Eldora Traykova
Directing
Known For

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.
Neon Fairytales
A documentary about the life in a gypsy ghetto in Bulgaria. Unemployment among the people reaches up to 90 %. The only hope for some of them is the church. There they pray for miracle to happen. And a miracle has happened. A real prince is coming to the ghetto....
Life in a Ghetto

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…
NEON FAIRY TALES

A documentary about a sighting of unidentified flying objects (UFO) over the Village of Kljuch. Reports from the local priest, as well as some of the residents of the village. Pictures of the UFO can be seen.
UFO Over the Village of Kljuch
Dolni Tsibar is a big village in Bulgaria's northwest, EU's poorest district. 99 % of the villagers are gypsies. Because of the locals' love to learn, the media mockingly called the village 'Romany Cambridge'. The film follows their everyday life during a year.