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1) Glory
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Tsanko Petrov, a railroad linesman, finds millions in cash on the train tracks but when he decides to turn the entire amount over to the police Tsanko’s humble reality collides with a bureaucratic and media-obsessed professional world that threatens to destroy his fragile existence.
2) The Lesson
Language
Bulgarian
Description
In a small Bulgarian town, Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher and devoted mother, struggling to keep her life together. Her unemployed, alcoholic husband has secretly spent their mortgage payments on booze, the agency where she translates legal documents for extra cash is going under, and a thief in her class has stolen the last of her money out of her purse. With few options left, Nade turns to a local loan shark for help,...
3) 3 / 4
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Young pianist Mila prepares for an audition abroad. Her brother Niki distracts her with his unwanted talent for the absurd. Meanwhile, their astrophysicist father, Todor, seems incapable of dealing with his children's anxieties. Nominated for the People's Choice Award at the **Toronto International Film Festival.** Winner of the Filmmakers of the Present Award at the **Locarno International Film Festival.** *"A whisper-light family roundelay of carefully...
4) The lesson
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher struggling to keep her life together. With the home she shares with her husband and young daughter on the brink of repossession and no money to her name, Nade resorts to measures her former self, untouched by the realities of economic desperation and moral compromise, would have found depraved.
5) Viktoria
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Follows three generations of women in the final years of the People's republic of Bulgaria and the early years of the new governement. Dreaming of the west, Boryana, determined not to have a child in a communist Bulgaria is blessed with a child. The child, Viktoria, is missing a belly button and declared the country's Baby of the Decade. Boryana takes care of Viktoria until she's 9, and then they push away from each other. Can they be brought together...
Series
Film Movement volume 15, film 8
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Tsanko Petrov, a railroad worker, finds millions of cash on the train tracks. He decides to turn the money over to the police, for which the state rewards him with a new wristwatch that soon stops working. Meanwhile, Julia Staikova, head of the PR department of the Ministry of Transport, loses Petrov's old watch, a family relic. Here starts his desperate struggle to recover both his old watch and his dignity.
7) Fear
Series
Language
Bulgarian
Appears on list
Description
Svetla, a strong-willed widow, lives alone in a small Bulgarian village close to the Turkish border. She has recently lost her job as a teacher due to the lack of families with young children. One day, while hunting in a forest, she encounters an African refugee, Bamba, who is trying to reach Germany, and will bring about a dramatic turn in her life. Reluctantly, she offers him hospitality, but day after day, a bond develops as Bamba learns the language...
8) Liuben
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Victor (27) has a nice life in Madrid with his partner, Jose. However, after returning to his childhood home in the mountains of Bulgaria for his grandfather's funeral, he decides to stay for the summer. While reconnecting with his father and the village way of life, he unexpectedly finds love in the form of Liuben, an 18-year-old Roma boy. Despite their differences, and the conflicts surrounding them, Victor and Liuben find refuge in each other,...
9) 3/4
Language
Bulgarian
Description
Mila is a gifted pianist with a bright future, yet her father pays more attention to the rings of Saturn than to her goals, and her brother tries to distract her with his unwanted talent for the absurd. A portrait of a family, struggling to find meaning during their last summer together.
10) Zift
Language
Bulgarian
Description
They call him 'Moth, ' a hard-luck brawler paroled after serving time for a murder he didn't commit and turned loose into a city decayed by twenty years of Communism. But in an asphalt jungle that makes its own laws, Moth must now battle his way through a cast of killers, con men, agents, outcasts, old partners and his former lover turned ultimate femme fatale. Tonight, one man will stop at nothing to correct the crimes of the past, or die trying....
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