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.

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…

Hayat (14), her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat’s father owns a small boat that secures the family’s survival trough a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat’s life is harsh and unrelenting. But Hayat has an instinct for survival. In a world full of losers, Hayat is mistaken for one herself.

This is a film about what unites all people across the world regardless of their colour, age or religion. A picture about love and beauty.