01.01.2012
“Political apathy is a choice, apathy against nature is suicide” reads the placard of the youth who have occupied The Eagles’ Bridge in sofia as part of the protest against the ruling of the supreme Administrative Court to delete strandzha National Park from the register of the protected territories. Mountains, rivers, dunes, cliffs, coastal areas, plant and animal species, habitats and unique natural landmarks can disappear from the face of the Earth by a single word “deletion”.
01.01.2012
A foreigner unintentionally stranded in Austria is trying everything to get to his original destination of Spain. A restorer who earns money on the side by painting icons has had enough of her ex-husband’s intrusions. He is searching for the right words to get her back whilst sniffing around in the private lives of mixed marriage couples as part of his job as a police officer. A gambling addict is hoping for assistance from a dubious financial institution. All of them are in search of happiness. But there is always a price for happiness.
01.01.2012
The documentary film explores historically the phenomenon of the socialist Realism. Using a lot of archives, footage, photos, documents and analysis of the processes in art, the authors show the clearest manifestations of the socialist Realism and trace the origin, bloom and the decline of this method. With pain and humour the film tells dramatic human stories and shows the works of talented authors and artists in Bulgaria. The film also reveals the conditions in which the artists lived and worked and shows how the cultural policy of the USSR dominated the processes in the country and the entire socialist region.
01.01.2012
We are all like pieces in a Jigsaw Puzzle, where one piece only fits another, particular piece, so that you get the Picture right. Often, however, fate chooses to place a different piece instead – looking almost the same, yet not quite… and there always remains an empty space in-between. So can fate actually be rewritten?
01.01.2012
The past haunts the present, fact meets fiction, and myth rivals reality to tell the fascinating story of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, from his exile as a boy-king through his glorious return as a republican politician to his fall from grace in one of the greatest experiments of democracy today.
01.01.2012
A hundred-year-old church that regularly emerges only to be submerged again by the waters of a huge dam is the venue, where Father Zlatan is trying to organize a gathering of the surviving descendants of the sunken village scattered all over the world. An arrogant politician surgeon, a vicar, who is also an operetta singer, a woman, who has become a famous international journalist, and an Italian student endure significant vicissitudes, from Rome to Kandahar via Vienna, only to discover it is fate that leads them back to their predecessors’ roots.
01.01.2012
Gabrovo. Two houses, almost next to one another. A father, and two brothers who never met. The younger was born 10 years after the execution of the elder. But both have the same name – Mitko Trifonov Palauzov. The film explores the history of the child and the propaganda story that ruined the life of the living man, who had to go by the name of his dead brother for half a century. This is a film about lying to the dead and the effort of the living brother to make at least his life real.
01.01.2012
A maniacal informant creates his own phantom secret-police department. He recruits a group of unsuspecting intellectuals to spy on each other. After the fall of Communism he uses his secret archive to wreak havoc on the government. The movie offers a paradoxical twist in the standard representation of totalitarianism as a society of victims and victimizers. This is a story without innocents. Secret policing reveals its dark nature not only in its nauseating cruelties, but also most suggestively, in its deviant pleasures.
01.01.2012
In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve almost 2 million, Krasi, Mila and Plamen are our unlikely heroes: chain-smoking, filled with humour, relentlessly saving lives against all odds. Yet, the strain of a broken system is taking a human toll: how long can we count on their humanity to handle it? The film uses an unorthodox creative form, which dodges sensationalism. We are captivated by the faces of our protagonists, their reactions, and the sounds surrounding one of sofia's last ambulances.