1998

A Bessarabian Bulgarian who has graduated in film directing in Sofia has made a revealing portrait of his family in the Ukraine. Its fate reflects the ethnic, political and social dimensions of our present time.

The film traces the schism in the Bulgarian church. Some of its reasons are rooted in the Bulgarian history, others – in the events of the last several years. The people’s need for faith is in contradiction with the petty quarrels in the higher clergy, who have forgotten their mission of being spiritual leaders.

A film story about a man who loses his only home because he tries to legally build a dairy farm under prime-minister Videnov.

Uncle Methodi and aunt Budinka from the village of Lozen are industrious people, bound to their land and concerned about it. Until the restitution of the land within its actual limits is protracted for an indefinite period of time they, like many others, cultivate small pieces of land in the most primitive way, in order to make their living.

In a God-forsaken village somewhere in the Eastern Rhodopes a bunch of old men carry on the remains of their days. They live bound the their own existence just like Sisyphus and the stone. The film story takes place within a single day – twenty four hours before Christmas.

A portrait of the Balkanton Formation Studio - FSB, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.