Valeri Petrov

A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to the communist ideals she became an avid critic of the regime and brought upon herself the wrath of its censorship. As a result four of her nine films were shelved and released to the public only after the fall of the regime in 1989, and Binka Zhelyazkova became known as the bad girl of Bulgarian cinema. A provocative portrait that reveals the pressures and complexities that arise when art is made under totalitarianism.

Stephan is a sculptor. He refuses to do work that compromises his integrity. He has a guardian angel he talks to. We can't see him but we can hear his voice commenting on events Stephan gets involved in. As he crosses paths with the Artist, the Professor, the Director, the Poet, the Musician, the Actress and the Beloved, a world of characters arises to display a whole array of personalities and lives that share the spark of the creative spirit but also the lack of successful career. The voice of the angel reflects upon patronage in art and protecting your talent against corruptive forces, yet not through escapism but by learning the rules of the game.

This is a sensitive film about human solidarity filled with humor and poetry; a bedridden man regales a child with a story about pirates while asking him to fetch some "pills".

1945. Among the rubble from the Sofia bombardment a group of kids with the oldest one being 12, make secret plans for a sea voyage. As it should be done, the plans are devised in a gloomy basement of a destroyed building. The vow "Silence to the death" is said. The main source of the kids is the diary "Magellan". At the same time the kids start to collect donation for the wounded at the front. One day, the money collected by the kids disappears. After numerous doubts and uncertainties, it turns out that the kids do not stole the money. The journey happens in their dreams.

The sculptor Hristo spends years working on his masterpiece - an enormous metal construction, representing the spirit of a modern era. He lives far away from the noise and hassle, in a self-chosen exile by the sea. His difficult faith befalls Lote - the loving and silent wife of the artist. The anglers of the village are compassionate and they help them. One morning guests from the capital arrive. They want to buy the unfinished art piece at any price. The moment is dramatic. The artist wants to finish what he has started but Lote knows that he is possessed by this piece and he will never finish it. One must decide. Hristo is still not sure. Little Patricia came with her parents to visit the artist. Her look turns into a moral judge for the adults. With pain and suffering, Hristo gives his creation away.

Shooting of a picture: to those, familiar with only from the screen, it is a entertainment. So, in a quiet Sofia street, a shooting crew starts their work. Bypassing begin to throng, curious people are looking out of the windows of the surrounding buildings. A scene is being shot of s short dialogue between the protagonists. It goes wrong all the time and is never complete. The mess gets beyond the comical, the true relations between the members of grew show and they do not look that excellent. At long last, the final scene is shot and the street is quiet again.

American filmmakers associated with the mafia are concerned about the great success of Bulgarian films around the world. They decided to send a big spy, Jesse James, to Bulgaria. His task is to blow up the film studios. But the Bulgarian inspector Lokum Shekerov is at his post.

Impersonating a knight is one of the favorite games of nine-year-old protagonist. Now as Don Quixote, now as D'Artagnan he is fighting evil, he is searching for justice and defending the weak. Together with his friends, packed in cardboard armor, they play all day long. As he is playing, however, he unwittingly witnesses the relation between his parents and gradually comes to understand that the world of the adults is far removed from the canons of knightly honor. His parents love him, but never seem to find the time to listen to his concerns. The deceit, corruption and lack of respect in his own family alienate the small boy. The only adult, whom the boy trusts, is his uncle to whom he is attached by a genuine, equal, man-to-man friendship. He takes him to the cinema and theater performances and talks to him like with his peer. Will this sensitive kid ever succeed in building an internal armor against selfishness and rudeness?

On a bright day loudspeakers blare out choral songs which blend with the marches played by brass bands. A light plane scatters leaflets. Everybody stretch out their hands to catch the falling pieces of paper and look up smiling. Several leaflets fly by the wall, which has a memorial plague, fixed on it: "Vaskata, an antifascist resister, died here in 1942."

На залитом солнцем пляже встречаются юноша и девушка. Он – полный оптимизма представитель страны победившего социализма. Она – дочь иностранного физика-ядерщика, которую не оставляют мысли о последствиях гонки вооружений. Их день проходит в остроумных беседах, шутках и взаимных подколках. Но за очарованием и безмятежностью юности темной тенью встает страх за будущее человечества.

A lightning rod is guarding the house roof, but when the lightnings strike, it appears the rod if afraid of them.

О борьбе болгарской молодежи с фашистами, о нежной и верной любви, которая не боится никакой опасности, которой не страшна разлука.

20-е годы прошлого века. На маленьком острове в Черном море размещены 43 политических заключенных. Кроме них и охраны здесь проживают и двое гражданских – вечно пьяный смотритель маяка с маленькой дочерью. Среди самых свободолюбивых и беспокойных узников медленно, но верно зреет план побега. Окончательно он формируется с прибытием на остров нового коменданта тюрьмы капитана Станева. Жестокий садист, он с удовольствием измывается над заключенными, вызывая ответное чувство ненависти. Из-за трагической случайности побег срывается. Планировавшие его смельчаки гибнут один за другим, и тогда один из них, исполнявший в лагере обязанности доктора, решает поднять узников на бунт.

О том, как маленькая девочка Веска первый раз в жизни вышла погулять одна и ушла далеко от дома. Не раз попадала она в рискованное положение, но вокруг было столько добрых, хороших людей и все стремились вернуть девочку домой. Они оберегали её до тех пор, пока Веска не встретила свою маму.

Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan remember their youth and adventures, long battles and amorous adventures, they feel sorry for their Captain de Treville and do not lose sight of their eternal enemy - the Cardinal.

One submarine fairy-tale, in which the matter is about surface things. Friendship, parting, hope... Words, which we have slightly forgotten in our days, but they are important – and this is why we would like to recollect them again. Little Lilly listens from the telephone box on the beach a fairy-tale, which leads her to the seabed. There she meets an ugly monster – the fish Hrilly – and together they start looking for the magic pearl, which: “Shines in the sea of the children’s games a pearl, which