VARNA:Puzzle tells a story of thirty years of romantic love of a man for the woman in his life.

Scriptwriter and director Ivo Staikov (son of eminent director Ludmil Staikov who in 1981 made the most expensive epic in the history of Bulgarian cinema Khan Asparuh) spent eight years on the script while he was working as director and assistant director for commercials, music videos, and American productions.

VARNA: Mihail Pandoursky’s Incognita, screening in the Bulgarian national competition at the Golden Rose Film Festival is a coproduction with the world famous Marinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. The film is a deeply personal interpretation of Pavel Vezhinov’s novella The Barrier marked by the director’s signature mixture of mystical themes and motifs.

VARNA: Bulgarian film critics called Migration of the Belted Bonito, written, directed and produced by Lyudmil Todorov, “one of the finest comedies of the newest Bulgarian cinema.” The film is one of 13 selected to screen in the national competition of the 2012 Golden Rose Film Festival.

SOFIA: FNE spoke with Irina Kanousheva, acting director of the Bulgarian National Film Center (www.nfc.bg) on the challenges facing the film industry in Bulgaria and how Bulgarian and EU policies on film interact in one of the EU’s newest member s

VARNA: Kristina Nikolova’s debut film Faith, Love and Whisky is an emotional and personal film about a young woman whose life is divided between the US, where she emigrated, and Bulgaria, where she spent her youth.

VARNA: The 91-minute comedy Rapid Reaction Corps directed by Stanislav Donchevshot on HD is appearing in the Bulgarian national competition of the Golden Rose Film Festival, running through 11 October 2012.

VARNA: The Color of the Chameleon, Vladislav Todorov's film adaptation of Zincograph based on his novel, competes in the Bulgarian national competition of the Golden Rose Film Festival, taking place in Varna 5-11 October 2012.

VARNA: July (previously known under the working title Three), fresh from its participation in competition at the Moscow International Film Festival is screening in the Bulgarian national competition of the Golden Rose Film Festival (5-12 October 2012) is a debut filmwritten and directed by Kiril Stankov.

VARNA: I Am You directed by Petar Popzlatev is one of 13 films screening in the national competition of the Golden Rose Film Festival, running through 11 October 2012.

VARNA: Iliya Kostov’s film Sunny Side, which premiered at the 20th International Film Festival“Love is Folly” (www.loveisfolly.ida.bg) where it won the jury’s Special Prize, is screening in the Bulgarian national competition of the Golden Rose Film Festival running through 11 October 2012.