Zarkov
The contrast of a hippie style commune up in the mountain and a drug addicts rehab center in the valley. What could go wrong if someone escapes the rehab?
A small town in present-day Bulgaria. A mother and her two daughters are struggling to survive. The dreamy and distracted younger daughter often invents stories in order to make life more interesting. Unwittingly, she eventually gets caught in the trap of her own lies and destroys her older sister's well-ordered materialistic world. Meanwhile, the two sisters find out the truth about their mother
Svetla é uma viúva que, recentemente, perdeu o emprego como professora. A vila onde mora fica próxima à fronteira da Bulgária com a Turquia e, frequentemente, refugiados aparecem por ali. Um dia, enquanto caçava em uma floresta, Svetla se depara com um migrante africano, fato que suscita uma transformação dramática em sua vida. A mulher, então, é forçada a se rebelar contra as pessoas da comunidade, enquanto elas incitam o refugiado negro a deixar a aldeia imediatamente. Representante da Bulgária no Oscar 2022 de Filme Internacional. Seleção da 45ª Mostra de Cinema de São Paulo, em 2021.
Vasil
Vasil acaba de perder sua parceira de longa data, sua esposa Valentina. Quando uma mulher em seu funeral proclama que a mulher morta ligou para seu celular, Vasil procura a ajuda de um conhecido médium para entrar em contato com sua esposa. Seu filho Pavel tenta trazê-lo à razão, mas Vasil teimosamente insiste em fazer as coisas à sua maneira. "O Pai" é um drama familiar íntimo sobre as dificuldades de se conectar com pessoas próximas a nós. À medida que a imagem lentamente ganha impulso, sua história se desdobra em muitas situações absurdas ou cômicas cuidadosamente organizadas.
The Doctor
Irina is a part-time waitress in a small Bulgarian town. On the very same day when she is fired, her husband gets into a serious accident. Irina's family is trapped in poverty. To make ends meet, she becomes a surrogate mother. Fights, despair and the seed of life growing in her belly bring on another wave to this rough and wrecked life. Slowly, Irina discovers what it means to love and to forgive.
In the old houses of a mountain village, intellectuals from the capital city have settled down. One of the settlers, a notorious bohemian and joker, left a funeral screenplay and video recordings directing his farewell to life. Nobody is aware that he has purchased a burial plot in the cemetery with a rock underneath it. While building his tomb, his confessions, memories and jokes are flowing from the improvised film shows at the local pub and the mourning ceremony evolves into a bash.
The Inspector
Being part of the 2013 anti government protests in Bulgaria the talented Pr creator Boyden confronts a choice- to help nursing his dying demented grandfather or fight for his unjustly lost job. He goes back in his communism infested home to understand that to help the old man he has to fight his alcohol dependence first. On the way of bringing his life back together Boyden has to make another choice.
Minister Kanchev
Tsanko Petrov encontrou uma grande quantia de dinheiro nos trilhos do trem, onde trabalha, e decidiu entregar tudo à polícia. Como recompensa, recebe um novo relógio de pulso, que logo para de funcionar. O problema é que Julia Staikova, chefe do departamento de relações públicas do Ministério dos Transportes, perdeu o antigo relógio de Petrov, fazendo com que ele inicie uma busca desenfreada pelo objeto.
Professora descobre que um dos seus alunos roubou uma pequena quantia em dinheiro dentro da sala de aula. Por ser muito rígida em seus princípios, ela se esforça para descobrir quem foi o responsável com a intenção de lhe ensinar o que é certo e errado. Ao mesmo tempo, precisa tomar medidas desesperadas para evitar a ruína financeira de sua família.
Rumbata
The trumpet player, Jonah, moves into the remains of his grandfather's house near where the treasure is hidden. In a tunnel under the house he finds a stone with a bird engraved on it and a map with an inscription in Arabic: "To have a house of gold, fall onto the sky and find the twin!" A copy of the same map brings Rumba and Emma to the same place. Rumba is Bulgarian and a passionate treasure-hunter. His wife is American and studies Bulgarian folklore as a way to fight globalization. Rumba wants to buy Jonah's property so he can find the treasure.
It is a story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is raw. Their concepts of man's dignity, friendship and duty are wrong and primitive. The film helps us to understand and forgive them.
Moyta Petrov
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
First Musician
Four friends and three girls spend a summer on a desolated beach, living in an abandoned hut.
Ponko is one of the newly rich who made their fortune gambling as an elite player in a small town. In order to avoid dealing with other competitive players of the same kind, he settled a deal for himself to do time at a low security detention facility. He can still be in charge of his deal from prison with the help of his wife Rada. Yet, he bets and loses Rada to another prisoner at a game, which gives that man the right to spend a night with her, as well as to join the elite of players he is part of. Rada has feelings for Ponko's cousin but when she brings some money she has won at a game to him, she learns that he made a deal with Ponko to take care of her while he is in prison. She tries to get out of the vicious circle of crime but fails to do so. The corrupt world of blurred concepts of good and evil has engulfed them all and turned them into predators and victims of its poison.
A famous metropolitan journalist decides to pay a surprise visit to his classmate Pancho in the countryside. Pancho has gone to town and his wife has to greet the guest. Under the curious eyes of the neighbors, the two are waiting for him to come back home. The awkwardness between them intensifies. How will they sleep under one roof? What will people say?
Vesa's Father
Vesa, a 16-year old Bulgarian girl, cannot speak. A fortune-teller predicts that the girl will convalesce if somebody sacrifices their life for her. The fortune-teller's mentally challenged nephew, who comes to hear the prophecy, follows the girl.
