Kyustendil, a city in the Bulgarian mountains, was hit hard by Covid. The local hospital is probably a reasonably representative microcosm of how the medical staff dealt with the worst consequences of the pandemic. Ten years after his debut “Sofia’s Last Ambulance” (DOK Leipzig 2012), Ilian Metev returns with another film about a national health system that opposes the virus wi...
在遭遇车祸一个月后，登山家和动物学家博扬 彼得罗夫继续向梦想迈进：攀登全部14座8,000米的山峰，目前已完成其中的10座。他的下一个目标是世界最高峰——珠穆朗玛峰。为此，博扬开始了他的“热身”之旅，攀登珠其中海拔最低的希夏邦马峰。在攀登的过程中，意外导致他在山峰下失 踪。一场空前的跨国救援，在尼泊尔、中国和保加利亚之间展开。
In the 90s Bulgaria joined the Eastern Bloc's race for freedom. But as thousands flooded the streets calling for democracy the shadows were giving birth to criminal enterprise. And before anyone could realise, the criminals had taken over the new 'democratic' society. The street gangs dominated, a steel hand of fear was forced on the population. And freedom had come to Bulgaria...
Two Roma teenagers, Tsvetan (18) and Nasko (13) are friends. They live in the poorest region of Europe. Two years ago Tsvetan and the Bulgarian girl Albena (16) stood on railway tracks in front of an on-coming train because their love was impossible. Albena died and presently, Tsvetan thanks God for the new lease of life he was given. Nasko is depressed because his mother has a...
NO PLACE FOR YOU IN OUR TOWN pulls us into the heads of the football hooligans from the most hostile city in Bulgaria — Pernik. Once a flourishing mining centre, today all that’s left here are jokes about its citizens’ roughness — an echo of their brave and glorious past. Having exclusive access to the inhabitants, Nikolay Stefanov’s film follows Tsetso, a skinhead and single f...
Through the personal fate of the Bulgarian dissident Grigor Bozhilov Simov, one of the founders of our Human Rights Association, there transpire the processes that went on beneath the surface of events making of Bulgaria what she is today. What has happened Why did it happen the way it did The years spent in prison, the repeated internments, the struggle for human rights, the...
皮林是保加利亚一处僻静的山村，大自然的蔓延使得那里的人烟日渐稀少。如今仅剩的130位居民多为寡妇或单身汉。大多数年轻人选择移居西欧，寻求更好的生活。影片把目光投向了那些留下的人：努力改变村庄命运的村长，忍受着不可避免的衰落的牧羊人，试图守护无法留存之物的寡妇，以及传说中徘徊在村庄上方等待时机的神龙。
Ivan, 58, is a seagull, a Bulgarian ladies’ man hooking up with female tourists at a Sunny Beach resort. He has done this for forty years, ever since the Communist times. Ivan wants to settle down, but that’s not so easy for an old Seagull. He’s got no savings and the pandemic makes things even more difficult: there are no tourists. Ivan supports himself by washing cars and win...
PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE tells the stories of the most emblematic five buildings of socialist times - highly representative for the epoch and witnessing the historical turbulence in Eastern Europe in the second half of the XX century. The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Moscow State University, Palace of the Parliament in Bucharest, Palace of Serbia in Belgrade, Palace of the...
“In Sofia, the residents of a mythical building had been evicted. I had come to hunt for film locations.” After this brief introductory title card, we discover what makes this Bulgarian building mythical, why its residents were evicted and how location-hunting turned into a film, as Bojina Panayotova seems to have experienced it: like a sudden burst of enthusiasm that tips real...
We have witnessed how a roma baby Ilya was left by his mum for an international adoption in 1993. 20 years later the young Frenchman came to Bulgaria to visit his mother and his seven brothers and sisters. An emotional film for the collision of cultures. Other Bulgarian children found parents abroad while shooting "The Long Way Home".
《好邮差》（The Good Postman） 导演：托尼斯拉夫·赫里斯托夫（Tonislav Hristov） 芬兰/保加利亚
入围2017年圣丹斯电影节世界纪录片单元
