The history ot Romanian Red Cross.

A tribute to Lucas Bistarakis, father of Hellenic lifesaving.

It is focuced on raising awareness on poverty among children, specifically the fact that there are many children who do not have access to school meals, an essential prerequisite for health and well-being. 

Production: Swiss Red Cross

The Swiss Red Cross Program in Togo.

The Swiss Red Cross Program in Togo.

The Swiss Red Cross Program in Togo.

We usually talk about them when there is an accident and we need their help. These are mountain rescuers - dog guides. What people are they, how they cohabit with their dogs, what motivates them to be dedicated, how train guide and dog to become a team? You will find the answers in "Me, You and Friends" - a film story about dedication, love and the mission to help the needy.

Production of: Turkish Red Crescent

Production of: Turkish Red Crescent

Production of: Turkish Red Crescent

Production: Mexican Red Cross

Production: Mexican Red Cross

Production: Bulgarian Red Cross

We love our cellphones. But we never think they will kill us. This short film explores the grim consequences of what we swear will never happen to us.

The wind has no boundaries, dreams have no limits. The flight of a dandelion from the heart of Africa to our coasts symbolizes future hope for millions of people in a globalized world.

A Shortfilm about my trip with «Age of Hope» (NGO) to the Hungarian city of Zakany in October 2015.

Short video made for the French Red Cross in Saine Saint Denis

Short video made for the French Red Cross in Saine Saint Denis

An animation project done in the 2nd year of undergrad program.

One day, 20 Syrian, Iraqi and Turkmen refugee women come together with their Turkish neighbors in Turkey, in order to cook together and eat what they cooked on the same table...

Production of: Turkish Red Crescent

Production of: Turkish Red Crescent

Production of: Turkish Red Crescent

2th International Festival in 1967 in Varna - Won the Special Prize of the League

11th International Festival in 1985 in Varna - Won the Golden Ship Grand Prix for the best Red Cross film. A Message from Aaland - A Souvenir of the 2nd World Red Cross and Red Crescent Conference on Peace, 1984.

6th International Festival in 1975 in Varna - Won Gold Medal for Red Cross films

8th International Festival in 1979 in Varna - Won the Cidalc “Leonide Moguy” Prize’s Diploma of Merit

7th International Festival in 1977 in Varna A series of four first aid training films Won Silver Medal for Red Cross films

7th International Festival in 1977 in Varna A series of four first aid training films Won Silver Medal for Red Cross films

7th International Festival in 1977 in Varna A series of four first aid training films Won Silver Medal for Red Cross films

7th International Festival in 1977 in Varna A series of four first aid training films Won Silver Medal for Red Cross films

Existence narrates the story of a writer who seeks asylum in Germany to flee the war in his own country but he gradually becomes captive economically …

A feature film in gender of political/social subject relevant to events behind year 1388 election.

1968. Burnt books. Ruined lives. Humiliations that cannot be forgiven. Traumas that cannot be forgotten. Small “rebellions” and small “betrayals”. A puzzle of many so human fates in which the small word “no” turns into a large “yes”…

Moussa, a musician, dreams to be the Michael Jackson of Algiers. With his talent and energy as background. He carries around his mad dream by playing with his small group of musicians first in wedding parties then in night club The new star of Algiers in him, but he is going to collide with the absolute shaggy of an Islam.

A grandmother, her daughter, and granddaughter. Three women, three generations, constituting a small family. Their lives have closely intertwined as love and hatred and are difficult and lonely, each because of its own personal circumstances. A usual trip to visit the grandmother living in a small, God-forsaken and almost abandoned by its residents village of Pryputnі suddenly becomes for them crucial. Only one day filled to the brim with strange and almost tragic events: that very day when you live anew your entire live and see it with new eyes, which makes you finally get moving forward and break out of the vicious circle of habits, responsibilities, old views and daily routine towards another, unknown yet, but quite different and new life.

The spring of 1913. The Balkan War. A Turkish battleship terrorizes the Bulgarian army with its long-range guns. Despite the controversy between them, a group of desperate warriors decide to carry a boat to the coast. They want to turn the boat into a human torpedo and cause the battleship sink. On their way they collide with some Turkish soldiers and instead of enemies they become their allies. Sometimes the contradictions between the Bulgarians may prove to be stronger than the hatred to the enemies.

Four best friends are passionate about street football. For them it’s life, and the pitch is their second home, where only friends play. Once their team confronts in the pitch with an alien team led by a professional soccer player. They don’t want to share their pitch and organize a tough uncompromising tournament, in which all neighbors are gradually drawn in. Somehow from a game it turns to a war!

An Arab refugee will have to overcome the prejudices of a European family to achieve repair his car and get to his destination.

Candela is 26 years old. She psychologically abused her mother, though not aware of it. Candela lives in an apparently eternal adolescence, oblivious to the difficulties her mother goes to bring some food, pay the electricity bill or home mortgage.

Alain visits his grandson Simon who attempted suicide for the first time. Feeling lost faced with this action, Alain tries to unsettle Simon through mockery. But the lecture he had in mind doesn't go as planned...

“Damonia” tells the story of a demented woman who adheres between two worlds. Pending between the bitter reality and her dreams, she always keeps searching for her bliss.

The Woman and the Child grope their way through the insular rooms. Half-dead husband and a couple of healthy men. This is the story of a crime where a child is both the eyewitness and the judge.

Lurna is a young African woman who dreams about having a better life. One day she sets off with the hope and expectation of fulfilling her dream. What Lurna doesn't know is that she will soon wish to go back

After escaping the war in their home country where the circumstances still are life-threatening, Sabah and a part of her family ends up at the hospital in Sweden. Her mother is sick and her little brother confused. And as if that wasn’t enough, Sabah is informed that their application for asylum in Sweden has been rejected. Slowly her entire world comes crashing down and the time is running out. The police will soon escort Sabah and her family to the airport for deportation. She has to make a choice. Stay with her family and return to the war or escape on her own and live as an undocumented migrant in a foreign country.

A short film about a man who has DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and tries to cope with all of his personalities in the middle of a conversation with a psychotherapist.

A story of the internal struggle, shame and confession of a woman, gone through the path of the inner pain.

A Man and a Woman pressed by the circumstances. The man is ill while the woman is taking care of him as their love is dying. "To untie the knot you need to set it on fire - it will burn and the two ends of the rope will hang free."

Lazarus is a train driver, a calm person, but once he gave a hiding to a policeman. Then everything went wrong...

Federica is a girl like any other, has just 20 years. Each day takes care of her father who, because of an incident years earlier, lives in a vegetative state in a hospital bed. But one day something unexpected happens, something that attracts her attention and unhinge forever the certainties and deficiencies in the dwelling....really the distance from her father is so deep?

ulgarian shepherd stumbles upon a lost illegal refugee in the boundless Balkan mountains near the border. Their meeting is a connection between two worlds – different ethnic backgrounds, language and culture. Soon they will have to clash with the fear and agressioan of the people from the local village.

Several different life stories are intertwined in this film story. Stas and Coco are clowns, who are practice laughter therapy in the city hospital. One of their patients will change their idea of fear, pain and sadness forever. This is a film about the hope, the endless possibilities of the human spirit and the magic of life.

MINHA POESIA (My Poetry) is an audiovisual capsule on the life and work of poet Leide Moreira, revolving around the documentation of the ten years in which her poems were transcribed; unique moments in which Leide and her caregivers work with a visual chart based on the movement of her eyes, the only movement she has due to ALS (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). The narrative is comprised of everyday scenes from her present and past life with an original musical score inspired on her poetry and composed by musicians Nuno Mindelis, Elder Costa and Rafael Toledo.

I Know You Are There tells the story of Quentin, who is only 27 and has been in a coma for the past ten years. His mother brought him to the Coma Science Centre in Liège to let the medical staff decide whether or not there is still a chance of improvement. The other family members moved on with their lives already a long time ago. But now they need to come together and decide whether or not they can let Quentin go. Will this decision unite the family or break it further apart?

When life throws a detour, one must continue down the road to reach a goal.

A young man named Milad has had 4 surgeries because of brain tumor. Soon after his marriage he began to relapse. And the tumor developed again. And he has to do another surgery again first chance.

Diagnosed with Autism at age 3, Dashiell was given little hope for success. Through technology, music and love, one boy was brave enough to write his own story.

Health insurers are putting pressure on the enthusiastic GP Nico van Hasselt (91) to adapt his old-fashioned method to modern society, but he refuses to abandon his vulnerable patients.

How we die, and what happens after we die, will be the next major medical/ethical issue we confront as a global population. At present, death and dying are seen as failings of the human body, or a result of inadequate access to technology. This itself, mortality and the subsequent questions of ‘faith’ in what is to come, is, of course, very existential- because faith is derived from a the need for a ‘higher’ answer, the problem being that most of the time, we don't know what the question is? As such, in New Zealand, where Organ and Tissue Donation is voluntary, the question of whether to donate is understandably as complex as our own national ideologies of death practice. What inspired me to make ‘The recipient’ was the desire to explore the profound questions that donation poses of those who might use it, and in that exploration find a way to talk about the larger subject of Donation and mortality today.

Grey Matter follows two neurosurgeons and their patients during the treatment of brain disorders; besides life and death, personality is at stake.

Academic Pokrovski became famous in the middle of XX century with series of scientific discoveries in nutritionology and new way on food examination.

Haemophilia is a genetic disease that is characterized with impaired coagulation, and patients frequently and spontaneously suffer from bleeding. At European and world level, care for patients with haemophilia is carried out at specialized centres that have proven their great advantage in terms of quality of care and cost-effectiveness, related to their diagnosis, traceability, prevention and treatment. A very important condition is patients with haemophilia to be monitored at one and the same centre throughout their whole life. This stems from the specificity and rarity of the disease. In Bulgaria, the first centre, certified as an Expert Centre for Coagulopathies and Rare Anemias, was established in 2013 at University Hospital "St. Marina" in Varna, and it is located on the territory of the Clinic of Children's Hematology and Oncology.

Being diagnosed with a malignant tumor disease is an extremely traumatic event that changes both the entire life of a person and the one of his family and relatives. This new reality requires a huge adaptation to a totally different style of life, filled with surgeries, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, endless tests, combined with the killing anxiety of waiting for the test results, statistics, forecasts and expectations. When the facts are undeniable, there comes the time to fight. A great battle where you need scores of allies because the enemy is strong...

The film tells a story about the strength of human spirit, about a job well-done, about the warm human relationship between a doctor and a patient. As a result of all this, in the spring of 2015, the 78-year-old Elisaveta Ivanova left University Hospital “St. Marina” – Varna, free of cancer cells. After the surprising and shattering diagnosis of fourth-stage cancer of the rectum, after three severe surgeries of a tumor and metastasis in the lymph nodes and the liver, after severe and traumatic postoperative treatment, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, Elisaveta succeeded in overcoming cancer. This film also tells us about the difficult path that patients with severe oncology diseases need to pass, the fear of the diagnosis, the heavy and long-term treatment, and the joy of winning small and great victories.

In their remote home in the North Atlantic the Faroe Islanders have always eaten what nature could provide, proud to put local food on the table. The land yields little, so they have always relied on harvesting their seas. Hunting whales and seabirds kept them alive for generations, and gave them the way of life they love; a life they would pass on to their children. But today they face a grave threat to this tradition.

Jerusalem at night: the streets are empty and appear peaceful. A wall of barbed wire shows that the opposite is true. Day breaks and in the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo giraffes, elephants and other animals are released into their enclosures. People of all ethnic and religious groups work or meet as visitors – something normal in other areas of the world but that is an exception here, where violence and war is routine. HOLY ZOO raises questions about freedom and self- determination – the peaceful mood of everyday life there is fragile.

The Central African Republic. Here in the shade of sub-panel rainforests lives a tribe of the shortest people on Earth — the Baka pygmies. As it was hundreds years ago they hunt for meat and gather gifts of big trees. They pray to the spirits of the forest and teach their children to respect the forest, to take from it only what is of great need. But little by little their traditional mode is changing under the pressure of the "Big World" culture.

This film follows the life and experience of the people on board the Aquarius, a rescue ship in Mediterranean sea, during the period between September 14 and October 6, 2016.

88 MHz is a short documentary about the theatre radio journalist Jordan Georgiev, who is hosting the cultural program " No Masks "every Monday. Jordan is taking interviews with Bulgaria's most talented actors, directors, playwrights and film makers, truly going into the deepest aspects of their work, bringing unique depths of their art which no other journalist can see. Jordan is sightless.

Dennis is 18 and like any young man he wants to grow, to have love, family, professional success... He is like everybody but not in every way. He was born completely blind. This doesn't stop him setting and achieving goals – he practices different sports, he reads a lot and he even has his own way of watching movies. But his most daring dream is to become a sculptor. Is he ready to fight for it? And is the society ready for people like Dennis?

A small Bulgarian village just by the Turkish border has been resisting foreign invaders since the times of the Ottoman Empire. Now its electorate of 38 elderly Bulgarians is facing a tough decision. The Great Gate, as the village has been called for centuries because of its location, has found itself in the middle of a European crisis, as at nights asylum seekers sneak passing the border. The forgotten village has become the most important secret loophole of Europe. Ivan, the local postman, has a vision. He decides to run for mayor and turn the dying village alive by welcoming refugees. His opponents want to close their eyes, close down the border and reintroduce communism. As the campaign goes on, Ivan soon learns that while good intentions are not enough, even the smallest deeds matter.

Yesterday – peace, today – war. And if only all the military could solve their issues playing music, but not playing with our lives, - we’d get another tomorrow.

This is the story about Bikens, Dolma, Yangzee, Debika, Annie... But this could be the story of so many other female drug user, and maybe even your story too. Female drug addiction is an extreme taboo in Nepal, but a group ofbrave women will reveal their struggle to eradicate it, specially a cheap and dangerous drug called 'Pani', which users inject in their veins. This film provides unprecedented and rare access to these hidden lives, resulting in an moving and intimate portrait of the harsh reality of female addiction and prostitution in their homes, the streets where they try to survive, and one of the few female rehab centres in Nepal.

In New York City, a woman in the first trimester of pregnancy discovers through a long series of tests that there is a high likelihood her child will be born with severe physical defects. It turns out that she had been exposed to chemical weapons, even though she had no prior knowledge of her exposure. The doctor tells her that if she decides to abort, she will become infertile. She therefore has to choose between giving birth to a child who is likely to be severely handicapped or aborting the baby and giving up hope of ever having a child

After dealing with a series of extreme characters during a speed-dating event for senior citizens, an elderly woman meets a charming, exotic gentleman.

Prisonnier 9157 brings to life Dr. Boogaerts' story as a political prisoner in a concentration camp, and his testimonies in court as a key witness of the Nazis' crimes and experiments.

Krump is a short documentary about the dance style "Krump" and introduces young dancers, by award winning filmmaker Johannes Ziegler. The dancers show and tell to the viewer, how they use dance, to express their deep emotions and with this, they can feel free and peacefull. In an aesthetic way, this film immerses itself into a unknown world.

They are not young anymore. He suffered the heart attack. She has just recovered from diabetic coma. They haven’t seen each other for 30 years, from that very day, when their marriage came to an end. And now they have only 24 hours to answer the questions, that they still have to each other, in order to remind old grievances and understand that they still can love…

Frustrated, and humiliated at his office job, Steve shuffles through his daily routines. His world has turned grey. At home, his family barely speak to him. His son’s personality has dissipated into his phone, while his wife has become a dejected stranger. How could life have become so disappointing?

An elderly woman lives at a small station. There’s not a single living creature for miles away. Every day, during many years, she is making the round of the metals. The only event in the woman’s life is a train that passes her station without a stop.

A couple of hen and rooster are waiting for their chick to comes out from the egg. The rooster is a smoky man and ...

A young girl reconstructs events leading to her father's imprisonment and execution using dolls her mother has made. The young girl takes vengeance on the prison guard puppet doll...

The enemy attacked the country and war began. A pair of Soldier boots was being putting on by a man who are invisible. The boots get ready to go fight against the enemy, but when the boots saw the other fragment boots in the battlefield. They refused to go forward. The man puts off the boots and step forward to the front fighting with the enemy. it is full of symbols of my county`s situation, which we encounter with. After finishing the war some people(boots) who were not important and useless in the country became important and now are in the best position and rank of the Pyramid Power of government and in the showcase while they didn't cost that much.

A soldier in pursuit of the enemy. He has a track goes up.He makes his way ambush.....

A lonely man’s compassion for life is tested whilst presiding over his favourite fishing cliffs.

A child with his brother is alone at home. His brother is a newborn baby. Newborn baby starts to crying. He find a strange decision to calm his newborn brother down.

What is influence of war in family.

The film is about a soldier, who was wounded at war and returned home, where his mother was waiting him.

A child lives in a terrible routine. One day finds a way to escape, and the world will no longer be what it was.

A mullah and a priest who serve in the temples in the neighboring villages are blood brothers. Parental disagreements and personal offences have caused a divide between them. But with age they begin to question this and understand their habits need to change. Will they manage to forgive each other?

A zoo in the Gaza Strip during the war, a girl feeding on a helpless living being trapped. Suddenly there is a bombing attack.

A girl loves the superhero films and she starts to play for her home.

Peshmerga (Kurdish fighter) Through the ages, fought against terrorists and occupiers And sacrificed during this struggle were; buried revive, genocide, and chemical attack in Halabja, but this did not lead to waiver the Kurds for civil and peaceful human struggle.

Jamal, a young Gambian migrant, arrives in Italy on a boat, emotionally scarred by the tough travel of desperation and death (across the Mediterranean sea). He will recover his life, abruptly abandoned, on the keys of a piano which will offer him a way to reconstruct his future.

Inspired by true events. It is Christmas Eve in Syria, a small kid plays hide and seek with his dad and he picks the most unexpected place to hide in; the fireplace. Within few seconds a jet fighter bombards their house to the ground. The fireplace stands still, however the small kid finds himself trapped alone.

The Film story is about a captain that for the unknown reasons, imprisoned long time. He was release from prison and come back to his ship in Urmia lake but…

The story of "Sonia", the woman who helped to stop Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the 13rd november terrorist attack' author.

A man in deadly danger looking for help in a deserted field.

In the land which burn by war, human looking for safety caches, Sheik Omer Abdul Rahmaan Ali lives there in an old house with his grandson and for distance there are camp for Christians displace trying to enter to the heart of the kids, it was necessary to run a lost war against the forces of darkness

When Marc is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he doesn't know how and when to tell his girlfriend Sophie about it.

The life of a beautiful woman before and after an attack which left her face scarred.

The film depicts the stark reality of life for a homeless son and his father living on the streets of a modern city. The boy faces bitterness and sadness over the fact that his father leaves him as soon as his mother dies in hospital. However, the boy have to survive and make decision of his life.

Inspired by the incredible true story about a young man JUST (24), who lost both of his legs in a childhood accident and who is in love with the girl next door - IEVA (23). The story begins when JUST meets IEVA on the doorstep of the house they both live in. They start a flirty conversation that is interrupted by two thieves, who rob Ieva in front of JUST. In the blink of an eye JUST decides to follow the thieves to retrieve IEVA’S bag and conquer her heart.

Akash gets his friend's house keys to take Sonam there. They met at a house party. Both are tense, unsure if the plan will work.And here begins her zindagi, a coming of age film that takes you through the journey of a relationship between a guy and a girl.

Refugees arriving in Belgium and locked up by their smugglers until all payments are finalised.

Close your eyes and imagine that you never get to open them back. Now imagine that time passes and your ears stop hearing sounds. How would your life change? Bellanca is the story of a very special girl who helps her father cope with the Usher Syndrome, a disease that affects both hearing and vision.

A different short story about Little Red Riding Hood.

Finding liberty, people try to fall down the dictator statue...

The story is about a commander. During his speech something weird happens...

Simple story about technology.

This movie has a short look at the earth and its beauty and the way human being gains importance in between.

A meteorologist who narrates his experience in the Arctic through a voice recording. And how his life is linked physically and spiritually to nature.

A modest housekeeper keeps being bullied by an hysterical bourgeois for no apparent reason. Forced to endure these abuses in order to avoid being sent back to Cuba, she makes a discovery that will change everything.

Driver of a powerful towercrane due trancendental and dominated operation involves occasional observation on his neighbour roof which there are a young woman and her disabled husband playing their pigeons. This is a beginning of an attention and mutation for him. But at the moments of occurancies and their bottleneck events, the driver, despite of his strength, is unable to do anything for them. Finally his divinity authority turned to "fixed hand" and disappointed entity. After all these changes, we consider that wheel of fortune and couses and effects chain will continue without any dependency on him, just like authority and fatherhood era.

Lourdes is a family mother who must fight to his short age for his”children, is a widow and lives in a community where they do not possess a resource so basic as the drinkable water.

Lia Grace Simon and her children are forced to flee from the war in South Sudan and are trying to start over their lives in a refugee camp in Uganda.

Around three years have passed since the city of Tripoli - Lebanon witnessed the last round of clashes in 2014. Three years and the conflict zones are left alone in the struggle to heal its wounds... As if the absence of war is enough alone to bring back life... As if nothing had happened before. This short documentary is part of the «Roadmap to Reconciliation in Tripoli - Lebanon» initiative which is lead by local and international peace building experts. The initiative aims to solidify peace and security in the city through launching a process of transitional justice and communal reconciliation that are built on deep understanding of the root causes of the socioeconomic and political issues in the city of Tripoli, Lebanon. A movie... to be continued...

We meet refugees who have fled from the crisis in DR Congo to the neighboring country of Uganda. Combined with their stories, thoughts and reflections, we are faced with our own preconceptions about life as a refugee, as well confronted with our position in the global refugee situation.

1 in 4 women will be raped in their lifetime. Often by a man we trust. Guilt and naturalization of violence silences and blinds us. The Loudest Silence is a film-essay about the discovery of four women as rape survivors themselves. In an allegorical scenery, they share their painful date-rape stories and reflect upon what it is to be a woman in this world. Is this world made for us?

The documentary investigates an explosion of couple of cars in peaceful city Samawa, located southern Iraq. In which resulted in an unfortunate results.

The Road Not Taken is a documentary on the lives of some beautiful children and their unfortunate mothers. It follows the stories of former sex workers who were forced into prostitution at a very early age, and a team of women who have provided shelter to their young children to protect them from falling into the same trap.

Between 1996 and 2006, an internal armed conflict broke out between the Nepal Communist Party and government forces resulting in over 15,000 casualties. By 2016, more than 1,300 persons were still reported as missing by their families. "The Doll's Funeral" illustrates the emotional journey of a mother visiting the place where her daughter was last seen. Back in the village, the family performs the final rites, which helps them to complete the mourning process.

Socio-economic marginalization of the Roma in Croatia is often tied to their low level of education. In the documentary, a group of pupils, both Roma and non-Roma nationality, talk about their experiences at school, about interaction, inclusion and discrimination they encounter. They give a personal opinion about the importance of respect to other people, about their everyday challenges and about their hopes and dreams.

World history has been packed with incidences of people with huge statures like Siddiqa Parveen from West Bengal, India. Noticing her gigantism due to Acromegaly, oblivious parents hid her. Eventually, she was admitted to the district hospital after she fainted and then was taken to state-capital but came back untreated. Siddiqa’s resentment never forbade her from showering affection towards her nephew. Still she is living a miserable life confined within four walls of her house with shattered dreams.

They are here, by the road. They can´t read, don´t know about the age. Survival tricks are all they know. They are humans.

"Talibés" are West African children aged between 4 and 14 years old who have been given by their parents - usually farmers without resources - to Koranic school teachers, who enslave and force them to beg on the streets.

A harrowing story of an Egyptian father and daughter, Coptic Christian converts, that fled to Cyprus in fear of their lives. Conversions from Islam to Christianity are not officially recognised in Egypt. They long for a permanent, safe home and a life of peace. Coptic Christians have been persecuted throughout history and are often the target of intolerance and sectarian violence. Copts in Egypt are around 10% of the population- the largest religious minority.

The story of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand, who came to work in the agricultural sector. Migrant workers in Thailand work very hard but gain low wages.

Where poverty is deep and wide, the right of Children is largely neglected and child labour exists. Jakir is one of those child labourers- Push kids who are engaged in day long hard working- pushing and pulling of the rickshaws and goods laden pushcarts in Keane Bridge, an old bridge over the River Surma of Sylhet City in Bangladesh. These push kids are deprived of education and dreams of child life. Every moment they risk their lives to earn their living - to earn money for their poor family. It reveals the heart moving heart- wrenching story of these worst victims of child labour in Bangladesh.

Day in the life of one of the brick factories and numerous positions between child workers begin his life in this profession and between an old man end his life in the same profession.

Lana is 4 years old and she is blind. Let's spend one day with her at the Hellen Keller Center.

Bruno is a boy with cerebral palsy who shows his abilities in Adapted Gymnastics, in the project Gymnastics for All, in the Sport and Cultural Club of Enxerim, in Silves, with the guidance of Coach Hugo Mendes.

Freediving tests the limits of human potential. For Rebecca Illing, this breathless "meditation with consequences" released her from addiction. Her journey to self acceptance takes her to unspeakable depths, where she finds absolute peace of mind at the bottom of the sea. Her story challenges us to question our own addictions, big and small, and inspires us to find our own path to self love.

Rangers. They are the unsung heroes of conservation. We meet a plethora of different kinds Rangers; The guards of Sudan, the rangers in the field and the antipoacher squads. This film explores their stories; why they became rangers, the challenges and the experience. It hopes to shed light on the good work they do and gives them the exposer they deserve.

Goma, the principal city of North Kivu province, has been sadly called the “rape capital of the world”: 15 thousand women are raped every year, an average of 48 per hour, almost one every minute. After the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict that took place in London in 2014, the world has turned its back on rapes victims in Congo. This short documentary wants to bring this endless tragedy back into the spotlight through the stories of the victims and through the testimony of the people who give medical and psychological support to these women.

Valeria Charry is a 19 year old Colombian girl who dreams being a professional ballet dancer but her condition has made this dream hard to reach. Despite having Down syndrome, her parents raised her as an ordinary person. It is her dedication and perseverance that has led her to great triumphs and even more close to this dream. But Valeria has a bigger dreams, be treated as a person without conditions.

The documentary "From the Edge of Sanity" is interwoven with the destiny of a Christian family from Syria. At the peak of the war two sons and a daughter of Younes Ayoub and Helen Alashehab leave the war-torn fatherland. Fear of terrorists and a desire to preserve the family together forced the 65-year-old Helen to go after their children. The family sold most of the property to pay smugglers to take them to Europe.The hero of the film, seventy years old Younes Ayoub, remains in Damascus...

In The Indian subcontinent, brick making is typically a manual process. Majority of the migrant labourers go as family units to work in the brick kilns. Substantial number of children (below 14 years) becomes the victim of such migration. They become subject to ghetto living, miss their education, work as extended family labourers and are deprived of any kind of health facilities.

The calling is not afraid to Be. The calling is quiet and unobtrusive. You can see its sparks on every life path. The American writer and theologian Frederick Buechner says, "The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." A successor to the Babylonians, Egyptian priests and ancient Greek scholars. A descendant of the great minds of ancient Greece - Alkmaion, Democritus, Hippocrates and Aristotle. A worthy son of the Father of Anatomy, Andreas Vesalius. Prof. Vanko Vankov, the founder of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology at Medical University - Varna. The greatest medical and biological Department, an authoritative centre for education and research.

А biographical film about Prof. Dr. Garabed Kaprelyan - Rector of Higher Medical Institute - Varna and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine in the period 1977 – 1983. Every one of us has his/her own concept of the meaning of life. And of the trail we leave behind us. As different as our visions might be, we all are striving to leave something behind us. We measure our lives with what we are to bequeath to the future, with what the generations will remember after us, hearing our name.

The jokes of life are unpredictable ... To love something so dearly and not to be able to relish to its fullest ... But to do everything in your power so that the others can enjoy and use it… A Soul of Sea – a biographical film about Assoc. Prof. Dr. Stamat Stamatov - the founder of the Healing Tourism along the Bulgarian coast. He is a scientist with a recognized international reputation and a prominent public figure. He devotes 65 years of his life to the Bulgarian Healthcare and Tourism and he establishes himself as the creator of modern Thalassotherapy and a Doyen of Health Tourism in Bulgaria and in Europe.

Prof. Jürgen Köbke is a longtime Head of the Department of Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cologne. He is a pioneer in the development of Clinical Anatomy. In the 1990s the Department of Anatomy at the University of Cologne began a long-lasting and fruitful collaboration with the Departments of Anatomy and Orthopedics at MU - Varna. The film explores Prof. Köbke's key function and the facets of this partnership through the eyes of distinguished personalities, who have contributed to the development, expansion and modernization of the image of the Departments of Anatomy and Orthopedics at MU - Varna.

We live in a world where we constantly receive promises, irresistible proposals and awesome offers. We are always ready to take, use, consume. Donating something from ourselves is a priceless emotion.

The sand and the waves are the workplace for some people - the rescuers. Those, who have no time to enjoy the summer in the way we are used to, because they are working. Because they take care of our life and health on the seashore.

In the 21st century we have an easy access to information, thanks to which we live with rapidly gained knowledge on our surrounding reality. We accept the facts shared by anonymous sources as the new truth, and we start living according to it without even being aware whether we really benefit from it or we harm ourselves. In the series "Let Us Shatter Delusions" we will meet you with real experts, who will explain the scientific truth about the world around us

A healthy lifestyle, alternative but scientifically proven methods of treatment, prophylaxis, prevention, sports, physical and mental relaxation of the organism. All this is in sync with nature and its resources.

People with Down syndrome are smiling and get attached easily. This genetic abnormality does not always imply mental retardation, sometimes cardiac disorders and low muscle tone are observed, but these disorders can be treated through physiotherapy. Anyway, how is the life of people with Down syndrome and their relatives going on?

What is it like to fight with the growth hormone from a very early age? How do you get used to daily injections? What determines whether Thumbelina will grow big?

Dr. Miroslav Zhivkov is the first orthopedist in Bulgaria to heal children with a congenital "crooked step" by the method of the world-famous physician Professor Ponsetti.

Film portrait of two of the most famous Bulgarian doctors - Prof. Stefan Gabrovski and Professor Nikolay Gabrovski. Recognized for authority in one of the most difficult areas of medicine - neurosurgery, they are among the specialists who have won a world reputation for our country in this field of medicine.

A group of young people with Down syndrome embark on a demanding trek through the Himalayas with their siblings. As they deal with physical and emotional challenges, unresolved conflicts come to surface and heartwarming friendships develop.

Apollon is the teenager of the modern days. Hung up by the masculinity’s social pressure, he dreams to be a grown male, fantasizing a perfect body with strong muscles and a big dick.

Jacqueline and her husband Maurice win $100.000 in the Holiday edition of a televised game show. Together, they try to hide the jackpot from the Harris family, to whom they owe a large sum of money. The Harris family is spending Christmas Eve with them when the game show host shows up uninvited.

Swann and Malik were friends forever. They have only their joyous rage to conquer Paris. But Malik wants to take a shortcut. A bad skeem. Swan, aspires to a more harmonious life. Will he be dragged by friendship?

Reeling in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide attempt, a young swimmer works through her trauma in the water while desperately trying to break the wall of silence at home. The operation is transformed in a panic.

In the deep valleys that cross the regions to the east of the Black Sea, a group of extraordinary people maintain traditions through strong, unceasing relationships – as they carry out a series of projects from the construction of zero-impact cableways to establishing retreats that cling to the edge of a precipice. In this part of Turkey, and in their unusual ways, people and communities encounter “wild nature” between two amazing blue passages: sea and sky. Nominations: Mountain Film Festival Award, Antalya International Film Festival, Turkey, 2015; SUSY Sustainability Award, Terra Di Tutti Film Festival, 2016

The story of charismatic painter Wladyslaw Strzeminski, who opposed social realism and maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.

"Stolen Life" is the name of a Bulgarian drama series, with which NOVA takes on a new challenge, along with the production company Dream Team. The show tracks the dramatic twists and turns of the main character's heroes taking place against the backdrop of the vibrant daily life of a big city hospital. Heroes' stories intertwine with stressfilled cases of medical practice that create the actual frame of the plot and provoke the interest and the emotions of viewers. Young, talented and beautiful actors are partnering with well-known names, surprising twists and interesting storylines filled with love, betrayal, friendship and difficult risky decisions are the main engines of the intrigue that keeps viewers of different age groups from the first to the last episode. As an exclusive event of the 17th International Red Cross and Health Film Festival in Varna a meeting with favorite actors from "Stolen Life" will be held and episodes from the third season of the series ("Retribution") will be shown in cinema theater.

A new reading of the less famous and unknown works of Nikola Yonkov Vaptsarov, which surprise with their current sound for contemporary problems. Director Maya Vaptsarova reviews the history of Bulgaria through the poet's poems, which with wisdom respond to the past and seem to prophetically accompany us in the present.

This film tells two stories that converge after forty minutes. The first of these features Khaled, a Syrian refugee. A stowaway on a coal freighter, he ends up in Helsinki where he applies for asylum without much hope of success. Wikström, the second main character, is a travelling salesman peddling ties and men’s shirts. Turning his back on his trade, he instead decides to put his poker face to good use at a gambling table and subsequently buys himself a restaurant in the remotest corner of Helsinki. When the authorities turn down Khaled’s application, he decides to remain in the country illegally, like so many other people who share his fate. Going underground in the Finnish capital, he lives on the streets and encounters all kinds of racism, but also some cool rock ’n’ rollers and genuine friendship. One day Wikström discovers Khaled sleeping in the dark backyard behind his restaurant. He provides him with a bed and a job. For a while, these two band together with the restaurant’s waitress, the chef and his dog to form a utopian union – one of Aki Kaurismäki’s typical communities bound together by fate which demonstrates that the world could and should be a better place

Summer 1962, Olli Mäki has a shot at the world championship title in featherweight boxing. From the Finnish countryside to the bright lights of Helsinki, everything has been prepared for his fame and fortune. All Olli has to do is lose weight and concentrate. But there is a “It was 2011, and I met Olli and Raija in Kokkola. Olli has severe Alzheimer’s disease now, but he still remembers his old stories. He told me about this championship fight back in 1962, and when he ended his story by saying: “It was the happiest day of my life,” he had this smile on his face that forced me to ask incredulously “How come?” I didn’t know much about boxing myself, but it was still obvious to me that if you’re preparing for a world championship fight, you should be 100% dedicated to the fight. Then, as I started to dig deeper into Olli’s story, I realised that it was full of beautiful details and complexity which lifted it from the average into something unique. Art is in the details, I’ve heard.“ problem – he has fallen in love with Raija. 

The story of a young mother (Jasmine Trinca) with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair dressers salon, challenging her fate in an effort to free herself and gain independence and right to happiness.

Caroline's mother Isabelle is dead. While she stays at her mother's house, her body disappears.

Benoit, the new kid at school, is bullied by a gang of arrogant boys. Determined not to be pushed around, Benoit organizes a big party, but only three students turn up. What if this bunch of losers was to be the best gang ever?

At the head of his NGO Move For Kids, Jacques Arnault pulls some humanitarian workers in a country of Africa "to take in" orphan children. The operation is transformed in a panic.

There was little chance, in the year 1971, that Carole, a Paris Spanish teacher and feminist militant, would ever meet Delphine, the daughter of a couple of Limousin farmers. But they did meet and not only did they come across each other but they fell passionately in love as well. Unfortunately, Delphine's father fell victim to a stroke, and the young woman had no other choice but to go back home to help her mother run the family farm. Carole, who was so smitten by Delphine, couldn't stand the estrangement and decided to join her lover at the farm. But could feminism and lesbianism easily be transferred to the countryside and its standards of the time...?

In discussion of cinematic "world-building," contemporary conversation tends to drift towards comic-book movies, the fantastical creations that populate the multiplexes, or the self-contained refractions of reality crafted by the likes of Wes Anderson and the Coen brothers. However, few American auteurs have managed to construct as singular a filmic universe as Terrence Malick. His is a world of hushed whispers and natural wonder, a cinema of poetry. And now Malick has delivered his magnum opus, a years-in-the-making ode to the wonder of creation. The wildly ambitious Voyage of Time is every bit as epic as its name implies: Malick leads us on a temporal trip through the history of the universe. After witnessing the birth of stars and the evolution of life on Earth, we pause to wonder at the sun and planets before plunging into the inky depths of the oceans, where incandescent creatures float in the darkness. Featuring soulful narration by Cate Blanchett, the film brings a contemplative and speculative tone to the grandeur of its subject; it sprawls across the screen with glorious images. A visual wonder and an intellectual treat, Voyage of Time continues Malick's recent resurgence and stands among the most remarkable cinematic experiences of the year. Jesse Wente

"Cinema on palm" - program of awarded movies - 2017. „Cinema on palm“ is the first festival in Bulgaria for films shot with cell phones. It is aimed at all independent film makers, ready to experiment with modern technologies. In 2017 was held for second time in Shumen with even greater interest rfom authors and public. Main topics covered by the awarded movies in 2017 are the contemporary problems of communication. They directly relate and reflect on various aspects of our life: friendship, creative work, pursuit of selfrecognition, impossible love, relation between tradition and modern life. The style of most movies is quite direct and reveals how modern people communicate, run into problems and look for solutions. The film makers do not deal with abstract existential issues but with the main questions for human existence: what it means to call someone a friend or beloved; how a persons can be good to others and what a person can do for other people. Enjoy our award winning selection!

Bulgarian woman 2.0 by Diana Stoyanova
Police art therapy by Boris Ivanov
Snail’s sunset by Branimir Arsov
My Japan by Boris Mechkuev
Fairy tales about reality by Diko Buchukov
Grows, but does not age by Aleksandar Dimitrov
Elelika Pepelika by Magda Bozhanova
Em by Maria Mincheva
Sleepless by Kremena Pechlivanova
Glasses by Mario Georgiev
Selfie by Dalia Hristova
Hands Up by Maria Makedonska
Communication by Viktor Todorov
I’m not my wheelchair by Magdalena Petrova
Love on the butterfly wings by Binses Demir
Unnailed emotions by Ivan Petkov
Skopje: Backstage by Dimitar Stoyanov
Bicycles by Pavel Tzvetkov
Autopsy of a tango by Pavla Kotova and Theodora-Kossara Popova