2009

The story of is all about the time and the space of the past moved on to the reality of today. It is not only a tribute to Nikola Vaptsarov on the occasion of his 100th anniversary, rather the work conveys the message of the poet to the present day young generation of the exceptional power of human spirit turning the experience of suffering for a better life into a triumph.

In Cuba everything is expressed in music: declaration of love or rich harvest, birth of a child or loss of a donkey, longing or melancholy. Though the Cuban music is wellknown all over the world, few know what "son“ and "bolero“ mean, when these styles emerged and where they originated from. Thanks to the great Bulgarian singer Jordanka Hristova we are opening the secret room of Cuban music and the forgotten files, where the history of "son“ and "bolero“ is kept.

The documentary tells the story of the builders of contemporary Bulgaria. These people are ordinary Bulgarians, ethnic Turks and Gypsies with scrubby chins, brimming with expectations, toil-worn, and ground down by poverty; men and women of different ethnic groups, ages and social backgrounds, assigned to work at the Black Sea coast for more than nine months per year. Life has brought them together at random or so it seems. The film follows these people during their days at the construction works, their evenings in the pubs and their short vacations at home.

An artist is searching to establish dialogue in the chaotic system of values and the lack of spirituality in the surrounding environment. He finds his "bridge over the wall“ in different parts of the world with people of various denominations. With the same passion he paints pictures, decorates churches and composes music. He believes that artistic language is nearer to people than the language of the politicians.

is a documentary about the man, the writer, the script-writer Pavel Vezhinov. This is a film about our spiritual memory.

The documentary is the fourth part, the finale of the series: Striving for Novelty, How Europe Came to Bulgaria, The French Woman of the Bulgarian NCO, showing the everyday life and mentality of the common Bulgarians in the period 1850–1950. On May 1st, 1945 everything seems clear to Bulgaria: the WWII is coming to an end, people cherish a hope for peace and prosperity. Or at least that is what is suggested by the smiles on the faces of the officials on the photo, on which the story is based. Yet this country’s history took a different turn. The documentary attempts at telling as to why history has failed to follow the formal logic of the photo.