Ivan Savov

After years of saving from the petty bribes they collect, sixty-year-old Marina and Gosha from Bulgaria dream of travelling to Saint Petersburg for the White Nights. When Russia invades Ukraine and the travel agency vanishes with all their savings, their dream collapses along with their illusion of control over their morals and their relationship.

Cold follows the intertwining lives of residents in a small border village in the Tran region during the late 20th century. The story unfolds across four episodes set in different periods: three winter stories following a group of villagers who meet at their local pub, and a final spring chapter. Spanning 1968 to 2000, the film traces the gradual depopulation of the village, culminating in its total abandonment.

Bashtata, karısı vefat eden bir adamın hikayesini konu ediyor. Vasil, uzun zamandır hayat arkadşı olan karısı Ivanka’yı kaybedince büyük bir yıkıma uğrar. Cenazede ortaya çıkan bir durum Vasil’in hayatının değişmesine neden olur. Cenazeye gelen bir kadın, ölen Ivanka’nın kendisini sürekli telefonla aradığını söyler. Doğaüstü olaylara karşı zaafı olan Vasil, karısı işe temasa geçebilmek için ünlü bir medyumdan randevu alır. Medyum ile buluşmak için yola çıkan Vasil’e bu yolculuğunda ayakları yere basan oğlu Pavel eşlik eder.

Savaşın sona ermesiyle Stalin, ülkeyi terkeden Rusları geri çağırır. Yetenekli genç doktor Alexei Golovine (Oleg Menchikov) yanında güzel Fransız eşi Marie (Sandrine Bonnaire) ve oğulları, iyi düşüncelerle Sovyetler Birliği'ne geri dönerler. Ancak ülkeye varmalarının ardından yapılan sorgulanmaları başka bir takım savaş sonrası Rusya gerçekleri izleyecektir, paylaşılan apartmanlar, şüpheli komşular ve özel hayat yokluğu. Marie kısa süre sonra şartlara isyan etmeye başlayacaktır. Ancak Aleksei yeteneklerine ihtiyaç duyulduğunu ve yetkililer tarafından takdir edildiğini anlar. Marie tira çıkmış Fransız bir aktris (Catherine Deneuve) ile karşılaşır ve kendini zor bir seçimle karşı karşıya bulur: Özgürlüğü için kocasını ve çoğunu bırakacak ya da belirsiz bir gelecekle yüz yüze kalacaktır.

A small town in present-day Bulgaria. A mother and her two daughters are struggling to survive. The dreamy and distracted younger daughter often invents stories in order to make life more interesting. Unwittingly, she eventually gets caught in the trap of her own lies and destroys her older sister's well-ordered materialistic world. Meanwhile, the two sisters find out the truth about their mother

A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers and psychics embarked on a top-secret military operation in the small village of Tsarichina to dig up an elusive alien artifact that would change the course of history and make Bulgaria great again.

The contrast of a hippie style commune up in the mountain and a drug addicts rehab center in the valley. What could go wrong if someone escapes the rehab?

An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin.

The trumpet player, Jonah, moves into the remains of his grandfather's house near where the treasure is hidden. In a tunnel under the house he finds a stone with a bird engraved on it and a map with an inscription in Arabic: "To have a house of gold, fall onto the sky and find the twin!" A copy of the same map brings Rumba and Emma to the same place. Rumba is Bulgarian and a passionate treasure-hunter. His wife is American and studies Bulgarian folklore as a way to fight globalization. Rumba wants to buy Jonah's property so he can find the treasure.

Svetla, a widow who lost her job recently is living next to the Bulgarian-Turkish border. There are many cases of refugees in her village due to its location. One day she meets a refugee from Africa and this changes her life.

Four friends and three girls spend a summer on a desolated beach, living in an abandoned hut.

A famous metropolitan journalist decides to pay a surprise visit to his classmate Pancho in the countryside. Pancho has gone to town and his wife has to greet the guest. Under the curious eyes of the neighbors, the two are waiting for him to come back home. The awkwardness between them intensifies. How will they sleep under one roof? What will people say?

Ponko is one of the newly rich who made their fortune gambling as an elite player in a small town. In order to avoid dealing with other competitive players of the same kind, he settled a deal for himself to do time at a low security detention facility. He can still be in charge of his deal from prison with the help of his wife Rada. Yet, he bets and loses Rada to another prisoner at a game, which gives that man the right to spend a night with her, as well as to join the elite of players he is part of. Rada has feelings for Ponko's cousin but when she brings some money she has won at a game to him, she learns that he made a deal with Ponko to take care of her while he is in prison. She tries to get out of the vicious circle of crime but fails to do so. The corrupt world of blurred concepts of good and evil has engulfed them all and turned them into predators and victims of its poison.

It is a story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is raw. Their concepts of man's dignity, friendship and duty are wrong and primitive. The film helps us to understand and forgive them.

Vesa, a 16-year old Bulgarian girl, cannot speak. A fortune-teller predicts that the girl will convalesce if somebody sacrifices their life for her. The fortune-teller's mentally challenged nephew, who comes to hear the prophecy, follows the girl.

Irina is a part-time waitress in a small Bulgarian town. On the very same day when she is fired, her husband gets into a serious accident. Irina's family is trapped in poverty. To make ends meet, she becomes a surrogate mother. Fights, despair and the seed of life growing in her belly bring on another wave to this rough and wrecked life. Slowly, Irina discovers what it means to love and to forgive.

8 minutes and 19 seconds – that’s all the time we have until the news about the death of the sun reaches us. That's what it takes for the light to travel from there to here. And then the darkness comes… But the theme of this Apocalypse is not necessarily going to be expressed through a global cataclysm, horsemen of the apocalypse, angels of death, fire and destruction. It will rather be shown as something very personal, intimate and almost silent.

Demiryolu hat bekçisi Tzanko Petrov (Stefan Denolyubov), bir gün raylar arasında büyük miktarda para bulur ancak parayı cebine atmak yerine üstlerine para bulduğunu bildirir. Bulgaristan Ulaştırma Bakanlığı’nın halkla ilişkiler sorumlusu çok bilmiş Julia Staykova ( Margita Gosheva), bunu devletin karıştığı yolsuzluk skandalını kapatmak için bir fırsat olarak görür ve Tzanko’yu işçi sınıfının kahramanı olarak gösterdiği bir tören düzenler. Tören sırasında heyecanlanan ve sürekli kekeleyerek konuşan gariban Tzanko basına bir kahraman olarak lanse edilirken Julia’nın ekibi tarafından alaya alınır. Ulaştırma Bakanı’nın Tzanko’ya yeni bir dijital saat hediye etmesi için Julia, Tzanko’nun babasından yadigar kalan eski Slava marka saatini yok eder.

In the old houses of a mountain village, intellectuals from the capital city have settled down. One of the settlers, a notorious bohemian and joker, left a funeral screenplay and video recordings directing his farewell to life. Nobody is aware that he has purchased a burial plot in the cemetery with a rock underneath it. While building his tomb, his confessions, memories and jokes are flowing from the improvised film shows at the local pub and the mourning ceremony evolves into a bash.

When Boyan goes to Albena's office to receive his fee he meets a strange and detached middle aged woman. As there is a problem with the payment they have to go to the bank together, despite their obvious dislike for one another. On the way though events change - Albena's dog is very sick and she needs to decide whether to put it to sleep or not. Suddenly Boyan becomes the only witness of her struggle. But will he get involved in such a private matter with a stranger? Especially in a time when all he wants is to get his money he urgently needs for something?

2003 Bulgarian film

The elderly Stoyan has advanced dementia and his daughter Iliana decides to organize a trip for him, in which Stoyan can see his sister and other relatives, her son Vesko can create precious memories with his grandfather, and she can spend her last days with what little is left of her father, who will soon know no one.

On her anniversary, Sofia gathers her three daughters - writer Vyara, devoted mother Nadya and lost soul Lyuba. But the celebration is shaken by an unexpected incident - Nadya's husband Stefan mysteriously disappears. This reveals deeply buried secrets and forces the women to confront the past, the choices they have made and the fragile bonds between them.