1996

This film tells of the environmental destruction of the valley between Varna and Devnya. The heavy metals in the soil are a time bomb. The film poses the question who allowed the destruction of the local crabs in favour of Sodi-Devnya chemical plants.

A film-anthology of reminiscences, useful advice, interpretations and anticipations such as they were recorded by the Tryavna wood-carvers and icon-painters in the church chronicles, their guidebooks and family bibles. The iconostases created by these men in different parts of Bulgaria contain the whole Christian philosophy and form the moral values of the Bulgarians of the age.

A story of a group of bear keepers and their bears concentrating on the strange and cruel link between man and animal whose fate is to spend their lives on the two ends of a chain.

Vassil Ivanov was a very talented Bulgarian artist who received little fame and recognition in his home land. His paintings are famous all over the world and have shared tha walls of galleries with the classics of French impressionism. However, he is still unrecognized in Bulgaria, deliberately or otherwise. No-one is a prophet in his own home.

The rich and eventful biography of a great Bulgarian Georgi Rakovski, his deeds rank his name in the same line with those of Giuseppe Garibaldi and Lajos Kossuth. Without unnecessary modesty and any inferiority complexes this film tells of his life in an entertaining and convincing manner.

This is a film about the culture, religion and the ancient traditions of the Kazulbashka muslim community in Bulgaria in which woman is the equal to man. It is an entertaining story of the common pagan root of the religions, tolerance and eternal human values.

This film is dedicated to the life of the artist Boris Georgiev, a student of Rurich, who lived and worked in India. At the cost of deprivation and suffering he justified his mission to be a mediator between God and men. His art radiates an extraordinary spiritual beauty which opens the doors of universal love.

This is a film about the difficult and unpredictable life of Peter Dinev, a composer of liturgical music. He was a witness of the collapse of three empires, twice witnessed the mass desecration of churches but he managed to preserve the spirit of the Bulgarian Renaissance to the present day. is an attempt to unify the Byzantine tradition, modern European thought and the experience of a man who lived in a state which does not like its own citizens.