2014

01.01.2014

LOVE & ENGINEERING

A documentary about the incompatibility between women and engineers. The film follows 34-year-old Atanas, a Bulgarian mathematician living in Finland, who is - based on his experiences - trying to structure a scientific formula of love and dating. Atanas holds mentoring sessions for engineering students encouraging them to date women and giving them guidance how to behave with them. The students date and return to Atanas, who analyses their experience and then tries to formulate his theory.
01.01.2014

THE DEAD OPEN THE EYES OF THE LIVING

A gory epic of the late 10th and the early 11th century brings up a tricky and vital issue for the contemporary Bulgarians and Macedonians of their common origins, shared hard history and common future... Disputes would only gain momentum in 2014 with the 1000th anniversary since the Battle of Kleidion and King Samuel's tragic demise...
01.01.2014

THE ENLIGHTENING LIFE STORY OF PROSEK BROTHERS

The documentary tells both the story of the Proshek brothers and delves deep into the atmosphere of the early 20th century, a time, when Bulgaria used to be an attractive place for career development and investing. This is the story of hard-working and enterprising people, no matter where they come from, a story about the long life relations between West and East Europe. This is also a story about memory, about its fickleness and inconsistency; about the necessity to remember for there is no future without remembering the past. This is a story about unkind fate and the efforts to confront it staying true to yourself.
01.01.2014

THE MAN FROM EUROPE

Was Dr. Christian Rakovsky a statesman, a politician or a diplomat? Or was he more of a statesman than a politician or more of a diplomat than a statesman and a politician? Or was he all in one? Who was he: A Romanian national of Bulgarian extraction, educated in France and befriending Russians? The documentary provides answers to all these questions and many more.
01.01.2014

THE REVENGE: STATE SECURITY’S LONG SHADOW

Two death sentences and two informer cards. The cynicism of the totalitarian system in action today.
01.01.2014

THREE CANDLES

A young woman is searching for the truth about her great-grandfather, an Inter-allied War hero, Nicola Magdin, following in his footsteps one hundred years later. His last days on the front, in a POW camp and being reported missing after that are veiled in mystery. During her investigation, the granddaughter finds facts about a tragedy nobody wants to talk about.
01.01.2014

BUFFER ZONE

01.01.2014

A STORY FROM THE WOOLLEN KINGDOM

The King of the Woollen Kingdom decides to present his Queen with a golden wall hanging, a picture of her own face as a birthday gift. The golden wool of the mythical monster Ovenalon has to be sheared for the purpose. But someone steals the tapestry from the wall. A smart and brave detective ventures to find the valuable gift and save the King's face...
01.01.2014

BULGARIAN RHAPSODY

The summer of 1943. The Jews of Greater Bulgaria must obey the laws of Germany. Moni and Giogio meet Shelly (17) and their friendship is put to the test as they both fall in love with her, while the war rages. The Bulgarians are ordered to deport the Jews; trains traverse Bulgaria with 11,343 Jews from Macedonia and Thrace. What befalls the three youngsters is a reflection of the life in Bulgaria and that of the Jews in the Balkans in WWII with its anguish and atrocities leaving their mark on them.
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