bulgaria. The gang commits itself in the game, playing it ruthlessly. Police are on their guard. Who is the first to get hold of the precious shipment? Spanish Fly – an erotic mock tragedy of our day.
- In 1914, healthy young men and disabled veterans of the two Balkan Wars live in a Serbian village on the border with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When the young men are mobilized at the start of the WWI, the veterans left behind in the village attempt to take advantage of the soldiers’ wives and sisters. The news reaches the Serbian soldiers in the trenches. To prevent a mutiny, the Serbian High Command decides to take the disabled veterans to the front line. Against this backdrop, a young war veteran, a local policeman and his wife are entangled in a love triangle, which ends like an ancient Greek tragedy.
- This is the story of an inexplicable love between a Turkish woman and a Bulgarian man during the so-called regeneration process. Ivan is a romantic young fellow, who is responsible for the official seals, which are required to issue the new identity documents after the coercive change of the names of the ethnic Turks. The schoolteacher Ayten tries to steal the seals, thinking that this way she can slow down the ethnic genocide. Their unexpected meeting brings these two characters together and makes them feel close, forcing Ivan to take a fateful decision – he must either rename Ayten, or face the consequences if he does not. Later on fate brings them together once again. Ayten’s child is killed during an action by the special forces of that period. Ivan, who’s been among the main participants in this action is paralyzed with shock. The security forces decide to erase his memory. Ayten is also put in isolation in the same hoispital.
- Meto, a crushed and heart-broken lad, finds himself in an illegal shop, where beautiful brainwashed girls, whose only ability is to say “I love you” with much passion, are given for rent. Meto chooses Heaven and finds Love. But a gift necklace and Ivo, the technician, shatter to pieces his idea of happiness.
- Europe is in war. Violence is common practice and Jews are annihilated in every possible way. Against this political and social background two charming men fight for the soul of the young and elevated actress Sulamit. One of them is the Seminarist – a manly, undeviating person with no prejudice, willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his destructive goals. The other is the Maestro – a man of manners and intellect, an experienced person, able to see through immortality and to look on at the problems of the present day only in the light of eternity. Between the two stands the frail, spraylike Sulamit with her love to offer.
- A hundred-year-old church that regularly emerges only to be submerged again by the waters of a huge dam is the venue, where Father Zlatan is trying to organize a gathering of the surviving descendants of the sunken village scattered all over the world. An arrogant politician surgeon, a vicar, who is also an operetta singer, a woman, who has become a famous international journalist, and an Italian student endure significant vicissitudes, from Rome to Kandahar via Vienna, only to discover it is fate that leads them back to their predecessors’ roots.
- A story featuring a colorful mosaic of characters, light humor and kindness but also painful revelations. It offers a refreshing view of childhood where time and space have different dimensions, where the long summer passes by in a flash and a moment might seem as long and as rich as an entire season and where the imaginary and real worlds are interwoven in a rich and complex unity.
- Pavel is an amiable loser, teaching at a film institute. He sells out his family apartment and accommodates his mother in a nursing house for elderly people to start filming his first picture. The bank, however, he deposits his money in, goes bankrupt and he can’t afford to pay back the mob the loan taken to buy negative film stock. As for his family, the relations have for a long time turned into a series of stupid and ridiculous misunderstandings. His wife cuckolds him, all his attempts to take up with his son fail. The friendship with a neighbor boy ends in a classic knock-out. A dubious partnership with an old colleague from the movie guild ends in a total fiasco before the Mafia. The only place he feels comfortable is the students’ film hall where old pictures are screened. He often fancies himself a film character. Pavel starts behaving as such and gradually loses any sense of reality.
- Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1979. While the Yugoslav president and dictator Tito is in Cuba settling international matters, a mysterious Phantom occupies the attention and hearts of the capital city, Belgrade. He exhibits spectacular driving maneuvers, using a stolen white Porsche car down the city streets every night.
- Three young men find their destinies closely interwoven with that of the young Roma girl, Magdalena. Lilyanin is a Bulgarian who from being an advocate of ethnic unity becomes a prosecutor of the Romany people. Halibryamov speaks the languages of the animals but cannot communicate with people. Kanyo is a rich Roma who wants to reject his origins but dares not turn his back on the destiny of his people. Only magic can unravel the tangled web.
- A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of unsuspecting intellectuals to spy on each other. After the fall of Communism he uses his secret archive to wreak havoc on the government. The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers. This is a story without innocents. Secret policing reveals its dark nature not only in its nauseating cruelties, but also most suggestively, in its deviant pleasures.
- He is 50. Something has happened to him that night. Two beautiful women and a reporter talk about that. Still, every one of them has a different story to tell.
- This story begins with a prayer. And it ends with a prayer. The first one is a prayer to God. The second – to the Devil. Inbetween the two prayers is Pavel – a talented, chaotic and irresponsible musician and composer. Pavel is not religious but there are times in a man’s life when one can call only upon the mercy of God. And he prays to God. Everything is wonderful until the day he realizes he has lost the girl he loves. In order to win her love back, Pavel is ready to do anything – even pray to the Devil. When one prays to God, one relies on His mercy. When one prays to the Devil, this is a deal. You can ask for whatever you want and you have to offer something in exchange. And there’s only one pawn in the Devil’s game…
- The film tells the story of the incredible metamorphosis of a petty clerk. His homeless life pushes him to play various roles, in which he gets interested and progressively entangled. The eagerly expected death, instead of rewarding his humiliating patience, suddenly stirs awake his sense of identity and his pride; while the false investigation, which has all the conclusive evidence to convict him, shows him the way to escape instead. Escape into absolute freedom, where moral principles are nothing but unnecessary attributes of a past age.
- After the death of her father the young French woman - Helene Thibault arrives in the Bulgarian village of Gradishte, led by the traces left by the mysterious founder of their family Robert Bugr, a renowned Cathar and Bogomil. All that he has left behind is a parchment filled with drawings of incomprehensible signs and letters. It is up to Helene to decipher his message for his grandchildren and the posterity.
- The first ever remake in the history of Bulgarian cinema. The desire for revenge and for love are the prime movers of the action. Kill! and Run! – those are the commandments which the wronged father (whose wife was raped) uses to bring up his daughter. However, Maria’s natural goodness foils Karaivan’s plans – the girl does not want to kill. Maybe there is only one God, and we only are calling him different names – says the young Muslim goatherd. It is from him that Maria hears I love you! instead of Kill! for the first time. Mad with jealousy, Karaivan kills the young man. Pursued by a search-party, Maria discovers the dead man and stays by his body.
- Eight thousand feet above sea level, in the sacred heart of Rila mountain, in sweltering heat, and rain, and fog, the only transport being mules, deprived of water, means and fuel, next to the sky, only to God's eternal eye, a crazy medley cast of seventy plays Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, .
- Sophie and Daneel, both in their early thirties, are a close and passionate couple living in Paris. Sophie initiates a surprise journey to Bulgaria. Daneel explicitly refuses to go, but Sophie insists and finally convinces him to leave. When they arrive, Sophie discovers that Daneel was born there... After a few hours spent on the crowded beaches, Daneel leads Sophie to an almost abandoned island lost in the Black Sea. Once there, Daneel discovers pregnancy tests in Sophie’s luggage. The heat and the strange few inhabitants soon alter their own behaviors, and the island slowly reveals hidden fears that question their love. To get through it all, they have to jump into the unknown...
- is a story about Mityo and his son Vasko. For 25 years Mityo has lived with a terrible secret: as a soldier on the Bulgarian border, he was forced to kill a couple that tried to escape to the West. Nowadays, father and son live in a small and poor village in Bulgaria, located close to the border with Turkey and Greece. Mityo is on the border again, this time smuggling immigrants to the EU. He lost everything that mattered to him – his wife, his work and the confidence of his son. To get Vasko back, Mityo has to face the past and pay for an old but still burning sin. In order to get his son back, Mityo has to seek forgiveness for his sin.
- A famous writer created a feature film script - a story of an orphan who coincidentally goes to prison. When the real man comes out of prison he damands retribution from the writer - can one steal someone else’s identity, life or mind? The man forces the writer into the underground world. The two of them have been involved in crime thriller with an unfamiliar russian girl pursued by a criminal gang. After the kidnapping of the girl the film sets off in an unexpected direction and nobody remains the same.
- Summertime... Sozopol... Seagulls... A chance encounter. A yacht at sea. A world of illusions and money. An impossible love!
- Aman and a woman meet again after many years – on the territory and in the circumstances of post-socialist Bulgaria. A university graduate and a poetess, forced to adapt herself to the new social environment, she survives in her own country as a tram driver. Having arrived for his father’s funeral after years of travels abroad, he catches a glimpse of his old flame accidentally in a tram. Could they bring back their emotional time, the time of their lives? Could they try to resurrect whatever bound them together in their youth? Bulgarian cinema’s iconic actors, Vanya Tzvetkova and Ivan Ivanov are in the parts and the situations of this other possible life. Here and now.
- During the last years of the communist regime in Bulgaria, stage actor Alexandre Petrov is banned from being on stage without any apparent motives. When he reappears, after the demise of the regime, he discovers that he had been denounced by the man, he admired most, his master and friend. He discovers about those facts at the very moment that he has to deliver a funeral speech in the honor of this man. Devastated, Petrov declares that he is giving up his public life. This is when Markov, an old acquaintance but also a former director of the Secret Services, turned into a successful businessman, offers his help. In those years 94-95, the country is whirling into wild capitalism, dreadful violence and gang wars. Markov, an admirer of Petrov’s stage talents, offers him to become the head figure of a new political party aiming at rescuing a torn apart country. Petrov is unsure but then accepts. tells this adventure where the illusions of the stage collide with political aspirations, where masked characters are confronting other masks, where friendships are staged and revenges are carried secretly. In this act, the omnipotent Markov, a typical manipulator as well as Petrov, a dreamed actor, will lose their lives as our fable tells that sooner or late, you are trapped by the very same trap you have laid. The story ends when Alexandra, Petrov’s only daughter, is offered this poisonous legacy.
- The film reveals the thoughts of a small man, living in the 1980s. He defines himself as a pathetic cad, leading a pathetic intelligent life. His job at a state-run office is to fire choir singers, who are about to retire. The clerk is not happy with this miserable existence, but whatever he does, there is always some early bird who gets his worm. This early bird is his alter ego, his inner voice, which he has always silenced. A psychological drama about the lost meaning, the lovelessness, the paranoia in a frustrated life.
- A man buys ten bottles of vodka and heads for the small coastal town of Sozopol, where he used to spend his holidays. He believes that when he drinks out the last bottle of vodka, his life will change. But strange things start happening much earlier. When Hope is gone, Miracle is the last resort.
- May 1st or Labour Day, 1986, Ljubljana. Metalworker Peter Zmazek is awarded the “Worker of the Year” title at the Udarnik (Shock-Worker) factory and in addition to that - an apartment from the social housing fund. He is so overwhelmed that he falls into a state of shock and remains in a daze; nobody can help him wake up. Peter ends up in a psychiatric institution, dreaming his dream of communist paradise for ten full years. In the meantime, the state, the political (communist) system and his family fall apart. Peter wakes up the very moment when his former wife Marica marries his best friend Jovo. When Peter shows up at the wedding party, a bitter-sweet comedy of confusions begins. The protagonist confronts a completely different world dominated by modern technologies, suspicious businessmen and newborn politicians. is a bitter comedy about family, friendship, lost ideals and about the power of an individual to beat the system.
- 21 years ago a 16-year-old Maria ran away to America with her husband’s young brother. Maria’s son, Yannis, a student and amateur photographer becomes involved in a rock group called The Wing of the Fly. When they are not rehearsing he and his friends spend their time picking up girls of all ages, fighting and talking about philosophy. However, Yannis’ carefree lifestyle is soon to come to an end when his mother returns from America. Yannis hates his mother and seeks revenge by breaking into her house and attacking his uncle. He gets through lots of girlfriends and when he finally discovers the love of his life, he strikes out. He becomes more and more alienated from his friends and finally gets resolved to return home alone to his last fatal encounter with his uncle.
- 6 year old Azad (a Kurd from Iraq) is engaged to Vian, but war separates them. 13 years later he meets her on his way to Europe and falls in love with her, without recognizing she is his fiancee. But Vian thinks he was involved in her father’s murder and does not reveal herself to Azad, obsessed with the desire for revenge. He has to fight for her heart by risking everything.
- 25 years later Alex is in a German hospital with amnesia after a severe car crash, in which his parents were killed. Bai Dan goes off to Germany, where he teaches his grandson backgammon. The ancient game restores Alex back to life. Bai Dan gets Alex out of the hospital and they hit the road, wheeling a tandem bicycle. On this journey back to Bulgaria and to the past, Alex gets his memory back, and with it, the will to live again.
- This is the story of an Azerbaijani family, the story of the relationship of two brothers, tragic in its insolvability, which ends up in the death of the protagonist. This is a story about the tragedy of a man, who never had the opportunity to understand his fellow creature for Jalil doted upon his younger brother Simurg and held him dearer than anybody else. This misunderstanding, or rather unwillingness to understand results in the destruction of a whole world, the very world, which Jalil has been building for years in accordance with his principles and the traditions of his ancestors.
