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- DirectorViktor ChouchkovStarsYavor BaharovRadina KardjilovaOvanes TorosianTILT is a love story set against the backdrop of the changing political and social environment in Europe in the late 1980s and early '90s. Can this love survive the challenges of emigration, a violent homeland and immoral social atmosphere thanks to a gang of adventurous friends?
- DirectorStephan KomandarevStarsPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicCarlo LjubekHristo MutafchievThe story of Alex, who, with the help of his charismatic grandfather, Bai Dan, embarks on a journey in search of his real self.
- DirectorIlian DjevelekovStarsHristo ShopovZachary BaharovLilia MarvilyaFollows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online.
- DirectorGeorgi D. KostovStarsFilipa BaldevaAssen BlatechkiYordan DanchevPistol, Suitcase and Three stinking barrels is a gangster comedy which tells the story of the 23-year-old student Anton, a.k.a "The Beautiful". He has a dream but in order for it to come true he must first find money. The Beautiful decides to risk it all and unfortunately he finds himself mixed up in a hell of a mess of intertwining absurd situations with a drug lord fascinated with Lego, a group of small time crooks, a dangerous top cop, a sexy blond, corrupted government agents, a football player and his mistress, etc.
- DirectorDimitar KolevStarsAsya IvanovaDarina StoyanovaBoyana StoilovaAsya, Boyana, Iren and Vera are assassins working for S.T.A.R. Will they succeed in finding the killer of their boss?
- DirectorCvetodar MarkovStarsVladimir GeorgievGergana KofradjievaBoyko KrastanovA young man has trouble communicating with people and is seeing a shrink. He falls in love at first sight, then meets three friends and joins their small community. The four youngsters naively decide to make some easy money by blackmailing an elderly woman. Little do they know that a stranger with a shady past and problematic present will turn their lives upside down. A story about love and despair, hope and disillusionment, revenge and revelation.
- DirectorIvan MitovStarsDelly AllenHarry AnichkinZachary BaharovOperation Shmenti Capelli is one of the most unique filmmaking stories in Bulgaria during the last twenty years. The long awaited eccentric comedy is a personal dream of popular Bulgarian actor Vladislav Karamfilov-Vargala. The title is based on the idiomatic expression "shmenti capelli" characterizing actions of people who like to shuffle and bamboozle others with superficial commitments. Karamfilov choose it as a metaphor for people with huge economic and political power. The funny comedy incorporates a tragic story in which Karamfilov plays two roles: the Big Guy and the Little Guy. Big is tied to the Mafia and the secret services. Little is an unemployed teacher, squeezed and crushed by the system, which stops his heating and electricity, has his home emptied by a bailiff, and uses him as a tool in a game.
- DirectorKamen KalevStarsChristo ChristovOvanes TorosianSaadet AksoyThrough Georgi (a juvenile) and Itso (an adult), we take a quick glance (about one and a half hour quick) at what happens in post cold-war Bulgaria.
- DirectorKonstantin BojanovStarsAngela NedyalkovOvanes TorosianMartin BrambachTwo troubled teens hitchhike across Bulgaria.
- DirectorAndrey SlabakovStarsDarin AngelovDejan AngelovErnestina ChinovaTwo very similar families are settling in two identical houses in a new fashionable neighborhood built near a complex of panel-apartment buildings. The couples are in their forties. The husbands are moderate professionals and the wives are housewives without children and with firmly fixed habits. Step by step they find out how similar they are and step by step they come to hate each other. The more they strive to be different and the more they fail, the stronger their malice and their lust to harm each other grow.
- DirectorLyudmil TodorovStarsAleksandra SurchadzhievaElen KolevaVioleta MarkovskaThree young girls try to flee from unemployment in the country: they arrive in the capital city of Sofia to look for a job and a different future. The three of them try to survive, fighting a hostile reality which threatens to break their innocent and bright ideas of life, imposing on them its vicious morality. One of the girls does break and becomes the love-toy of a pimp. Prompted by her betrayal, the second one gets involved into a love triangle and attempts suicide. The third girl puts up a struggle for her closest friends' redemption.
- DirectorNiki IlievStarsLubomir KovatchevSanya BorisovaNiki IlievA Frenchman falls in love with a hot temper Bulgarian village girl. Following the call of his heart he starts looking for the village where she lives without knowing the character and the language of the people living there.
- StarsVelislav PavlovDimityr JivkovDaria MitushevaA man was wrongfully accused and sent to jail. When his sentence is over, he goes on his way of finding the people, who ruined his life and killed his family.
- CreatorTeodora MarkovaGeorgi IvanovStarsIvaylo ZaharievZachary BaharovVladimir PenevTrained young policeman goes undercover in the gang of the most dangerous mafia boss in Bulgaria.
- DirectorIvaylo HristovStarsIvan BarnevYana TitovaAssen BlatechkiAt the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi takes up drinking and gets into trouble with the Bulgarian militia (police) because of his family background. This is when he decides to defect to the West. After staying at a refugee camp in Austria and another desperate love, he sets out to the United States. There Slavi makes some new friends who help him buy a truck. He hits the roads of America, where he comes across an Indian who sells him an arrow. The vendor tells him this amulet will bring his love back. Eventually, Slavi comes back to Bulgaria, where communism has collapsed. His beloved Nelly lives alone with her daughter. One day Slavi meets her again...
- DirectorJavor GardevStarsZachary BaharovTanya IlievaVladimir PenevMoth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world - the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of freedom draws the map of a diabolical city full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and a bizarre parade of characters.
- DirectorLudmil LazarovStarsIvaylo AsparuhovRozaliya DimitrovaZlatina IordanovaA powerless man attempting suicide is being attacked by ruthless 1400 years old ancient warrior.
- DirectorKaloyan PaterkovVal TodorovStarsIvo ArakovPlamen ManassievKaloyan PaterkovThis is the story of a young photographer, who is in love with his beautiful girlfriend, an old camera and Roland Barthes. He insists obsessively that his black and white pictures reveal deeper levels of reality. Let's call him 'You'. The poetry of street protests, the antique shop, the red light in his photo lab, the nightclub Maze, the mirrors and the sex - this is the canvas of his confession and existential angst... However, why does 'You' confess to the man at the bar? Let's call him 'I'. Is he really madly in love with his girlfriend as he professes? Are his black and white pictures a true representation of reality? Or is it all just an elaborate reconstruction of deceitful montage?
- DirectorMaya VitkovaStarsIrmena ChichikovaDaria VitkovaKalina VitkovaUnwanted by her mother, Viktoria is being born with no umbilical cord and doesn't need Boryana until the hardships of life bind them together.
- DirectorNiki IlievStarsOrlin PavlovNiki IlievSanya BorisovaGroup of friends meet again, 13 years after their prom because of a problem of one of them, and face the opportunity to experience the things in life they have always put aside in life so far.
- DirectorNikolay MutafchievStarsMarinela AngelovaAnthony ArguirovMira BoyadjievaFour women who have reached the bottom of despair are ready to do anything to re-surface again, and at that very moment life offers them the most absurd opportunity to fulfill their dream. On the borderline between fantasy and reality, the four of them realize that when you have nothing you can risk everything. They rush into a planned bank robbery without realizing that money is the last thing they need. Because fate sets them against people who dream as well.