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As a director and a screenwriter, Antonia Milcheva is hard-set on her affinity for short films. Her work has received a prize at Sarajevo IFF, the Jameson Award at Sofia Film Festival, and now, a Golden Rose Award by the eponymous Bulgarian fest...

To return to your childhood home, only to find it empty — ready to be sold off, demolished, and forgotten: “Oh, hidden cries of a mournful stranger, idly recalling mother and homeland.&rdq...

Recently, a John Malkovich-directed play caused an uproar amidst some social fractions in Bulgaria. Discontent over Bernard Shaw’s play, Arms and the Man, which supposedly ridicules Bulgarian so...

Twice Upon a Time in the West was one of the most anticipated Bulgarian films of the year, attracting audience interest mainly because it features Italian silver screen legend Claudia Cardinale....

If memories make us what we are, then our essence is just as fragile and unreliable as our memory. “Before I Forget” poses the question of what happens to us when memories start to fade, a...

The very title of this short movie, with its heart-wrenching brevity and warmth, strikes a chord in every soul. But right from the get-go, and without a flinch of sentimentality, the story begins with...

Pernik, whose weathered folklore has been eclipsed by jokes about tough guys skirting the law, stands at the centre of this movie. Its characters are gifted with all kinds of flaws, but the one thing...

Ecce homo is an exceptionally well-crafted film directed by the up-and-coming filmmaker Dimitar Kutmanov. Within its brief runtime, the work deftly succeeds in outlining and masterfully conveying...

Kamen Kalev's fourth feature film, inspired by his grandfather's life trajectory, is an attempt to portray a life lived, according to the director himself, "not with the mind, but with the heart"; a l...