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- The film is a funny, dramatic and tragicomic search for the truth about a Song. A Song that everybody in the Balkans claims it is theirs.A Song that appears as a love song, as a religious hymn and even as a song inciting for battle. An exciting journey around Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria. A film showing with a sense of humor some of the typical features of the character of the people on the Balkans, as for example their habit of appropriating all that is good and denying the others the right to possess the same qualities, the same songs, the same customs, the same temperament.
- This story of love and separation takes place in the surreal world of 1960s communist Albania. As told by survivors of this extraordinary period, Divorce Albanian Style reveals the experience of the many thousands of families that were forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hoxha, the longest-serving European dictator of the 20th century. Near the height of his mania, in 1961 Enver Hoxha broke off Albania's relations with the Soviet Union. Albanian men married to foreign women were forced by the state to split from their wives - women from all over Eastern Europe - who were subsequently expelled. The official reason was alleged espionage. Hojda quickly created a mechanism to deal with those who refused to leave. KGB-trained secret police collected "evidence", minor clerks became "investigators", carpenters were made into prosecutors and labor camps expanded. The women who stayed - and their husbands - spent years in prisons, the last released in 1987. Divorce Albanian Style tells the stories of three of these couples, and of the apparatchiks and officers of the secret police who changed their lives forever.
- The film tells the story of Engineer Ivan Ivanov, the longest-ruling and most successful mayor of Sofia, who was in office in the most turbulent times from 1934 through 1944. During his terms, Sofia was known as the "Little Brussels" and the "Vienna of the Balkans". The Mayor is a documentary about the dramatic and extraordinary life of a person who preserved his morals and dignity despite all hardships and vicissitudes he had to endure. However, this film is not simply a depiction of the life story of an exceptional character. It also focuses on the role of the individual against the backdrop of major historical events. It delves into the issues of what price has to be paid for withholding one's personal choice and whether it is possible to abide by one's principles in a time when this may turn into an excessive burden.
- The film is a story about custom whose origins are hidden far back in the past, Here, in the village of Sushitsa, this custom has almost completely preserved its authenticity and can still be seen as it was performed centuries ago. This is a film about the small village and its inhabitants, about an ancient tradition that they have preserved almost intact to this day, and about a friendship - as undying as the tradition itself.
- A story about a fighter pilot who became a hero and has been used by nationalists and fascists in Bulgaria. In an air raid above Sofia in WW2 Spisarevski crashed his airplane into an American bomber and died a hero. Charming, as handsome as Apollo, women's favorite, a bruiser, a fascist? Who was he? The film shows how a hero is created, how history is made and this is used by the aggressive nationalism.
- Born From the Ashes is a film about a particular community - the Roma living in the villages near the mountainous town of Tvarditsa in Bulgaria; about the difficulties these people overcome, and the sacrifices they make while striving to achieve their goal - to preserve their identity while accepting the terms of contemporary civilisation and taking up the challenges it sends to them.
- Silence with Dignity is a documentary about the life and work of the famous Bulgarian film directors, the family of Irina Aktasheva and Hristo Piskov. It is a story about their emblematic films and of those whose realization was banned, the criteria according to which a film was classified as "too dangerous" under communism, the mechanisms of censorship, their persistence and creative survival and their silence charged with dignity. The film reveals unknown details of the history of Bulgarian cinema and the link between the political elite and the intellectuals at the time.