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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.
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.
Bori (17) refuses to be harassed by the boys. Her artistic, but unstable mother does not give her the support she needs. Her caring grandfather enrolls her in a judo school. There, she realizes that before beating others, one must win the battles within oneself.
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.
2003 Bulgarian film
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.
A 70-year-old man, former mayor of a village, recalls his life: the difficult post-war years, the forced collectivisation of the land, the migration of the population. He has sacrificed his personal life trying to perform his office conscientiously.
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 a 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.
For the last 17 years, Bulgarian woodcutters have left their families to go and work in the forests of the far north of the soviet union. They have built villages there and set up a social order. The episodes and interviews in this film show us this isolated and little-kown society and help us to understand the individual problems it creates.
A young man attempts to save a prostitute from a prostitution ring. His fury is two-sided: on one hand, it is caused by the futility of honesty, on the other hand, it is caused by the triumphs of treachery.
Three humorous but bitter stories turn into an existential drama in the life of the little people, who must take it all in with dignity and find some sense in the absurdity of it all. The acceptable way to present that is through the means of reality, severity, frankness, concise dialogue and documental simplicity.
Viola tries to gain the respect of her new classmates and experiences her first love.
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...
The story of Omnipresent is centered around Emil, writer and owner of advertising agency who gradually becomes obsessed with spying on his family, friends and employees via hidden spy cameras. What starts as an innocent hobby ends up as a total disaster, as in the process he abuses his new power and eventually comes to realize that some secrets should be left uncovered.
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.
The monotonous existence of the underage residents at the Home for Oligophrenics, designated as No. 8, is marginally diversified by preparations for Children's Day. Marching and gymnastic routines are rehearsed. In instances where the impaired children fail to perform adequately, physical violence is administered. Every effort is made to ensure the institution presents a favorable image to the ministerial superiors. Conversely, these children, disadvantaged by nature, find their own small joys—some enjoy singing, others dancing, and some playing football. However melancholic life at Home No. 8 may appear, it remains a sunlit paradise compared to the destination awaiting everyone who reaches the age of 18: the home for adult oligophrenics No. 6.
The Central Railway Station in Sofia and its permanent guests — the homeless, beggars, prostitutes, and Roma children. Seven of the night dwellers of the underground passageways tell different fairy-tale or tragic stories about themselves, yet none of them complains about their way of life. In the documentary film “Neon Fairy Tales”, the parents of the little Roma children do not drive them into the forest, as in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” but send them to the train station to get rid of them, because they cannot support them. Thus begins the difficult path of survival for homeless children. An inexhaustible source of “resources” are trash bins, sleeping near the warm pipes in the underground tunnels, a small bag of acetone glue, as well as the kindness of merciful people…
Razvodi, razvodi... is a 1989 Bulgarian anthology comedy film that delves into the complexities of marital relationships through a series of five short stories, all centered around the theme of divorce. Each segment offers a unique perspective on the emotional and societal facets of separation, blending satire with poignant human experiences.
