Emil Christov

In a dystopian future, a nation of bio-titans has been created and the female sex and procreation have become obsolete. As the Earth turns toxic, the bio-titans are eager to colonise the cosmos on board a colossal spaceship, taking with them only one female body kept barely alive as a reminder of the troubled past. But everything changes when the immortal calligrapher Krypton, tasked with creating an indestructible copy of the entire written heritage of his kin, sees a forbidden book turn into a feisty girl, Gargara.

Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town, finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers.

In an authoritarian police state, a charismatic schemer is fired from his job as a secret-police informant, conjures up his own imaginary spy network and builds up an archive that he turns against his former masters.

Follows the parallel stories of a number of characters who are trying to change their lives via the Internet or are simply having fun online.

At 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 vender 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...

Nina is 12. Her mother, Nazca, who was laid off from the factory, finds work at a remote mountain dairy. Nina cannot continue her studies, but this is the only way to avoid repeating her mother's fate.

Moth 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.

Tras un accidente de coche, un joven búlgaro llamado Alex no puede recordar ni siquiera su nombre. Para curar su amnesia, su abuelo Bai Dan se marcha a Alemania y le organiza a su nieto un viaje espiritual, cuyo destino es su país de origen y, por tanto, el pasado. En distintos lugares, momentos y medios de transporte, cruzando media Europa, juegan al backgammon, el juego más sencillo y sin embargo el más complejo de todos. El juego lleva a Alex a recordar quién es y simboliza la historia. El destino es el dado que tenemos en nuestras manos y la vida es un juego a medio camino entre la suerte y la habilidad. Seleccionada por Bulgaria como candidada al Oscar 2010 en la categoría de película de habla no inglesa.

Two trains uncontrollably move towards each other within temporal boundaries of a human life. One of them is taking a genial young man to his unforeseen future; he would marry his beloved; have a son; become a brilliant doctor; do his duty and save the live of enemies of the communist regime; get a 20-years sentence for that. Prison would turn out to be an unbearable nightmare; his wife would eventually give in to the tortures of the authorities and seek divorce; this would mean no one to visit him in prison. 15 years without any news about his child, only a snapshot of his family on which the tree of them are smiling and happy.

Anton, un joven aprendiz de monitor de natación, mantiene la ilusión de su padre ciego de que la piscina siga intacta y muy concurrida. Anton es un excéntrico solitario que sueña con navegar por los anchos mares rumbo a Tuvalu, sueño que comparte con Eva, joven de 18 años a quien le agrada mucho el carácter especial de Anton. El fallecimiento de su padre en la piscina al caerle un trozo de techo les impide salir al mar con el remolcador de Eva. El culpable de lo sucedido no es otro que Gregor, el hermano de Anton, cuyo objetivo es destruir la piscina, y de paso toda la ciudad, para reemplazarla por una nueva ciudad futurista. Anton tiene difícil la labor de salvar la piscina y mantenerla abierta, pero todo resultaría soportable si al menos se ganara el corazón de Eva.

The homeless, underground residents at a post-communist train station and their intimate confessions. A film not about misery, but the lust for life and color even at the depths of human despair.

A Bulgarian "Drugstore Cowboy." A teenage girl's rebellion through drugs becomes a metaphor for the struggle between individuality and totalitarianism. Amidst the political upheaval of 1968, Sybilla (the "Countess") is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists efforts to remold her personality. Based on a true story.