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- After a dark force conquers Canterlot, the Mane 6 embark on an unforgettable journey beyond Equestria where they meet new friends and exciting challenges on a quest to use the magic of friendship to save their homeland.
- Set in early 19th century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
- Plyontek, a boy with problems, is sent to a sanitarium where it appears the patients make the rules.
- A woman who trains police horses adopts her second child, a severely traumatised 5-year-old girl. When the girl shows violent and anti-social behaviour, her new mother becomes determined to help her.
- The film sends us to the 17th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their little girl, Maria. Karaivan decides to take the law into his own hands and becomes enslaved by his violent wish for revenge. He burns their house with his wife's body inside and abandons the gentle life they had shared, choosing instead to take his daughter to live in a rough hut high in the hills. He raises Maria as a boy, training her to fight so that she can kill in cold blood and help her father avenge her mother's murder. Nine years pass before the two locate and kill three of the four perpetrators. At each body they leave a goat horn as the symbol of their revenge. While on a mission to kill the last one at his rich oriental house, Maria becomes the unwitting witness of a love scene and change comes over her. Now, from time to time she secretly dons a beautiful women dress and exults in her newly found femininity. She falls in love with young shepherd and the hate begins to melt from her heart. When Karaivan discovers the change that is taking place in her it is already late. He tries to bring Maria back to him and their life of revenge, with disastrous results.
- Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world - the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of freedom draws the map of a diabolical city full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets and a bizarre parade of characters.
- A film director goes back to the place where he was born to shoot a film about his father - a resistance hero. The childhood memories prove painful, the meetings with the old friends, who have changed beyond recognition, are a distressing experience. After the director sees how the time has been ruined their lives, he realizes he is never going to make the film about his father...
- The 1960s was the time of Beatles and Rolling Stones, the time of sexual revolution. These events have their echo in Bulgarian English-learning school. The school order provokes a protest of the students due to the narrow-minded teachers.
- German construction workers building a dam near a Bulgarian village interact with the locals, and soon the troubles arise both with the locals and among themselves.
- Year 2004, operation Iraqi freedom. Iraqi rebels loyal to Shiite leader Muqtada Al-Sadr, launched an insurgency. Karbala City Hall is cut off, leaving inside 40 Poles and 40 Bulgarian soldiers with supplies of food and ammo to 24h fight.
- Roman returns to the land he has just inherited from his grandfather. Fully decided to sell this vast but desolate property, he is warned by the local cop that his grandfather was a local crime lord and his men will not let go of the land..
- A family full of women in a society where "gender" is not a familiar word.
- In the far north, Sedna and Nanook dream of bringing back their family together. After Sedna's death, Nanook walks a long way to find his daughter Ága, who ran away years ago.
- Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany of not always lawful ventures. Beyond the motion and romance of the water, Hayat's life is harsh and unrelenting.
- A concert to celebrate Bulgaria joining the EU is being planned at the Embassy in London and it is the job of VARADIN, the new ambassador, to ensure the Queen attends. But with corrupt staff, criminal gangs operating out of the kitchen, falling in love with a stripper and a little misunderstanding with a PR firm that provides look-alike royalties - his simple task turns into a chaotic nightmare.
- A police inspector frames an innocent boy as terrorist, but is later forced to conspire with his victim as both create an intricate web of lies to steal money from the incompetent government bodies.
- A journey across Europe to question each person's rights to bodily autonomy.
- Athens, 2004 summer Olympic Games. 11-year-old Misha arrives from Russia to live with his mother, Sofia. What he doesn't know is that there is a father waiting for him there. While Greece is living the Olympic dream, Misha will get violently catapulted into the adult world, riding on the dark side of his favorite fairy tales.
- A wife of a Bulgarian Army officer falls in love with a Serbian prisoner at the end of World War I.
- Obsessed by Hamlet's tragic character since adolescence, writer-producer Stanislav Semerdjiev ventures to write and stage a new post-modern monological version of the famous plot at the peak (8000 feet) of the most mysterious Bulgarian mountain. For the implementation of his crazy dream he gathers a multinational team of 70 and secures the rights for music from the cult composer Mark Snow (X-Files, Millenium, Smallville). After nine years of ordeals the desperate bunch surprisedly finds out that the "mission impossible" has actually lead them to a new understanding of the meaning of life, both similar and opposite to that of Hamlet.
- The life of a man at the ages of eight, eighteen, and eighty-two
- Storyline guide us through forbidden love of Gypsy boy, trumpet player, and Serbian girl, daughter of famous trumpet player. The bet is made: if the boy "outplays" girl's father at Gucha festival, he'll take the girl for his wife. From that point on, we are faced with the boy's path to win Gucha festival. This is nice, simple love story, placed behind the scenes of a big festival. It will joy up the viewer, without big intentions. Watching it, the one can feel cultural difference between Serbian and Gypsy folks and to see one of the biggest folk festivals in Serbia.
- 9 situations where people are pushed to react, but they are confused, scared or too busy. 9 viewpoint towards an absurd world, in which people are like a dead dolphin - and nobody knows how to take care of it.
- Young pianist Mila prepares for an audition abroad. Her brother Niki distracts her with his unwanted talent for the absurd. Their astrophysicist father Todor seems incapable of dealing with his children's anxieties.
- Close to bankruptcy, Irena, the owner of a struggling pig farm in a tiny post-Communist town finds a surprising benefactor in a handsome American man who appears to be the answer to all her prayers.
- In a dystopian post-communist world, Constantine and his father Atanas share a small flat in a run-down apartment block. A tragic accident has disturbed gravity on Earth beyond repair, so everyone weighing less than 120 kilos flies up into space. With only 60kg body weight, Constantine cannot go outside, nor does he want to. Stuck in the flat, at the mercy of the electrical mood swings of a household gravitational normalizer, Constantine leads an almost normal life. He is content spending the days looking at the world through his window. Until the beautifully plump stewardess moving in next door changes everything.
- Kalin (35) is a talented advertising specialist, weary of life. Bilyana (35) is a free spirit, still uncertain of what she wants. They grew up in Socialist Bulgaria, where they were part of a mad group of friends, for whom every day was a different adventure. Childlike, they had a pact to get married. The two of them meet 25 years later.
- Friends of different generations, practicing different professions, spend together their summer holidays at the seaside every year. It is sunny; they look carefree and happy. They know each other very well, they are used to each other. To such an extent, that bore becomes inevitable. It is boredom that incites them to play a dangerous game. The end is dramatic: a young boy gets killed. It is the moment to draw the bottom line. The question is: Isn't the death of the spirit worse than of the body?
- In order not to miss the chance to have a child of her own, the courageous but lonely investigative journalist Anna decides to become pregnant from a donor.
- In 651, Khan Kubrat died and the Khazars accelerated their raids upon Great Bulgaria. His five sons split the Bulgarian tribe and each led his to find new land where they could live in peace. Khan Asparukh, the youngest son, went west and, after an arduous journey lasting for years, southward across the River Danube, into Moesia. In 680-81, in alliance with the Slavs, he inflicted stunning defeats on the Roman legions and forced the Byzantine Empire to recognize the formation of the new state of Bulgaria in the lands where it still exists today.
- Financial upheaval forces a teenage deaf girl, Valmira 16, to leave her progressive Athens school and return to her father's struggling island where she is confronted by the danger of prejudice and intolerance, most shockingly -- her own.
- Bay Ganyo is the national anti-hero. He personifies arrogance, insolence, greediness, and the absolute incapability to adopt any civilization principles of relationships. This protagonist was featured by great Bulgarian writer Aleko Konstantinov in the end of 19 c., both with an incredible sense of humor and anguish.
- A film about the last days of six women - six political prisoners. Each of them expects the coming execution in her own way. A film about human deeds under extreme circumstances.
- Toni is a little girl who has no father, and her mother leaves her on the street, having fun with her next guest. Tony seeks salvation in the studio of the artist Philip. But Philip has his own life and problems. Parents of neighborhood children are afraid that Tony is a bad influence on their descendants. They want to send Tony to boarding school. Is it better for the girl?
- A freedom-loving young woman falls in love with a young ship builder worker. He recognizes she lacks stability in her life and decides to hire her on his team of workers. In the beginning, she is happy, but soon starts to feel the tensions between the workers on the team. She becomes disgusted by the mismatch between the official party line and the actual atmosphere at work. She sees the way everyone lies to themselves, and cannot ignore the hollow nature of party slogans their false pathos. The company manager, at first eager to use her as PR, wants her fired so he can restore order in the work team. Her boyfriend who hired her on the team resists firing her and argues with the boss over this decision. He proposes marriage to her, but she escapes so she can live life on her terms - with complete honesty and without compromise.
- The story begins with a serious disillusionment experienced by a young girl at her school-leaving farewell ball. Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party. The generation gap is a wide one, but Bella falls sway to his intelligence, friends, his life-style and the respect everybody shows for her. Boyan is an actor and comic impersonator. The complex relationships among the three characters hover between friendship and love and involve certain professional motifs. The architect, an even-tempered man, is dispirited because the bold design decisions he has been taking have been regularly rejected. The overly playful actor surrounded by dummies and stage-pros, builds his life exclusively on outer effects. But deep inside he is sad because he knows that he has no real talent. Bella, unexpectedly mature for her age, cannot remain indifferent to the falsehoods and the indifferent attitude to life. She is in conflict with her own mother - a shallow television journalist. Bella's unconscious protest finds its real bearings only when she gets a glimpse of anti-fascist past of the architect who is already infatuated with her. At the end, she marries his best friend, Boyan, though Apostol would be the most important person in her lifetime. The film is notable for the vivid symbolism of its imagery. The swimming pool is not only the place of the action but also a metaphor of human life.
- Margarit and Margarita are high school senior students. They are madly in love. And so proud and independent that they are often in trouble with their parents and teachers. They quit school to live life their own way, only to face a world or corruption and brutality. Margarit would make no compromise and would not get involved in a game with shady rules. Margarita is more willing to do so in the name of their future together. A big manager takes her under his wing and shows himself to be a corrupt womanizer. Margarit cannot stand the debauchery of their 'protector' and kills him. After his sentence he puts an end to his life and unable to live her life this way, so does Margarita.
- "Goodbye Mama" is an intense female family drama, that deals with the lives of four women (a mother, two daughters, a grandmother), their conflicts, social barriers, and the abandonment of the elderly. It is a difficult story that, by entering into the heart of family relationships, where a persons happiness or pain is determined, uncovers truths that are hard to accept, such as a mother who feels no loves for her child, or a child who decides to abandon their parent. The story of Maria, Teodora, Jana, Elena over four decades, from the 60s to the present day. Set in Bulgaria, the story begins in the winter of 2005. Teodora, 19, receives a phone call from her sister Elena, 34, who asks her to go and visit their grandmother Maria, 81, who is suffering from Alzheimers, and has been abandoned by her daughter Jana, 56, in a state nursing home. When Teodora arrives at the home, she is horrified at how the old people are treated. Checking on the internet, she discovers that her grandmother has been admitted to an institute with one of the highest mortality rates in the country. To Teodora and Elena it is clear from the outset that their mother Jana wants to get the old woman out of the way so she can take possession of her house. The granddaughters set out to rescue the old woman. After various legal battles, Elena and Teodora manage to get custody of their grandmother Maria, they transfer her to a private nursing home in Sofia, and thus save her life. To understand the four characters motives the film goes back in time to investigate their lives. With Jana we start in the 60s, when her dreams are shattered and she breaks with her family. Barred from the Bulgarian national volleyball team for misconduct, kicked out of her home by her adoptive father, deeply hurt by the indifference of her mother who does not utter a single word in her defence, Janas heart hardens and she becomes a wicked, unscrupulous woman. With Elena, instead, we start in the last years of the Communist regime, when the Berlin Wall still divided Europe geographically and mentally. Tormented by her mother, the bane of her life, abandoned by her beloved father, at the age of just 17 she will attempt suicide. She will leave Bulgaria to go to Italy, taking with her only her profound love for her little sister of 4. The money she manages to save is sent to her mother, so that she can spare Teodora what she suffered as a girl. Despite Elenas sacrifices, Teodora will still not be immune to her mothers rages. The love that unites the two girls will give them the strength to defeat the ghosts of the past and open their hearts to the dreams and hopes of a new life.
- With Georgia's capital under siege in 1992, unemployed film director NIKA sees a unique opportunity to escape the ravages of civil war. A former studio bear CHOLA has been invited to retire at the Berlin Zoo, and NIKA and his former stuntman TOMA can accompany Chola on the long journey. But the war again impinges on the two friends as Nika's films are burned in an attack that also leaves their beloved bear dead. With no other options, Nika hits on an outrageous solution: he'll disguise himself in a bear suit and travel as Chola to Berlin. They sneak through Turkey, the Balkans and Eastern Europe to, finally, Berlin, encountering soldiers, police, a mystic soothsayer, drug dealers and gangsters along the way - oh, and a fiery red-headed French Canadian animal rights activist who joins them to ensure the well-being of 'Chola!' It's a journey fraught with obstacles - some comic, some tragic, some both - in which the motley band of travellers learn that hope, love and freedom are as fragile as they are elusive.
- This is an animated series of 13 episodes. Each of them begins like this: a mother rides her child in a stroller; she meets a friend and both start chatting. The child gets out of the stroller and gets into the most amazing places. This causes chaos in the adult world. At the end of each episode, the child returns to the stroller, and the mother finally ends her conversation.
- Rosemary is a young fairy who thinks the life of fairies is really boring. She therefore wants to become a witch. Since her mother strongly opposes Rosemary's wish, Rosemary decides to pack her bags and leave for the witch forest.
- 11 short satiric stories about the marvelous misadventures of The Three Fools created and directed by the Bulgarian cartoonist Donyo Donev. The first episode was released in 1970 and the last one in 1990.
- Two German-Jewish children flee Nazi Germany in the early 1940s and try to escape to Palestine via Bulgaria. When their uncle dies during the journey, they are taken in by a troupe of travelling performers.
- Growing old is an art in itself, How difficult is it to cast off the habits and perceptions of lifetime to keep up with the demands of a new age? In this New Age, is everything permitted?
- A single mother, wanting to protect her eight-year-old son from pain, lies to him that his dad is away with the Antarctic expedition. But postponing the confession about the father's death, causes damage to her and her son.
- Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery.
- We are all a little pieces of the great JIGSAW PUZZLE. And there is only one that fits to other... we look for it and find the same...we try to put it, but... it is the same but not the right one... there left an empty space. Can we rewrite our destiny? Can we overcome the last barrier... death?