2002

01.01.2002

EMIGRANTS

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.
01.01.2002

THE MERRY BOYS

Lyubo is a 53-year-old and he can’t sing as he used to. He is not welcomed in the band anymore. Todor is a lonely, 38-years-old bachelor. Only when he plays his guitar in the streets he forgets his solitude. Both Lyubo and Todor are part of a six-member band of blind street musicians. Shall the band get rid of Lyubo? Shall they go to the seaside to earn some money… or shall this further exhaust their tight budget?
01.01.2002

HOW EUROPE CAME TO BULGARIA

The film tells about the influence of European culture on Bulgaria in the easy 20 c. This is a story full of humor, lot of information and philosophy of the new century. Let us turn back with a smile and see how it has happened hundred years ago in Bulgaria.
01.01.2002

BREAD OVER THE FENCE

Two small villages, populated with representatives of one of the most oppressed religious communities in Bulgaria – the Catholics. How do they get along today with their neighbors – Orthodox Christians and Muslims?
01.01.2002

NEIGHBORS

The only difference between two neighbors, musicians by profession, is in being alike. They are waging the same old war between neighbors with no winners or losers. What about this one?!
01.01.2002

BUMPETY-BUMP

A boy and his Granny work up their own version of the tale about Bogeyman. She phones Bogeyman’s help-line to complain about her grandson – he’s been bouncing wildly on the mattress and won’t go to bed! Bogeyman comes flying on a carpet-beater – to punish the child and rescue the poor mattress. He takes him away into his bag… But when you stop fearing him, Bogeyman is nothing but a sleepy old eccentric. You may even like him!
01.01.2002

FLEA

Paradoxical adventure of a flea.
01.01.2002

WARMING UP YESTERDAY`S LUNCH

Republic of Macedonia after the disintegration of communist Yugoslavia. A woman has decided to speak out after forty years of keeping silence. The revealing of secrets, which have been kept very carefully for such a long time, stirs commotion among the powers that be. And they decide to take action. Warming up Yesterday’s Lunch is a film about events in which the line between good and evil has been completely blurred. The characters that refuse to accept this fact are destined to pay a high price.
01.01.2002

THE ASSISTANT

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.
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