1994

The end of the 9th and the beginning of the 10th century A.D. The literature created in the major cultural centre of Veliki Preslav, in the Old Bulgarian Language, helps spread the cultural achievements of Christianity. By means of visual materials from Veliki Preslav, Constantinople and the Madrid Library; the correspondence between Patriarch Nicholas I the Mystic and Tsar Simeon; Constantine of Preslav, John the Exarch and other men of letters’ written works, this film reminds of the actual contribution of Bulgarians to the world cultural process.

Deliormana is a place in North East Bulgaria. The ethnic and religious problems which have accumulated over the years are reflected deeply in the hearts of the people in this region. The question is who does this ancient land of the Thracians belong to now? In its examination of the visitors to this holy place the film suggests that everyone has the rights to worship their own god in their search for religious and ethnic tolerance.

Alain and Marie are French followers of the religious teaching founded by the Bylgarian spiritual teacher Petar Dunov. In 1990 they cross semi-legally several borders and come to Bulgaria. Their daughter Noenne is born. The French family starts living in the most primitive conditions, trying to follow the principles of the teaching, At first the local peasants treat them with sympathy, but the clash of the different values is unavoidable.

The film is an attempt to uncover the reasons which will make a good programmer turn to creating computer viruses and to show the resulting damages. The action is based on interviews with various specialists in this field. Could computer viruses be a symptom of the plague of modern society in its striving to create artificial intellect?

The executive power in Bulgaria personified by the prime-ministers from the Liberation to modern times. The film discusses the problem of power and the way it is used in compliance with the laws of parliamentary democracy.

A publicistic film about the problem that arose after the partial restitution of some Bulgarian factories. The story concentrates on the lives of three heirs of well-known factory-owning families from Sliven. Each of them, today already an old-age pensioner, has had incredible hardships in their active life, persecuted for the sole reason that they were heirs of their fathers and grandfathers. Today, when persecution and repressions are history, when the restitution is a fact, those people are faced with a quite complex and contradictory situation in their attempts, in spite of all obstacles, to become textile manufacturers and to continue the family tradition. Constant pogroms in Bulgaria inevitably lead to everything having to start anew every 50-60 years.