Through the personal fate of the Bulgarian dissident Grigor Bozhilov Simov, one of the founders of our Human Rights Association, there transpire the processes that went on beneath the surface of events making of Bulgaria what she is today. What has happened Why did it happen the way it did The years spent in prison, the repeated internments, the struggle for human rights, the...
皮林是保加利亚一处僻静的山村,大自然的蔓延使得那里的人烟日渐稀少。如今仅剩的130位居民多为寡妇或单身汉。大多数年轻人选择移居西欧,寻求更好的生活。影片把目光投向了那些留下的人:努力改变村庄命运的村长,忍受着不可避免的衰落的牧羊人,试图守护无法留存之物的寡妇,以及传说中徘徊在村庄上方等待时机的神龙。
Ivan, 58, is a seagull, a Bulgarian ladies’ man hooking up with female tourists at a Sunny Beach resort. He has done this for forty years, ever since the Communist times. Ivan wants to settle down, but that’s not so easy for an old Seagull. He’s got no savings and the pandemic makes things even more difficult: there are no tourists. Ivan supports himself by washing cars and win...
PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE tells the stories of the most emblematic five buildings of socialist times - highly representative for the epoch and witnessing the historical turbulence in Eastern Europe in the second half of the XX century. The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Moscow State University, Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, Palace of the...
“In Sofia, the residents of a mythical building had been evicted. I had come to hunt for film locations.” After this brief introductory title card, we discover what makes this Bulgarian building mythical, why its residents were evicted and how location-hunting turned into a film, as Bojina Panayotova seems to have experienced it: like a sudden burst of enthusiasm that tips real...
We have witnessed how a roma baby Ilya was left by his mum for an international adoption in 1993. 20 years later the young Frenchman came to Bulgaria to visit his mother and his seven brothers and sisters. An emotional film for the collision of cultures. Other Bulgarian children found parents abroad while shooting "The Long Way Home".
Our modern life is largely designed by engineers. They like to invent and structure things and they are more at ease with figures and natural science than in relations with opposite sex. Atanas, a Bulgarian computer engineer claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely and shy engineers find real love and real happiness As he is trying to develop a scientific formula for...