Border Cafe, 2005, 105 min
Directed by Kambuzia Partovi
Greek, Persian, Turkish language, Bulgarian and English subtitles
An independently minded Iranian widow and mother flouts tradition by re-opening her late husband's Europe/Asia border cafe despite rigid social standards that explicitly discourage her from doing so. Isolated from her friends and neighbours for her headstrong efforts to get the business back on its feet, Reyhan also faces pressure from her conservative brother-in-law Nasser, who longs to take Reyhan as his second wife as permitted by custom.

The Commitments, 1991, 118 min
Directed by Alan Parker
English language, Bulgarian subtitles
An intentionally "small" movie that treats a well-known subject - young people making a rock band - and achieves impressive intimacy. The end result is a rough, naturalistic comedy with an ironic and loving view of the rivalry and ambitions of young bands and the absurd situations they fall into.

Harvest Time, 2004, 68 min
Directed by Marina Razvezhkina
Russian language, English and Bulgarian subtitles
The year is 1950. The beautiful Antonia works as a combine-operator in the kolkhoz of a small Chouvak village. To reward her hard work, the state awards her the Red Flag Order. The order, however, brings the family many worries - a mice invasion threatens to turn the precious family relic into a rag.

The State Councilor, 2005, 125 min
Directed by Filipp Yankovsky
Russian language, Bulgarian and English subtitles
The film is set during the days of the 19th century Russian empire. The state-governor of Siberia is killed in the ministerial wagon of the express train travelling from Petersburg to Moscow. Suspicions fall on Fandorin, the governor's guard. Catching the real murderers becomes a matter of honour for Fandorin.

Tin Drummer, 1979, 142 min
Directed by Volker Schlundorff
German language, Bulgarian subtitles
Danzig in the 1920s/1930s. Oskar Matzerath, son of a local dealer, is a most unusual boy. Equipped with full intellect right from his birth, he decides at his third birthday not to grow up as he sees the crazy world around him at the eve of World War II. So he refuses society and his tin drum becomes a symbol of his protest against the middle-class mentality of his family and neighbourhood. They stand for all passive people in Nazi Germany at that time. However, (almost) nobody listens to him, so the catastrophe goes on...

Midnight Express, 1978, 121 min
Directed by Alan Parker
English and Turkish language, Bulgarian subtitles
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the Midnight Express.

Takeshi's, 2005, 106 min
Directed by Takeshi Kitano
Japanese language, English and Bulgarian subtitles
Beat Takeshi lives the busy and sometimes surreal life of a showbiz celebrity. One day he meets his blond look-alike named Kitano, a shy convenience store cashier, who, still an unknown actor, is waiting for his big break. After their paths cross, Kitano seems to begin hallucinating about becoming Beat.

Earthenware, 1984, 37 min
Directed Nikolay Volev
Bulgarian language
The Bulgarian village of Trun is more famous for its ceramics in Japan than in Bulgaria. Although it is hundreds of kilometres away from Saltsburg, Vienna and Prague, it has something truly European in it - two of the local potters are just like Mozart and Salieri.

Home No 8, 1987, 30 min
Directed Nikolay Volev
Bulgarian language
The children with mental difficulties from Home No 8 in Gorna Bania rehearse a musical and gymnastics programme for June 1. During the endless rehearsals, the contradictions between the pedagogues' absurd idea about peace and happiness and the daily round in the social house become clear.

Emergency Assistance, 1999, 36 min
Directed Nikolay Volev
Bulgarian language
The 24-hour work round of people in the Emergency Unit is more than banal. The unusual thing, however, is that laughter is often heard around: the bitter laughter of one of the lowest-paid servants of Hippocrates.

The Eternal Lover, 1999, 38 min
Directed Nikolay Volev
Bulgarian language
Stefcho is 82 years old. He is a virtuoso performer of Italian concertos. He plays the guitar. He dyes his hair and moustaches with Aroma No 3. He doesn't miss a single movie and is a passionate collector. His richest collection, however, is made up of his countless love stories.

A Report from Kremikovtsi, 1999, 29 min
Directed by Nikolay Volev
Bulgarian language
The metallurgy plant in Kremikovtsi, fruit of the lively friendship between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union, was the pride of Bulgarian economy until not long ago. After the plant started declining in 1989, an unemployed man from the plant started to make unique sculptures from the machine elements strewn about the yard, and to draw impressive frescos on the crumbling workshop walls. 

A Winter's Tale, 1999, 32 min
Directed Nikolay Volev
Bulgarian language
The eternal theme of love is more than unnecessary for the few aging inhabitants of a backwater mountain village.

Four Women, Barefoot, 2005, 90 min
Directed by Santiago Loza
Spanish language, Bulgarian subtitles
Four women who are looking for their place in the world gather to share their fears, hopes and faith. What they find is much more than friendship and mutual trust - the simple pride of being alive.

24 Realities per Second, 2006, 45 min
Directed by George Kunchev
Buglarian language, English subtitles
A portrait of the Bulgarian football star Krassimir Balakov. Shot over 15 years, the film reveals the wandering and growth of a boy on his way to proving himself in a grand way. 

The Big Question, 2004, 78 min
Directed by Francesco Cabras, Alberto Molinari
English and Italian language, English and Bulgarian subtitles
What are the first existential queries that lead us to question the absolute and consult teachers, parents, priests or older siblings? "The Big Question" is based on an idea that is very simple yet rather complex: it poses extremely direct questions to a large and varied group of people regarding their own intimate perception of the divine. The peculiar microcosm, a surprising sociological container, is the backdrop where these inquiries take place; it is actually a 'non-place' par excellence: the set of 'The Passion of the Christ' by Mel Gibson.

Wolf-Hunt, 1993, 69 min
Directed by Zlatina Rousseva
Russian and English language, Bulgarian subtitles
A thoughtful examination of what we looked for, expected, what freedom meant for us while we listened to Vysotsky, and what things turned out to be in reality. 

Portrait of a Man of Power, 1991, 58 min
Directed by Zlatina Rousseva
Bulgarian and English language, English subtitles
The film crosses the paths of traitors and victims and reveals the system of rumours, denunciations, fear and surveillance that was worked to perfection by security services during the time of Todor Zhivkov. The Todor Zhivkov court case is a motivation to go back and rethink a whole epoch. The film also rethinks of the role of Todor Zhivkov by portraying him as a dexterous puppeteer behind the mask of "a man of the people".

Starshela, 2006, 47 min
Directed by Blagomir Aleksiev-Miro
Bulgarian language
A movie like this cannot be shot using a script. You just meet the Starshela and you go shoot. It's a movie about the ambition to fulfill your dreams and remain true to them afterwards.

Total Denial, 2006, 74 min
Directed by Milena Kaneva
English language, Bulgarian subtitles
In Burma, a country under military dictatorship where genocide is part of the daily round, a gas pipeline is being built in a joint venture between two world companies. The project is carried out through forced exploitation of villagers. 

Pink Floyd The Wall, 1982, 95 min
Directed by Alan Parker
English language, Bulgarian subtitles
The movie tells the story of rock singer "Pink" who is sitting in his hotel room in Los Angeles, burnt out from the music business and only able to perform on stage with the help of drugs. Based on the 1979 double album "The Wall" by Pink Floyd, the film begins in Pink's youth where he is crushed by the love of his mother. Several years later, he is punished by the teachers in school because he starts to write poems. Slowly he begins to build a wall around himself to protect himself from the world outside. The film shows all this in massive and epic pictures until the very end where he tears down the wall and breaks free.

Six Eight One, 2005, 80 min
Directed by Yani Yanev
Bulgarian language, English subtitles
Six Eight One is a film-museum about the historical pride and cultural identity of the Bulgarian nation. Тhe music, which is especially composed for the film, and the 3D animation effects, revive emblematic symbols of Bulgarian culture and statehood.

Mechkar, 2005, 30 min
Directed by Albin Biblom
English language, Bulgarian subtitles
After the pressure of two animal protection organisations to build a park for dancing bears, the traditional Roma profession that has been passed from father to son for 1000 years, is on its way to extinction.

The Black Notebook of Zinaida Gyppius, 1997, 90 min
Directed by Zlatina Rousseva
Russian and English language, Bulgarian subtitles
The Russian revolution, seen and told day by day by one of the most interesting Russian poetesses Zinaida Gyppius. A woman with an incredible talent and sharp analytical mind, she writes down all events the way she feels and experiences them inside her diary.

Millions, 2004, 98 min
Directed by Danny Boyle
English language, Bulgarian subtitles
A five-year-old finds a bag of pounds and has a few days to spend them before the currency is switched to Euro.

Dear Frankie, 2004, 105 min
Directed by Shona Auerbach
English language, Bulgarian subtitles
After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.

Evita, 1996, 134 min
Directed by Alan Parker
English language, Bulgarian subtitles
The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Peron, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Invisible, 2005, 89 min
Directed by Konstantin Bojanov
Bulgarian language, English subtitles
The film follows the three-year journey of ups and downs, dreams and afflictions of six young heroin addicts.

As it is in Heaven, 2004, 132 min
Directed by Kay Pollak
Swedish language, English and Bulgarian subtitles
A successful international conductor suddenly interrupts his career and returns to his childhood village in Norrland, in the far north of Sweden. It doesn't take long before he is asked to come and listen to a church choir, which practices every Thursday in the parish hall. He can't say no, and from that moment on, nothing in the village is the same. The choir grows. He makes both friends and enemies. He finds a new love.

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