01.01.2008
Margarita leaves famous reporter Marco Matanich and joins her brother going for windsurfing with his friends from different Balkan countries. They speak their own languages, but understand each other pretty well. Marco arrives on their island “only” for the surfboard she stole from him. Meanwhile a dead calm succeeds. Lacking their mania, the men start fighting over the usual nationalistic issues. Now they speak only English, to “better understand each other”. Marco, to prove his skills to Margarita shoots them in a manipulative reportage “Who’s lying in the Balkans”. Quoted by a leading newspaper it provokes a conflict between the Balkan countries. The friends build “national borders” between their tents while Margarita disappears in the open sea. Will the men find her and will everyone find peace? It depends on one’s readiness to invest love and on the wind one deserves to get.
01.01.2008
Two women – a forgetful foreign tourist and a nutty Bulgarian villager meet in a desolate village in the mountains. Despite the ensuing conflicts caused by the language barrier, cultural and personality differences, they discover true friendship. What could possibly come out of this? A miracle – for sure!
01.01.2008
The largest river in Europe, the Danube, takes its sources from Germany and, after crossing 8 European countries, flows into the Black Sea. Virtuoso musicians from the countries along the Danube met onboard a ship. They sailed upstream in order to play the music springing from the native customs and traditions of their nations. In the language of music they managed to efface the boundaries, either actual or imaginary, which still exist in the minds of people.
01.01.2008
25 years later Alex is in a German hospital with amnesia after a severe car crash, in which his parents were killed. Bai Dan goes off to Germany, where he teaches his grandson backgammon. The ancient game restores Alex back to life. Bai Dan gets Alex out of the hospital and they hit the road, wheeling a tandem bicycle. On this journey back to Bulgaria and to the past, Alex gets his memory back, and with it, the will to live again.
01.01.2008
A bomb blast during a tussle of soccer fans in downtown Sofia claims an innocent life. An investigation is launched. The interrogations confront the detective with a gang of violators, who commit acts of vandalism at football stadiums. Dimo Kareto is one of them, a teenaged football buff, who starting with playing football in his neighbourhood as thousands of kids do, ends up in court.
01.01.2008
A film about the unknown life of the distinguished Bulgarian writer Yordan Yovkov in his capacity of a soldier, correspondent, friend, missionary and chronicler of the agony, sufferings and yearning of the ordinary men in wartime. Small pieces of melodramatic stories at the war fronts, which the writer actually experienced and wrote about…