01.01.2006
Juliet, a white girl, falls in love with a darkskinned Romeo, a divine trumpet player from a Roma orchestra. Her father Satchmo, a leader of the rival white band is disgusted with Romeo’s skin color. At the upcoming festival of trumpeters Romeo must prove to him that, due to his talent, he is the right man for his daughter. Satchmo would give away his daughter’s hand to the boy only if Romeo proves to be better than him.
01.01.2006
Commissioner Aslan is the highest-ranking officer of Turkish extraction in German police. He has been sent to Kreuzberg to stop the drug war between the Turkish gang of Murat and the skinheads led by Eichler. In the neighbourhood somebody is meticulously killing Turkish children. The killer is not only taking young lives but is marking them with the deadly wax masks of racial hatred. is an appeal against xenophobia, which is spreading around the world.
01.01.2006
A film about Binka Zhelyazkova, the first woman film director in Bulgaria and her extraordinary life in cinema. In the span of 40 years in film, Binka Zhelyazkova faced disappointment over communism, censorship, banned films and long periods of silence, but nevertheless her pictures reached audiences far beyond Bulgaria at such renowned film festivals as these held in Cannes and Moscow. By following into her footsteps, the director seeks to rediscover her own roots and to give a voice to this exceptional woman and a filmmaker.
01.01.2006
A film about poet Kiril Hristov, about the events, excitements, figures and the atmosphere in the late 19th and the early 20th cc. as well as about the spiritual deadlock we have found ourselves in. Facts and events, pivotal to the history of the nation have been obliterated, erased, distorted or have reached the next generations misrepresented. Subsidiary or creatively mediocre figures have replaced the genuine spiritual leaders of the nation. Consequently, one of the best Bulgarian poets has remained almost unknown.
01.01.2006
Life in a free world and hell in the heart. This is the lifestory of Stefane Groueff – a Bulgarian writer with American citizenship, who spent 26 years working for the French Paris Match magazine. Stefane Groueff stays in Switzerland – beyond the Iron Curtain – in 1944 and makes an amazing career. He meets the celebrities of the 20th c., making friends with many of them. But during his entire life outside his homeland he feels enormous bitterness and guilt because of his relatives, who have stayed in Bulgaria. An emotional film featuring the incredible appeal of Stefane Groueff and a lot of unique footages from French, Swiss, American and Bulgarian archives of the period.
01.01.2006
A tough journey of a woman from the comfort of her German home back to her roots; to the hard existence in her fatherland, which is both striving for survival and a sense of life … A long journey of a small East-European post-socialist country to the high living standards of the West… A film about the “road to Europe” that goes through Bulgarian village – to a destination unknown…