September 28-th - October 3-rd, 2015
The participation of Bulgarian Red Cross in the Balkan War
Bulgaria, 2012, 28 min., documentary
Director: Vladimir Kaperski
Cinematographer: Nikolay Kostov
Editor: Rosen Donchev
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross
Bulgaria, 2008, 30 min., documentary
Director: Stoyan Enev
Cinematographer: Emil Topuzov
Script: Antonii Donchev and professor Bozhidar Manov
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross
Bulgaria, 2014, 4 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Burgas
Bulgaria, 2014, 2:24 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Gabrovo
Bulgaria, 2009 г., 23 min., documentary
Cinematographer and editor: Stanislav Kolev - Stas
Script: Mariana Ivanova
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Dobrich
Bulgaria, 2006, 2 min., documentary
Cinematographer and editor: Stanislav Kolev – Stas
Script: Mariana Ivanova
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Dobrich
Bulgaria, 2007, 16:30 min., documentary
Script: d-r Artyun Erinozov
Cinematographer and editor: Stanislav Kolev – Stas
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Dobrich
100 years BRC - Kardzali
Bulgaria, 2014, 15 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Kardzali
Bulgaria, 2011, 18 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Lovech
Bulgaria, 1:30 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Plovdiv
Bulgaria, 12 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Plovdiv
Bulgaria, 2011, 13 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council - Russe
Bulgaria, 13 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross – Regional Council – Stara Zagora
Bulgaria, 2013, 28 min., documentary
Director: Iliyan Petrov
Script: Iliyan Petrov
Cinematographer: Dimitar Balabanov
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross Youth
Bulgaria, 2013, 16 min., documentary
Director: Milena Kraleva
Cinematographer: Gabriel Galchev, Kristian Georgiev and Dimitar Peshev
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross Youth
Bulgaria, 2014, 17:30 min., documentary
Director: Milena Kraleva
Cinematographer: Gabriel Galchev
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross Youth
Bulgaria, 2014, 20 min., documentary
Director: Azhar Alomar and Stefan Tanev
Cinematographer: Bozhidar Simeonov
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross Youth
Bulgaria, 2014, 19 min., documentary
Director: Uzay Kabakch
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross Youth
Bulgaria, 2014, 12 min., documentary
Production: Bulgarian Red Cross Youth with the support of Danish Red Cross
Germany, 3 min., documentary
Production: German Red Cross
Germany, 2010, 28 min., documentary
Production: German Red Cross
Germany, 2014, 18 min., documentary
Production: German Red Cross
Kyrgystan, 2013, 14 min., documentary
Production: Kyrgyz Red Crescent Society.
China, 7 min., documentary
Production: Red Cross Society Henan, China
Lebanon, 2014, 8 min., documentary
Director: Naji Bechara
Producer: Rodney Eid
Production: Lebanese Red Cross
Lebanon, 2014, 8 min., documentary
Production: Lebanese Red Cross
Lebanon, 2014, 8 min., documentary
Director: Naji Bechara
Producer: Rodney Eid
Production: Lebanese Red Cross
Lebanon, 2014, 8 min., documentary
Director: Naji Bechara
Producer: Rodney Eid
Production: Lebanese Red Cross
Lebanon, 2014, 7 min., documentary
Production: Lebanese Red Cross
Mexico, 2014, 6 min., documentary
Production: Mexican Red Cross
Mexico, 10 min., documentary
Production: Mexican Red Cross
Mexico, 6 min., documentary
Production: Mexican Red Cross
New Zealand, 11 min., documentary
Production: New Zealand Red Cross
Fourteen local Hawke’s Bay Red Cross members share their stories with humour and heartfelt honesty about the activities they do for Red Cross and what it means for them to be involved in the largest humanitarian organization in the world. These stories and experiences range from the rural community fund-raising lunches and daily meals on wheels to witnessing the destruction of the Christchurch earthquake and the war zones of Afghanistan. Counsellor of Honour, Joan Cockburn, encapsulates the belief and commitment. “You can’t go dealing with other countries in a war zone trying to exchange prisoners of war if you are not neutral and impartial and that’s the crux of Red Cross work. The rest is looking after people and that’s what we do”.
Peru, 14:12 min., documentary
Production: Peruvian Red Cross and Spanish Red Cross
Peru, 7:39 min., documentary
Production: Peruvian Red Cross
Peru, 2015, 28:22 min., documentary
Production: Peruvian Red Cross
Turkey, 2010, 24 min., documentary
Director: Armagan Pekkaya
Production: Turkish Red Crescent
There are 2.000.000 people, consisting mainly of women and children, living in Darfur camp without having the rights of nutrition, sheltering, health, security, education and justice.
Turkey, 4 min., documentary
Director: Armagan Pekkaya
Cinematographer: Ozgur Alt?nay
Editor: Serkan Ozakaptan
Production: Turkish Red Crescent
Turkey, 8 min., documentary
Director: Armagan Pekkaya
Cinematographer: Ozgur Alt?nay
Editor: Serkan Ozakaptan
Production: Turkish Red Crescent
Turkey, 4 min., documentary
Director: Armagan Pekkaya
Cinematographer: Ozgur Alt?nay
Editor: Serkan Ozakaptan
Production: Turkish Red Crescent
Turkey, 2 min., documentary
Director: Armagan Pekkaya
Cinematographer: Ozgur Alt?nay
Editor: Serkan Ozakaptan
Production: Turkish Red Crescent
Finland, 9 min., documentary
Production: Finnish Red Cross
Finland, 13 min., documentary
Production: Finnish Red Cross
Finland, 10 min., documentary
Production: Finnish Red Cross
Finland, 6 min., documentary
Production: Finnish Red Cross
Finland, 8 min., documentary
Production: Finnish Red Cross
Switzerland, 2013, 20 min., documentary
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Switzerland, 2011, 20 min., documentary
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Switzerland, 2012, 30 min., documentary
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Switzerland, 2008, 16 min., documentary
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Switzerland, 2013, 14 min., documentary
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Switzerland, 2014, 2 min., documentary
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Switzerland, 14 min., documentary
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Switzerland, 2014, 9:46 min., documentary
Buho Films
Production: Swiss Red Cross
The voluntary health promoters are an important link between the indigenous communities of Ecuador and the health system. They accompany health brigades on their outreach programme and transfer important health knowledge to the people. Thanks to many young volunteers, their peers hear about culturally sensitive issues like sexual reproductive health and are empowered to protect themselves better from early pregnancy and HIV infection.
Switzerland, 2013, 9:21 min., documentary
Fabian Biasio
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Health promotion is high on the agenda of the Ministry of Health in Kyrgyzstan. More than 18 000 volunteers support important health actions in all rural villages of the country. The film shows the successes and challenges of a national health promotion programme using the example of two health actions – brucellose and hypertension.
Switzerland, 2014, 9:16 min., documentary
Alexey Yarshevich
Production: Swiss Red Cross
The visiting service of the Belarus Red Cross supports the elderly and lonely in their homes. Red Cross volunteers visit regularly and passionately care for their beneficiaries. They run errands, do household chores and perform some basic medical tasks. Often the volunteers are their only contacts to the outside world. Their visit brightens the day and contributes immensely to the mental wellbeing of the elderly.
Switzerland, 2014, 8:14 min., documentary
Adri Berger
Production: Swiss Red Cross
In Laos the Red Cross volunteers play an important role in bridging traditional and spiritual healing and western medicine. Besides health education and health promotion, they provide First Aid, help to construct water supply systems and latrines. The villagers are thankful for their support. Thanks to the volunteers, the health and hygiene situation in the villages has much improved.
Switzerland, 2014, 9:19 min., documentary
Alex Koffigan Hukporti
Production: Swiss Red Cross
In the Central Region of Togo, hundreds of volunteers of the Togolese Red Cross Society are engaged in promoting mother and child health, better hygiene and infectious disease control. The Governmental health services appreciate the help of the Red Cross volunteers very much. Thanks to them a cholera epidemic outbreak was foregone.
Switzerland, 2014, 13:57 min., documentary
Noe Valladares
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Every year floods and inundations are threatening the lives of the people in Baja Lempa , in the South of El Salvador. Volunteers of the Salvadorian Red Cross help to evacuate the affected population in special shelters. They also eliminate breeding places of dangerous mosquitoes and ensure that families have access to safe drinking water and sanitation during the floods.
Switzerland, 2014, 10:10 min., documentary
Md. Abdul-Mumin, Musa Hamza
Production: Swiss Red Cross
Being blind in Ghana means being dependent and lonely. The volunteers of the Ghana Red Cross ensure that blind people affected by cataract regain their eye sight and independence. They bring blind people to public hospitals, where they are operated. Their work of bringing light into people’s life is much appreciated by the health personnel and the affected families in the rural areas of Ghana.
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Bulgaria, 2015, 38 min., documentary
Author and director: Iva Martinova
Consultant: Proff. Violeta Yotova M.D.
Reporter: Daniela Ivanova
Cinematographer: Lazar Elenkov, Evtim Hristov
Editor: Tihomir Stoyanov, Anatolii Dobrev
Production:Medical university – Varna
The film reveals the hardships of mothers with diabetеs type 1 suffering children. The film tells of the uncertainty stress , the helplessness and the way the diagnosis is coped with – by accepting the chronic illness as part of life. At the same time the audience learns about the specific characteristics of diabetes and the modern practice of treatment and diagnostics, about the advantage of the pump theory and the mode of life for the young patients.
Bulgaria, 2015, 43 min., documentary
Author and script: Silvia Nikolova
Director: Hristo Stoychevв
Cinematographer: Evtim Hristov
Production: MU-Vi.tv
“Madonna’s Stake” is a documentary film about the self sacrifice of d-r Stefan Cherkesov, a young physician from the village of Vinogradq district Veliko Tarnovo. On August 15-th 1963 he is travelling fom the village of Streletz to Gorna Oriahovitza.The bus has an accident and burns in fire.D-r Cherkesov is slightly wounded but without hesitation he throws himself into the flaming hell and begins to save the burning people from the bus.
He saves tens of people, sacrificing himself. He dies the next day because of his burnings.
On the occasion of of d-r Stefan Cherkesov’s self sacrifice, in 2004, the Council of Ministers announced August 15-th as Salvation Day, a day when tribute is paid for the sacrifice of people died to save human lives.
“Holy Mother Pyre” is a reverence to the memory of d-r Stefan Cherkesov and all the people, that have made the most difficult choice, thus stepping in the immortality.
Bulgaria, 2015, 30 min., documentary
Director and script: Iva Martinova
Reporter: Daniela Ivanova
Cinematographer: Lazar Elenkov, Evtim Hristov
Editor: Anatolii Dobrev
Graphic Design and Animation: Anton Antonov
Production: MU-Vi.tv
Nobility, self-denial and generosity are fundamental virtues of Christianity, that is what we have been taught and what we teach our children. In our everyday life, do we consider what remains after we are gone? As life is not what we take or have, but also what we give and what we are. The film tells about the real problems of human organs donation in Bulgaria, as seen by the experts, by patients with transplantation and by patients expecting transplantation.
Bulgaria, 2015, 73 min., documentary
Director and script: Iva Martinova
Consultant: Proff.Plamen Panayotov
Cinematographer: Lazar Elenkov, Evtim Hristov
Editor: Tihomir Stoyanov, Anatolii Dobrev
Graphic Design and Animation: Anton Antonov
Production: Production: MU-Vi.tv
The film shows a real picture of the working process in the University hospital “Sveta Marina” cardio surgery in Varna. The film is produced for the 10-th Anniversary of the clinic. The main actors are the physicians and the medical staff and they explain about their work. The film shows the technical capacity of the clinic, how patients are treated, the specifity of the treatment. The film touches on the role of the patient’s personal motivation in the process of his treatment.
Bulgaria, 2015, 29 min., documentary
Author and Script: Daniela Ivanova
Consultant: Proff. Silva Andonova M.D.
Cinematographer: Lazar Elenkov, Evtim Hristov
Editor: Anatolii Dobrev
Graphic Design and Animation: Anton Antonov
Director: Hristo Stoychev
Production: Medical University - Varna
The brain and vessels diseases create medical and social problems globally, due to the high rate of mortality and invalidity they cause. Some of the participants in the film are people that have outlived insult. They tell their stories how they encountered the “stroke”, about the after-treatment, their fears, their life before and after.
Bulgaria, 2015, 10 min., documentary
Author: Nikolay Vasilev
Editor: Borislav Petrov
Cinematographer: Borislav Georgiev
Director: Nikolay Vasilev
Production: Bulgarian National Television
The story is about Vassil, who saved 4 people during the Debeletz flood. Their car was swept away by tidal wave and they nearly drowned. Then Vasko arrived with his equipment and saved the people one by one, with the only help of a handle and rope, while the fireman were simply helpless around.
Bulgaria, 2013, 10 min., documentary
Author: Nikolay Vasilev
Editor: Marieta Chukovska
Cinematographer: Borislav Georgiev
Director: Nikolay Vasilev
Production Bulgarian National Television
This is the story of Atanas, the paramedic, who runs with his bike 20 km. daily from Kazanluk to Buzovgrad and back, to do his job. He gets tired, but not because of the road, but because of the messes in the Bulgarian health care system. The paramedic is angry with the laws made by the bureaucrats, as they are not made in the interests of the population. While driving his bike he imagines, how these bureaucrats, forced to spend at least a day among the sick and growing old village population, start to understand the reality.
Bulgaria, 2014, 10 min., documentary
Author: Nikolay Vasilev
Editor: Marieta Chukovska
Cinematographer: Borislav Georgiev
Director: Nikolay Vasilev
Production: Bulgarian National Television
The story is about Tzetzka, who devoted herself to the cause of helping people with mental disorders. More than an year ago, she and her husband Grozdan Karadzov decided to buy a property and turn it into a day center for young people above 18, where 30 young people acquire working and communication skills. In a newly opened coffee they exercise their communication skills.
Bulgaria, 2015, 10 min., documentary
Author: Tanya Cheshmedzhieva
Editor: Boyan Boichev and Borislav Petrov
Cinematographer: Radostin Borisov
Director: Tanya Cheshmedzhieva
Production: Bulgarian National Television
Gancho Ganchev is the anonymous helper in the night of the flood in Asparuhovo, the gipsies called him “the white angel”. The anonymous man rushed to help the people, while tons of water were sweeping over the streets. The muddy flood swept Gancho away to 150 meters. He grasped a fence and succeeded to reach a roof of a house on Gorna Studena Street. At the same time two children, from another roof, started to shout for help. They asked him to save some of their family who could not reach the roof. Gancho, the saved women and the children spent on the roof for nearly one hour and a half.
Bulgaria, 2015, 10 min., documentary
Author: Nikolay Vasilev
Editor: Borislav Petrov
Cinematographer: Borislav Georgiev
Director: Nikolay Vasilev
Production: Bulgarian National Television
This is the story of Dessislav from Mizia, who works in the local funeral house and usually helps the deceased. During the great flood in his town something quite vice versa happened. Dessislav saved from the food waters 11 people, who are alive thanks to him.
Bulgaria, 15 min., documentary
Author: Ladislav Tsvetkov
Editor: Evgueni Savov
Producer: Gena Traykova
Production: BTV
Bulgaria, 15 min., documentary
Author: Teodora Trifonova
Editor: Vitali Varadinov
Cinematographer: Pavel Baev
Producer: Gena Traykova
Production: BTV
Bulgaria, 15 min., documentary
Author и Cinematographer: Maria Savkova
Editor: Iliyana Cheshmedzhieva
Producer: Gena Traykova
Production: BTV
Bulgaria, 15 min., documentary
Author: Maria Savkova
Editor: Iliyana Cheshmedzhieva
Cinematographer: Aleksandr Osichenko
Graphic Design: Assen Bakalov
Producer: Gena Traykova
Production: BTV
Bulgaria, 15 min., documentary
Author: Maria Vankova
Editor: Evgueni Savov
Cinematographer: Dobromir Ivanov
Producer: Gena Traykova
Production: BTV
Bulgaria, 15 min., documentary
Author: Marina Evguenieva
Editor: Tsvetan Tsenkov
Cinematographer: Ivan Filchev
Graphic Design: Assen Bakalov
Producer: Gena Traykova
Production: BTV Репортерите
Bulgaria, 16 min., documentary
Author: Teodora Trifonova
Editor: Vitali Varadinov
Cinematographer: Blagoy Momchilov, Teodora Trifonova
Producer: Vesselina Petrakieva
Production: BTV
Bulgaria, 27 min., documentary
Director: Stanislava Kalcheva
Cinematographer:Metodi Evstatiev
Script: Tatyana Kolarova
Producer: Anelia Dosheva
Production: EDITA GROUP
Bulgaria, 29 min., documentary
Director: Lyudmil Kolev
Cinematographer: Metodi Evstatiev
Scriptи: Tatyana Kolarova, Anelia Dosheva
Producer: Anelia Dosheva
Production: EDITA GROUP
Bulgaria, 30 min., documentary
Director: Lyudmil Kolev
Cinematographer: : Metodi Evstatiev
Scriptи: Tatyana Kolarova, Anelia Dosheva
Producer: Anelia Dosheva
Production: EDITA GROUP
Bulgaria, 2009, 20 min., documentary
Author: Neda Kirilova
Production: National Academy of Theatre and Film Art
Bulgaria, 2010, 1 min.
Author: Polina Vassileva
Production: National Academy of Theatre and Film Art
Bulgaria, 15 min., documentary
Directorи: Boris Nikolov, Zina Nacheva
Production: National Academy of Theatre and Film Art
Bulgaria, 10 min., documentary
Director: Aleksandra Boishina
Cinematographer: Zahari Tsonkov
Production: National Academy of Theatre and Film Art
Bulgaria, 9 min., documentary
Author: Petar Angelov
Director: Filip Dzhelepov
Production: National Academy of Theatre and Film Art
Bulgaria, 2013, 25 min., documentary
Director: Maya Vaptsatova
Script: Maya Vaptsatova
Parables – the legends of the white wine, the scar on the rock, the proof of the presence of the Holly Maid and the secrets of the magic water that is infiltrated in the life of the people from MineralBaths village – this is part of the mystery of this ancient land.
Bulgaria, 2013, 27 min., documentary
Director: Maya Vaptsatova
Script: Maya Vaptsatova
After the decline of the Western Roman Empery, the ancient city of Diocletian is part of Byzantine and turns into an intellectual center of Christianity. Ten of the early Christian basilicas have been built by that time. In 820 Plovdiv and the district are within the borders of the First Bulgarian state. Hissaria is in the borders of Medieval Bulgaria and together with its famous curing mineral waters it was known as an intellectual center too. The film illustrates the today’s image of the city, the archeological monuments ad remnants, the spa treatment, tourism, folklore, and cultural events.
Bulgaria, 2012, 27 min., documentary
Director и Script: Effemia Fard
Cinematographer: Vesselin Hristov
Producer: „Джи енд джи 55” ООД Йордан Йосифов
The film has been awarded the special prize at the II International Festival “The Slavonic Story” 2014; it is selected to 2013 “The Golden Riton” festival information stream with numerous BNT broadcastings.
Bulgaria, 4 min., documentary
Association of the medicine students in Bulgaria and National Alliance of people with rare diseases.
The initiative “Teddy Bears’ Hospital” helps the introduction of the children to the procedures of hospitalization. This is the way to avoid the stress of hospitalization; its very useful especially for the kids.
Bulgaria, 30 min., documentary
Director: Valentina Fidanova - Kolarova
Cinematographer:Ivan Uzunov
Script: Zlatimir Kolarov
Bulgaria, 2013, 30 min., documentary
Script и Director: Effemia Fard
Cinematographer: Vesselin Hristov
Bulgaria, 2010, 26 min., documentary
Director: Petar Bonin
Script: Nina Lokmadzhieva
Cinematographerи: Petar Bonin, Aleksandar Nikolov, Daniel Eftimov
Production: Snail Studio
Bulgaria, 2008, 27:17 min., documentary
Director: Mihail Venkov
Script: Rumyana Stanimirova
Cinematographer: Chavdar Krastev
Bulgaria, 2002, 49 min., documentary
Director: Lyudmil Kolevв
Cinematographerи: Emil Zhukov, Birislav Georgiev
Production: Bulgarian National Television 2
Bulgaria, 2013, 40 min., documentary
Author и Director: Tsvetana Marinova
Cinematographer: Martin Dimitrov
Producer: Vesselin Goranov
Consultant: Emanuil Naydenov M.D.
Bulgaria, 2012, 75 min., documentary
Director и Cinematographer: Iliyan Metev
In a city where 13 ambulances struggle to serve 2 million people, Krassi, 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 they keep fixing society's injured until they lose their empathy?
Bulgaria, 60 min., documentary
Director: Rossen Andonov
Script: Sheng Fey, Angel Georgiev
Bulgaria, 30 min., documentary
Director: Valentina Fidanova - Kolarova
Cinematographer: Ivan Uzunov
Script: Zlatimir Kolarov
Bulgaria, 2007., 92 min., documentary
Film by Milena Kaneva
Production: MK Production
Vaclaw Havel Special Award for Human Rights
Bulgaria, 2013, 30 min., documentary
Script: Valentina Fidanova – Kolarova, Zlatimir Kolarov
Director: Valentina Fidanova – Kolarova
Cinematographer: Martin Dimitrov
The film is a curious scientific - popular story of the true cost of human longevity, viewed through the prism of history of medicine and the art of three great artists - Goya, Klimt and Caravaggio.
Great Britain, 70 min., documentary
Script и Producer: Dolya Gavanski
Directorи: Dolya Gavanski Fedor Levchenko
Israel, 2012, 40 min., documentary
Script и Editor: Roy Zafrani
Production: Magic Production
On July 18th, at 17:23, at the parking of Burgas Airport, an attack was carried out agains three busses with Israeli tourists. The attack killed 5 Israeli tourists. Amir Menashe was among them.
Israel, 6 min., documentary
Israel, 2013, 14 min., documentary
Israel, 2010, 90 min., documentary
Director: Shlomi Eldar
Produced by Ehud Bleiberg and Yoav Ze’evi
Edited by Dror Reshef
Original score by Yehuda Poliker
Born with a rare immune deficiency, four-month-old Palestinian boy Mohammad Abu Mustaffa will die without a bone marrow transplant – a procedure that can only be done in an Israeli hospital. In the race to save a child, there are no borders.
Set against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, PRECIOUS LIFE is a powerful appeal for peace, exploring the challenges and prejudices that must be overcome when officials from conflicting nations attempt to work together for a noble cause.
Documentary PRECIOUS LIFE received the 2010 Ophir Award (the Israeli Academy Award®) for Best Documentary, an official selection of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2010 Telluride Film Festival.
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Norway, 2014, 53 min., documentary
Director: Eirind Tolas
Death is an entertaining and inspiring series on the one thing we know for sure: That there is an end. The presence of death in our lives is far larger than we often think, and it has a fascinating effect on how we lead our lives. This series will probe this often yielded subject with humour, curiosity, openness and respect.
Russia, 2012, 26 min., documentary
Script and director: Oleg Tatkov
Cinematographer: Ivan Nikolaev
Producer: Sergey Zernov
Russia, 2012, 26 min., documentary
Director:Mihail Pavlov
Producer: Ekaterina Ivanova
Producer: „Cinema and Theatre“
Russia, 2015, 26 min., documentary
Producer: Ekaterina Ivanova
Producer: „Cinema and Theatre“
USA, 2014, 85 min., documentary, biographic
Director: Chris Furbee
This is a film made by Kris Furby, whose mother suffered the same illness; the film traces 18 years of their life, till her death. The illness, causing uncontrolled movements of the body imitating dancing, as well as serious brain disruption, is genetically inheritable. The film shows the fear of young Furby from inheriting the disease.
Ukraine, 2012, 5 min., documentary
Ukraine, 2013, 16 min., documentary
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Albania, 2014, 106:51 min.
Director and script: ELEZI & Thomas Logoreci
Production ERAFILM Albania
Albania, present day. At the edge of a haunted swamp, Juli (Flonja Kodheli), Nora (Fioralba Kryemadhi) and Ben (Artur Gorishti) work together in an isolated village where their families were exiled during their country’s intense communist rule. Under the disapproving eyes of Juli, Ben juggles an affair with Nora while dreaming of expanding his cafe into the Balkan big time. Their quiet world ceases to exist when a highway crew begins to widen the road nearby. Juli falls for engineer Mili but worries about her ailing and confused grandmother, Noje. As the new road approaches, the village inhabitants have one last glorious night of fireworks and celebration. But when the dawn arrives, Juli, Ben and Nora must face a shared secret from their traumatic past. BOTA is written and directed by Iris Elezi and Thomas Logoreci and stars Flonja Kodheli, Fioralba Kryemadhi, Artur Gorishti and Tinka Kurti.
Bulgaria, 2015, 15:49 min.
Director и script: Aleksandar Yanev
Cinematographer: Gabriel Galchev - Gabbi
Editor:Raymond Georgiev - Dzhangomir
Producer: Angel Galchev
A lonely doctor from the deep bulgarian province treats his patients in unusual but efective way.
Bulgaria, 2010, 8:30 min., short
Director: Borisalv Kostov
Script: Vladimir Siriiski, Borislav Kostov
Cinematographer: Vladimir Siriiski
Editor: Simeon Simeonov
Producer: National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts
A young woman – Sophia – is visiting a clinic for a medical check. In the elevator of the clinic she meets an unknown couple. A boy and a girl. Sophia falls in love from first sight with the girl – Lidiya. Sophia is dreaming how the relations between the two girls could develop in the future. Leaving the elevator, Lidiya drops unintentionally the result of her medical test, which is ...
Bulgaria – Italy, 2015, 27 min., short
Director: Lyubo Yaonchev
Script: Lyubo Yaonchev, Yassen Genadiev
Cinematographer: Damyan Dimitrov
Editor: Lyubo Kirov
Producerи: Lyubo Yaonchev, Lyubo Kirov
Starring: Stefka Yanorova, Stefan Popov, Kalia Kamenova
How far would a mother go to protect her children?
Lilly (47) is a divorced mother of two – Martin, who has recently come of age, and the little Alexandra (5). One cold winter evening Martin takes Alexandra from kindergarten. In the dark streets of the neighborhood they become a part of a tragic accident that hardly can be forgotten or erased. Lilly and her kids have to make tough decisions, the consequences of which will change their life for good.
Poland, 2009, 96 min.
Director: John Kent Harrisson
Irena Sendler was one of the most remarkable – and most unlikely – heroes of World War II, saving 2500 Jewish children during the German occupation of Poland.
As a social worker, Irena had access to the Warsaw Ghetto, making it possible for her to rescue the daughter of a Jewish friend and safely hide the young girl with a Catholic family. Realizing that thousands of children were still in a danger, Irena recruited sympathetic friends and co-workers to smuggle children out and place them in safe homes, farms and convents. At great personal risk, she devised extraordinary schemes to sneak the children by Nazi guards, bringing them out in ambulances, suitcases and even wheelbarrows.
Irena was eventually captured by the Gestapo. Even after mounts of torture, she maintained her silence. Her heroic efforts were honoured by a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
Portugal, 2011, 90 min.
Directors: Joao Correa, Francisco Manso
Writers: Joao Correa, Joao Nunes
Stars: Vitor Norte, Carlos Paulo, Joao Monteiro
Production: TAKE 2000
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas for safe passage to Portugal during WWII, in June 1940, defying the direct orders of his government. Among them were 10,000 Jews.
Thailand, 3 min., short
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France-Brazil-Italy, 2014, 110 min., black & white, color
Director - Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders
Script - Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, David Rosier, Camille Delafon
Cinematographer - Hugo Barbier, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Music - Laurent Petitgand
With - Sebastiao Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado
Producer - David Rosier
Production - Decia Films
Awards and Nominations
Cannes ’14 – Un Certain Regard – Special Jury Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Special Mention and nomination for Un Certain Regard Award Oslo’14 – Nominated for Best Documentary Feature San Sebastian’14 – Audience Award
The documentary portrait of photographer Sebastiao Salgado, whose body of work reflects an undiminished hope in human civilisation, is grounded in his longstanding career as a photojournalist. For the last forty years, the photographer Sebastiao Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of our recent history; international conflicts, starvation and exodus. Salgado's heart-wrenching photos of human tragedies have been featured globally, but Salgado has also been blamed for exploiting the victims for his own gains. Sebastiao Salgado's life and work are revealed to us by his son, Juliano, who accompanied him during his last travels, and by Wim Wenders, himself a photographer and great lover of black and white photography.
„When you photograph poverty and suffering, you have to give a certain dignity to your subject, and avoid slipping into voyeurism. It's not easy. It can only be achieved on condition that you develop a good rapport with the people in front of the lens, and you really get inside their lives and their situation. Very few photographers manage this. /.../ I think that Sebastiao offered real dignity to all those people who found themselves in front of his lens. His photographs aren't about him, but about all those people!"
Wim Wenders
Sweden-Germany-Norway-France, 2014, 101 min., color
Director - Roy Andersson
Script - Roy Andersson
Camera - Istvan Borbas, Gergely Palos
Cast - Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom, Charlotta Larsson, Viktor Gyllenberg, Lotti Tornros
Producer - Pernilla Sandstrom
Production - Roy Andersson Filmproduktion AB
World Sales - Coproduction Office
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
Venice ’14 – Golden Lion
The most distinctive Swedish filmmaker since Ingmar Bergman, Roy Andersson (Songs from the Second Floor) returns with this absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
A mixture of absurdist, hilariously deadpan humour, shock, and utter horror. A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence presents a series of darkly comic vignettes organized around two narrative strands. In one, two hapless novelty salesmen wander around town trying to sell their inventory of vampire fangs and rubber masks, all the while bickering like an old married couple; in the other, Charles XII, Sweden's most bellicose king, reappears in modern times to carry on his series of disastrous defeats. Shifting between nightmare, fantasy, reverie, and even an impromptu musical number, the film culminates with a blistering indictment of what Andersson presents as humanity's stunning lack of empathy.
Though he's been called a slapstick Bergman and compared to Fellini, Andersson is closest to Luis Bunuel in both his surrealist flourishes and the rage — as well as the genuine empathy and sorrow — that underlies his twisted humour. Andersson has said that A Pigeon... was heavily influenced by Dostoevsky and, like the work of the Russian master, his film is not for the faint of heart. It is an extremely provocative and very disturbing critique of our times.
Steve Gravestock, Toronto IFF
Ukraine-Netherlands, 2014, 130 min., color
Director - Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Script - Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy
Cinematographer - Valentyn Vasyanovych
Music - Sergiy Stepanskiy
Cast - Grigoriy Fesenko, Yana Novikova, Rosa Babiy, Alexander Dsiadevich, Yaroslav Biletskiy, Ivan Tishko, Alexander Osadchiy, Alexander Sidelnikov, Sasha Rusakov, Denis Gruba, Dania Bykobiy,
Lenia Pisanenko
Producers - Valentyn Vasyanovych, Iya Myslytska
Production - Garmata film production
World Sales - Alpha Violet
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
Cannes ’14 – Critics Grand Prix, Golden camera nomination (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy), European film awards ’14 – European discovery of the year(Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy), IFF Manaki ’14 – Best Cinematography (Valentyn Vasyanovych), Sao Paulo ’14 – Best Script Award, Solun ’14 – Best Director Award
Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several robberies, he gets propelled higher into the organization. Then he meets one of the Chief’s concubines Anna, and unwillingly breaks all the unwritten rules of the tribe.
Germany-France-Italy-Russia-Canada-Poland-Turkey, 2014, 138 min., color
Director - Fatih Akin
Script - Fatih Akin
Cinematographer - Rainer Klausmann
Music - Alexander Hacke
Cast - Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram J. Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Kevork Malikyan, Moritz Bleibtreu
Producers - Fatih Akin, Karl Baumgartner, Reinhard Brundig, Fabienne Vonier
Production - Bombero International Corazon International International Traders Jordan Films Pandora Filmproduktion
World Sales - Match Factory
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
Hamburg ’14 – Nominated for „Art Cinema Award”, Venice Film Festival ’14 – Vittorio Veneto Film Festival Award – Special Mention and nomination for Golden Lion
Mardin, 1915: one night, the Turkish police rounds up all the Armenian men in the city, including the young blacksmith, Nazaret Manoogian, who is separated from his family. Years later, after managing to survive the horrors of the genocide, he hears that his two daughters are also still alive. He becomes fixated on the idea of finding them and sets off to track them down. His search takes him from the Mesopotamian deserts and Havana to the barren and desolate prairies of North Dakota. On this odyssey, he encounters a range of very different people: angelic and kind-hearted characters, but also the devil incarnate.
„The Cut is an epic film, a drama, an adventure movie and a western all rolled into one. The film may be set a hundred years ago, but it could not be more topical: it tells a tale of war and displacement, as well as portraying the power of love and hope, which enables us to achieve the unimaginable. The Cut is the conclusion of the Love, Death and the Devil trilogy. It explores the theme of „the devil”, examining evil and the harm we are capable of inflicting on others – both unwittingly and deliberately – showing the fine line that often separates good from evil. The Cut has become a very personal film. Thematically, it explores my conscience and formally it expresses my passion for the medium of film.”
Fatih Akin
„The Cut is a true epic in the tradition to which today no one daring to approach. Fatih Akin's very personal response to a tragic chapter in world history is of great intensity, beauty and impressive grandeur. This movie is very valuable to me in many ways.”
Martin Scorsese
Hungary-Germany-Sweden, 2014, 119 min., color
Director - Kornel Mundruczo
Script - Kornel Mundruczo, Viktoria Petranyi, Kata Weber
Cinematographer - Marcell Rev
Music - Asher Goldschmidt
Cast - Zsofia Psotta, Sandor Zsoter, Szabolcs Thuroczy, Lili Monori, Laszlo Galffi, Lili Horvath
Producers - Eszter Gyarfas, Viktoria Petranyi
Production - Proton Cinema, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, Filmpartners, The Chimney Pot, Hungarian National Film Fund, ZDF/Arte
World Sales - The Match Factory
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
Cannes ’14 – Un Certain Regard Award and Palm Dog Ghent ’14 – Nomination for Grand Prix Hamburg ’14 – Nomination for Art Cinema Award
Favoring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. 13-year-old Lili fights desperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually sets the dog free on the streets. Hagen and his pretty master search desperately for each other until Lili loses faith. Struggling to survive, homeless Hagen realizes that not everyone is a dog’s best friend. Hagen joins a gang of stray dogs, but is soon captured and sent to the pound. With little hope inside there, the dogs will seize an opportunity to escape and revolt against mankind. Their revenge will be merciless. Lili may be the only one who can halt this unexpected war between man and dog.
„This film interweaves melodrama with the characteristics of adventure and vengeance movies. My intention was to demonstrate that mankind and beasts share the same universe. Only if we are able to position ourselves in the place of different species do we have the chance to lay down our arms.”
Kornel Mundruczo
Belgium-France-Italy, 2014, 95 min., color
Directors - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Script - Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Cinematographer - Alain Marcoen
Cast - Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione, Catherine Salee, Batiste Sornin
Producers - Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Denis Freyd
Production - Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, BIM Distribuzione, Eyeworks, France 2 Cinema, Radio Television Belge Francophone (RTBF), Belgacom
World Sales - Wild Bunch
Bulgarian Distributor - Bulgaria Film Vision
Awards and Nominations
Cannes ’14 – Nomination for Palme d'Or Chicago ’14 – Nomination for Audience Choice Award European Film Awards ’14 – Nomination for Audience Award, Best Actress (Marion Cotillard) and Screenwriter Hawaii ’14 – Nomination for Best Film International Cinephile Society Awards’14 – Grand Prix Munich ’14 – Nomination for ARRI/OSRAM Award fo Best International Film Sydney’14 – Best Film Valladolid’14 – Nomination for Golden Spike for Best Film ПРОДУКЦИЯ PRODUCTION Les Films du Fleuve, Archipel 35, BIM Distribuzione, Eyeworks, France 2 Cinema, Radio Television Belge Francophone (RTBF), Belgacom
Marion Cotillard gives what may be her rawest, most powerful performance to date in this typically charged social-realist drama from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne (L’enfant). Sandra has just the weekend to save her job. The boss at the small plant where she works has given his employees the choice: either they cut someone from the line or there will be no bonuses this year. Having only recently returned from sick leave, Sandra is the one facing the chop. Her union rep is fighting a rearguard action on her behalf and has persuaded the foreman to allow a second vote on Monday morning, but Sandra will have to win over at least a half-dozen of her colleagues to earn a reprieve. It’s hard enough to ask someone to give up a significant amount of cash on your behalf, let alone in these times of austerity – and Sandra’s fragile mental state makes this uphill battle even steeper.
The Dardennes have a knack for wringing maximum resonance and impact from naturalistic stories. If Two Days, One Night initially seems more contrived, we’re soon immersed in Sandra’s plight and the unwelcome predicament she poses to her workmates. It’s like 12 Angry Men taken out of the courtroom and played out on doorsteps, in kitchens and living rooms. Along the way, this riveting drama raises all too relevant questions about solidarity, sacrifice and self-worth.
Vancouver IFF
Russia, 2014, 140 min., color
Director - Andrey Zvyagintsev
Script - Oleg Negin, Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cinematographer - Mikhail Krichman
Music - Philip Glass
Cast - Alexey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Anna Ukolova, Roman Madyanov, Alexey Rozin, Sergey Pokhadaev
Producers - Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov
Production - Non-Stop Production
Awards and Nominations
Academy Awards USA ’15 – Best Foreign Language Film nomination Golden Globes ’15 – Best Foreign Language Film Cannes ’14 – Best Screenplay and nomination for „Palme d'Or” Munich ’14 – Best International Film Seville ’14 – Best Cinematography Sao Paulo ’14 – Best Film Asia Pacific Screen Awards ’14 – Nominated for Achievement in Directing, Best Film, Achievement in Cinematography European Film Awards’14 – Nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Actor (Aleksey Serebryakov)
On the outskirts of a small coastal town in the Barents Sea, where whales sometimes come to its bay, lives an ordinary family: Nikolai (Aleksey Serebryakov), his wife Lilya (Elena Lyadova) and their teenage son Romka. The family is haunted by a local corrupted mayor (Roman Madyanov), who is trying to take away the land, a house and a small auto repair shop from Nikolai. To save their homes Nikolai calls his old Army friend in Moscow (Vladimir Vdovichenkov), who has now become an authoritative attorney. Together they decide to fight back and collect dirt on the mayor.
„With the film's magisterial opening — the coastal landscape of the Barents Sea, set to the clarion call of Philip Glass's symphonic score — Zvyagintsev sets the stage for a story in which human intrigues are indistinguishable from forces of nature. Zvyagintsev has already been called a successor to Tarkovsky; with Leviathan he forges ahead and stakes out a cinematic territory of his own, analyzing the human (and, implicitly, Russian) spirit with an immediacy and urgency that will bear repeated viewings for decades to come.”
Dimitri Eipides, Toronto IFF
France-Germany, 2011, 96 min., feature , color
Director - Stephane Robelin
Script - Stephane Robelin
Cinematographer - Dominique Colin
Cast - Guy Bedos, Daniel Bruhl, Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Fonda, Claude Rich, Pierre Richard
Producers - Christophe Bruncher, Peter Rommel, Philippe Gompel, Aurelia Grossmann
Production - Les Films de la Butte, Rommel Film, Manny Films, Studio 37
World Sales - The Match Factory
Five close friends, five different characters: Claude, who has always loved women; Annie and Jean, the unlikely couple, he a political activist, she bourgeois and conventional; and Jeanne and Albert, the feminist and the bon vivant. Five longtime friends, five different problems with growing old: Claude’s heart has now grown far weaker than his flaming passion; Jean is denied his humanitarian commitment – he’s too high an age-risk for the insurance company! – Annie wants to win back her grandchildren with an expensive garden pool; Jeanne conceals a serious illness and Albert doesn’t notice that his memory is playing tricks on him. The solution: a shared house. The five decide to move in together: because Claude’s son has already picked out a room for him in a retirement home; because Albert’s daughter has given his dog up to the shelter without asking him; because no one of the five friends is ready to give up any independence – at least not yet. To make their communal life a little easier, Jeanne hires the young student Dirk who moves in with them in Annie and Jean’s home...
Germany, 2014, 98 min., color
Director - Christian Petzold
Script - Christian Petzold, based on a novel by Hubert Monteilhet
Cinematographer - Hans Fromm
Music - Stefan Will
Cast - Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf, Imogen Kogge
Producers - Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Production - Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Arte
World Sales - The Match Factory
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
San Sebastian ’14 – FIPRESCI Prize and nomination for Golden Seashell for Best Film
The leading light of new German cinema, Christian Petzold has developed a reputation for spare, visually arresting filmmaking and stories that ripple with paranoia and restless unease.
Concentration camp survivor Nelly Lenz undergoes reconstructive facial surgery after injuries have left her severely disfigured. Gradually returning to daily life in post-WWII Berlin, she ignores the cautionary overtures of her activist friend and embarks on a search for Johnny, the husband who may have betrayed her to the Nazis. Hidden behind a face that is not her own and desperately seeking to find her old love and recover their way of life, Nelly keeps her identity secret when Johnny fails to recognise her, allowing him to inveigle her into a scheme with disturbing implications.
Phoenix features a haunting performance from lead actress and Petzold muse, Nina Hoss, playing a woman struggling to preserve her dignity in hostile circumstances and unable to reconcile her feelings of love with her sense of justice. Backtracking from the lingering mistrust of cold-war East Germany (the setting of their last collaboration, the widely acclaimed Barbara) to the ravaged environs of post-war Germany, Petzold and Hoss have created another profoundly moving film about the lasting impact of betrayal and denial.
Estonia-Georgia, 2013, 87 min., color
Director - Zaza Urushadze
Script - Zaza Urushadze
Cinematographer - Rein Kotov
Music - Niaz Diasamidze
Cast - Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nuganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi, Raivo Trass
Producer - Ivo Felt
Production - Allfilm, Georgian Film
World Sales - Cinemavault
Bulgarian Distributor - Bulgaria Film Vision
Awards and Nominations
Academy Awards ’15 – Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year Golden Globes ’15 – Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film Bari ’14 – International Competition Award Jerusalem ’14 – In Spirit of Freedom Award – Honorable Mention Mannheim-Heidelberg ’13 – Audience Award, Recommendations of Cinema Owners, Special Award of Mannheim-Heidelberg Satellite Awards ’14 – Best Motion Picture, International Film Tallinn’13 – Estonian Film Award, International Film Clubs Award; Nomination for Grand Prize Warsaw ’13 – Audience Award, Best Director; Nomination for Gran Prix
The story is set in a town in Abkhazia (Georgia) during the war of 1992-1993, for whichmany Estonians flee their homes. Two men, however - Ivo and Margus remain in town torob ripe tangerines. While picking fruits come under crossfire between two rival armed groups. Two soldiers survived. Ahmed, who is Chechen mercenary to Abkhazian side,and Nico, who is Georgian ...
Poland, 2015, 90 min., color
Director - Malgorzata Szumowska
Script - Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Cinematographer - Michal Englert
Cast - Janusz Gajos, Maja Ostaszewska, Justyna Suwala, Ewa Dalkowska, Malgorzata Hajewska
Producers - Jacek Drosio, Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
World Sales - Memento Films International
Contact - Bulgaria Film Vision
Awards and Nominations
Berlin ’15 – Silver Bear for Best Director (ex aequo); nomination for Golden Bear
Janusz is not a man to be easily shocked. As coroner he undertakes precise research, analysing the crime scene in minute detail. Despite the extreme situations he comes up against, he works hard. Perhaps too hard. Yet when faced with his anorexic daughter Olga, still grieving for her dead mother, he feels helpless. Fearing that she might kill herself, he commits her to a clinic where Anna, a psychologist, carries out her duties. Years before, Anna lost her baby to cot-death and now sequesters herself and her big dog in a heavily barricaded flat and conjures up spirits who communicate with the living from beyond the grave...
Malgorzata Szumowska works with elements of black comedy to tell of the difficulties people encounter when struggling to cope with the loss of loved ones. The film explores the fear of and yet longing for intimacy, self-harm due to mental anguish and escaping into the esoteric. A complex meditation on the loneliness of the heart and the conflict between the rational and belief in a supernatural universe.
Berlinale FF
Bulgaria-Germany-Hungary-Slovenia, 2008, 105 min., feature , color
Director - Stefan Komandarev
Script - Stefan Komandarev, Iliya Trojanow, Dusan Milic and Yury Dachev
Cinematographer - Emil Christov
Music - Stefan Valdobrev
Cast - Miki Manojlovic, Karlo Ljubek, Hristo Mutafchiev, Ana Papadopulu
Producers - Karl Baumgartner, Danijel Hocevar, Thanassis Karathanos, Stefan Kitanov, Andras Muhi
Production - RFF International, Pallas Film, Vertigo, Emotionfilm & Inforg Studio
World Sales - M-Appeal
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
Sofia IFF - Audience Award, Best Bulgarian Feature Film Award; Zurich IFF - Audience Award; “Golden Rose” FF (Varna, Bulgaria) - Best Script Award, Best Cinematographer Award (shared); Warsaw IFF - Special Jury Award; Bergen IFF – main Jury Award „Cinema Extraordinaire”; Tallinn IFF „Black Nights” – Jury Special Mention, Don Quijote Award; “The Film and the City” FF (Nova Zagora, Bulgaria) - Best Film; Vilnius IFF - Grand Prix for Best Film, Special Jury Award for Acting to Miki Manojlovic; Almaty IFF – Best Actor Award for Miki Manojlovic; Taipe IFF – Audience Award; Sevastopol IFF – Best Actor Award for Miki Manojlovic; Durres IFF – Best Director; Festroia IFF Setubal – Best Director, SIGNIS Award, Audience Award; Benalmadena IFF – Best Film, Young Jury Award; Saturno IFF Alatri – Best Film, Best Actor Award for Miki Manojlovic; Noa’s Arc IFF Moscow – Best Script; European Film Festival Eritrea – Audience Award; Palm Springs IFF – Runner Up for the Audience Award; LUX Prix of the European Parliament - Official Selection; Foreign Language Oscar - Shortlist
Bulgaria, 1980. Clouds are gathering over Alex's serene childhood in the idyllic Socialist society of a provincial town. His father, Vasko, gets himself into trouble with the regime. The militia want him to spy on Alex's grandfather, Bai Dan. He is the undisputed King of the dice, and in the cafe frequented by backgammon players he publicly tells biting political jokes. Vasko refuses to work for the militia. He, his wife Yana, and the young Alex emigrate to Germany. However, the family breaks up there.
Germany, 2006. Alex and his parents, now older, are together again for the first time, on their way to Bulgaria. But there is an accident on the road: Yana and Vasko are dead, Alex ends up in hospital. Bai Dan goes off to Germany. Alex does not recognise his grandfather because he now suffers from amnesia as a result of the accident. The medical team rate his chances of getting better as minimal. Bai Dan teaches his grandson backgammon. The ancient game restores Alex back to life. Bai Dan drags Alex out of hospital and they set off on the road. On this journey back to Bulgaria, which is also a journey back to the past, Alex gets his memory back, and with it, the will to live life.
Italy-Switzerland-Germany, 2014, 100 min., color
Director - Alice Rohrwacher
Script - Alice Rohrwacher
Cinematographer - Helene Louvart
Music - Piero Crucitti
Cast - Alba Rohrwacher, Maria Alexandra Lungu, Sam Louwyck, Sabine Timoteo, Monica Bellucci
Producer - Carlo Cresto-Dina
Production - Tempesta, Amka Films Productions, Rai Cinema
World Sales - The Match Factory
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
Cannes ’14 – Grand Prize of the Jury and nomination for Palme d'Or International Cinephile Society Awards ’14 – Prix du Jury Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists ’14 – Guglielmo Biraghi Award – Special Mention and nominations for Silver Ribbon for Best Director, Producer, Screenplay and Editing Seville ’14 – Special Jury Award and Best Actress (Maria Alexandra Lungu)
Gelsomina lives with her parents and three younger sisters on a remote farm somewhere in Umbria. Her father keeps the family far from the wiles of the modern world, subscribing to a return to nature as the only safe path. A vegetable patch and, primarily, beekeeping for honey as a source of income keep the adults and children a close-knit group – that is until their strong bonds begin to erode with the arrival of Martin, a juvenile delinquent they take on as part of a reeducation program. He represents interference from the outside, as does the shooting of the TV show contest „Countryside Wonders,” which has the whole region all abuzz. The idealistic and rather despotic father’s confidence is shaken by the realization that his beloved eldest daughter may take a different path than the one he has chosen for himself and those closest to him.
„The Wonders is the second film from Alice Rohrwacher (Corpo Celeste), a personal, intimate riffing on her own childhood, celebrating the wonderful strangeness of families – equally capable of love and destructiveness, happiness and despair, often all at the same time.”
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
China, 2014, 106 min, color
Director - Diao Yi\'nan
Script - Diao Yi'nan
Cinematographer - Dong Jingsong
Music - Wen Zi
Cast - Liao Fan, Gwei Lun Mei, Wang Xuebing, Wang Jingchun, Yu Ailei
Producer - Vivian Qu
Production - Omnijoi Media, Boneyard Entertainment China, China Film Co.
World Sales - Fortissimo Films
Bulgarian Distributor - Bulgaria Film Vision
Awards and Nominations
Asia Pacific ’14 – Nominated for Achievement in Cinematography and Best Performance by an Actor (Liao Fan) Beijing Student FF ’14 – Jury Award for Best Director and nomination for Best Film, Best Actor (Liao Fan), Best Actress (Gwei Lun Mei) Berlin ’14 – Golden Berlin Bear, Silver Berlin Bear and Best Actor Golden Horse FF ’14 – Nominated for Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Liao Fan), Best Actress (Gwei Lun Mei), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction and Best Film Editing Sydney ’14 – Nominated for Best Film
After a botched arrest in a grisly serial murder case, small-town detective Zhang Zili is suspended from the force, taking a job as a security guard at a coal factory. Five years later, another series of mysteriously similar murders takes place, and Zhang recruits his former partner to finish their investigation. His sleuthing soon leads to a local laundromat proprietor named Wu Zhizhen, whose soft-spoken demeanor and enigmatic aura are compelling to Zhang despite her mysterious connection to the deaths.
„Part film noir, part social realist portrait of industrial city life in Northern China, Diao Yinan’s atmospheric Black Coal, Thin Ice is a moody, quietly powerful thriller staged against the quotidian lives of a wintry industrial landscape, and winner of the top prize at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.”
Cara Cusumano, Tribeca
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Serbia, 2014, 99 min., drama, color
Director - Dušan Milić
Script - Dusan Milic
Cinematographer - Petar Popovic
Music - Aleksandar Randjelovic
Cast - Nikola Rakocevic, Boris Isakovic, Khetanya Henderson, Adrian Elizondo, Michael Joiner, Jack Dimich
Producers - Dusan Milic, Goran Susljik
Production - Film Deluxe International, Eye To Eye, Parthenon Films
Awards and Nominations
Montréal ’14 – Innovation Award; nomination for Grand Prix des Amériques Warsaw ’14 – Nomination for Free Spirit Award
Slav, 18, eager first person shooter gamer, is hired as the best among his friends, to be a real-life killer for the Serbian mob. A war refugee, born in Slovenia, thus in rare position not needing valuable American visa, he accepts the latest assignment trip to Las Vegas to gun down a criminal insider under Serbian state witness protection program. Slav enters the neon city's high style living, spots and tails the target and his two official bodyguards, eyeing their habits and behavior. The closer he is, the deeper he penetrates into the corruption and arrogance of the criminal classes of the Serbian society. Slav fathoms the deeds the villain did in past as a cruel warlord. Today he is even protected by his fatherland to indict and expose important political opponents, getting freedom and money in return. And Slav never had either of them. Anger overwhelms him as he realizes he himself is a product of such war atrocities and social circumstances, a part of the human debris on the very bottom, even maybe 'the son' of the rapists. Now the time has come for the 'father' who must be killed!
Serbia - Bulgaria - Austria - Germany, 2006, 94 min., color
Director - Dušan Milić
Script - Dusan Milic
Cinematographer - Petar Popovic
Music - Dejan Pejovic
Cast - Alexandra Manasijevic , Marko Markovic , Mladen Nelevic
Production - Karl Baumgartner , Thanassis Karathanos , Goran Radakovic , Aleksandra Milic, Josef Aichholzer , Stefan Kitanov , Emir Kusturica
Production - Pallas Film, Film Deluxe International, Dakar, Aichholzer Filmproduktion, Art Fest
World Sales - The Match Factory
Bulgarian Distributor - Art Fest
Awards and Nominations
European Film Awards ’07 – Nomination for Best Composer (Dejan Pejovic) Sofia IFF ’07 – Audience Award
Juliet, a white girl, falls in love with a dark-skinned Romeo, a divine trumpet player from the Roma orchestra. Her father Satchmo, a leader of the rival white band is disgusted with Romeo’s skin color. At the upcoming Festival of trumpeters Romeo must prove to him that, due to his talent, he is the right man for his daughter. Satchmo’s willing to overcome his belief and give up his daughter to the Roma only if Romeo proves to be better than him. Things complicate when Romeo’s half-brother Rocky corrupts the band members to back him up in front of his father as a leading trumpeter. After a restless night Sandokhan finally decides that Rocky goes to the competition. Romeo takes the only possible step in order to reach his goal: he physically disables Rocky to play at the closing celebration. Sachmo’s fascinated by Romeo’s musical talent as his trumpet sounds miraculous. It’s a shriek of Romeo’s soul for forbidden love. Juliet, to whom the music is dedicated, fights to break free from her locked bedroom to arrive on time at the Festival of the trumpeters, to hear her beloved Romeo’s musical triumph...
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The International Animation Film Festival (IAFF) Golden Kuker- Sofia was run for the first time in October 2010 in Sofia. Named after Proyko Proykov (legendary Bulgarian animator) it is the first animation festival from the new century. One of the most attractive events in the arts calendar of Bulgaria takes place every spring in May. It is organised by the Bulgarian Association of The Independent Artists and Cartoon Animators an NGO chaired by Mrs. Nadezhda Slavova (cartoon artist, director, filmmaker and author of numerous animation films). The Association aims to connect animators, support their networking and create long lasting relationships within the cartoon industry.
3rd GOLDEN KUKER - 2012
4th GOLDEN KUKER – 2013
5th GOLDEN KUKER - 2014
6th GOLDEN KUKER – 2015
France, 2012, 75 min., animation
director: Jung, Laurent Boileau
technique: drawings, 2D
European on the heads side, Asian on the tails side. Cartoonist. 42 years old according to his civil status, Jung prefers to place his birth at the age of 5, when a policeman found him wandering alone on the streets of Seoul. He is one of those 200 000 adopted Koreans spread around the world.
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Russia, Belarus, 2010, 131 min.
Producer: Igor Ugolnikov
Director: Aleksandar Kott
The film describes with documentary precision the events that happened during the first days of the Brest Fortress defence; the legendary fortress, that faced the initial strike of the German invaders on June 22-nd 1941.
Russia, «Media Favorite Film», 2012, 115 min.
Director: Vlad Furman
In 1941, the decision to take the vodka allowance for the Red Army, fighting at the front. The first "narkomovskie hundred grams" ordered to deliver baggage to one of the divisions. Along with the road foreman Filippov sent only four soldiers. But the road is not as easy as it seems.
Russia, 20 min., short
Script and director: Ilya Kazankov
Cinematographer: Olga Marchenko
Editing: Olga Shevchenko
Russia, 2014, 30 min., short
Non-commercial cinematography support fund “Primer intonatzii”
(Alexaner Sokourov Fund)
Script and director – Igor Olshanskii
The story of a boy, living in a remote village in the Russian province of Pskov in 1921. Forgetting of the starving and misery after the Civil War, the boy dreams of having paints to paint eggs for Easter.
Russia, «Anna News», Ukraine, Slavyansk, 97 min., documentary
Director and cinematographer: Dmitrii Bukov
Producer: Konstantin Knurik, Informational Centre «South-East Front»
The author of the film is a volunteer at the “South-East Front” information centre and ANNA_NEWS correspondent, who makes a film for the shootings in Slaviansk from May till July. There is no feachure film to be compared to the autentic pictures of the horror and the enormous human tragedy in Donbas.
Russia, 2011, 42 min., documentary
Director: Boris Liznev
In February 1903, in the Winter Palace, a remarkable masquerade ball is organized, to allow the Russial elite show costumes from Tzar Alexei Michailovitch epoch. The film is a peculiar cinemetaphor for the historic course of Romanovs' dynasty.
Producer: Sanatorium and Health Complex “Kamchia", 2015 г., 10 min.
Script”: Galya Yaneva
Cinematographer and editor: Daniel Eftimov
A story of the anti-fascist movement in Bulgaria (1941-1945) and about the patriotic education in SHC «Kamchia», devoted to the Victory 70-th anniversary.
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IN MEMORIAM OF DJOKO ROSIC
Italy, 2007, 120 min., colour
Script: Beppe Cino
Director: Beppe Cino
Cinematography: Alessandro Ojetti
Music: Fabrizio Siciliano
Cast: Olivia Magnani, Dario Costa, Djoco Rosic
The summer of 1951. The young teacher Angelf Ammato has fallen in unrequited love in the most beautiful and mysterious girl in the neighbourhood – Maria Venera. Fifty years later the teacher, already aged, finds his story in a film. The love and the old friends are gone, the time has smashed and ruined all the beautiful things.
Bulgaria, 2013, 40 min., documentary
Scrip: Liza Boeva
Director: Liza Boeva
Cast: Itzhak Fintzi
The film reveals how and why the painting of Mona Lisa has been pronounced to be one of the best masterpieces in the world.
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