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...
November 1988: Berlin's Theater der Westens lends its stage to the first-ever European Film Awards. With the statuette for Best Film in hand, Krzysztof Kieślowski modestly addresses the anxiety in the...
The theme of success is a useful prism to observe the shortcomings and achievements of Bulgarian cinema in recent years. Most of all, their content can be analysed through it and this can turn out to...
Recently, two feature films have appeared on the Bulgarian cinema scene - Aga (2018) by Milko Lazarov and Letters from Antarctica (2019) by Stanislav Donchev. The former became one of the most frequen...
Around the middle of German Lessons by Pavel G. Vesnakov, just as we have begun to realize that Nikola's (Julian Vergov) resolve to leave Bulgaria is increasingly shaken, a parallel with a comple...
One of the most memorable scenes in this film unfolds in the street. Danny, a boss in a provincial town, suited up and overexcited by alcohol, self-love or another drug, suddenly decides to show...
A historic misadventure happened to the film Ashes over Sun. It was released at a time when its main theme - the negative attitude of the media and society towards doctors - was left behind. The pande...
Yet аnother comedy by director Nikolay Iliev, Reunion turned out to be the most watched film of 2019. Since almost no films were produced in 2020, this may turn out to be a historic success....
Irina Aktasheva (1931-2018) and Hristo Piskov (1927-2009) met during their student years in Moscow. They married, came to Bulgaria, became directors, and became friends with some of the most interesti...
The movie “Heights” is an adaption of Milen Ruskov’s novel by the same name.
It has been adapted a little more faithfully to the original than necessary in order to ensure the m...
Recently, while I was waiting for the bus at minus 100 degrees Celsius, a ragged lady with a crazy smile asked to borrow my phone. For a homebody like me, it was a rare opportunity to stand so clo...
There always looms some sort of secret around every crime. Often when the truth is unveiled, it only opens a new chasm of secrets, especially if the crime is on a massive scale. With a couple of h...
I love films that withdraw from the immediate reality and allow themselves the courage to edit, filter and mediate, so that they create a world with its own logic. A world that is shut off like a...
The present review departs from the last line of Neva Micheva’s review on “Glory”, namely her question what happens with storytelling once the living has evolved into doom. The a...
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