FESTIVALS: Sofia IFF Lineup Announced
SOFIA: The festival programme for the 19th International Sofia Film Festival has been announced. This year Sofia is celebrating 100 years of Bulgarian Cinema. The film festival will gather films,…
FNE at Berlinale 2015: Bulgarian Film in Berlin
Bulgarian coproduction opens the 65th Berlinale
French TV Series Section Zero Shooting in Sofia
SOFIA: The first season of a French futuristic political series Section Zero by the famous TV director Olivier Marchal, has started shooting in Sofia. It is the most expensive French…
Bulgaria Celebrates 100 Years of National Cinema
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s most important governmental institutions and cultural organizations will celebrate the 100th anniversary of Bulgarian cinema today, 13 January, which has been designated as the official Day of Bulgarian…
FESTIVALS: Bulgarian Minority Coproduction to Open the 65th Berlinale
SOFIA: Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night will open the 65th Berlin International Film Festival on February 5. The Spanish-French-Bulgarian coproduction is competing for the Golden Bear.
FNE Country Report 2014: Bulgaria
Political turmoil resulted in the resignation of the country’s cabinet in July, the appointment of a caretaker government in August and early Parliamentary elections in October. Within the year, the…
FNE at Golden Rhyton 2014: The Last Black Sea Pirates Wins the Plovdiv Golden Rhyton
PLOVDIV: The jury of the 21st edition of the Bulgarian national film festival for documentary and animated films Golden Rhyton which ran through 6 December 2014 chose The Last Black…
UNESCO Proclaims Sofia City of Film
SOFIA: Bulgaria’s capital Sofia was officially announced as a City of Film, part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. The Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova, personally presented the official certificate…
FNE at Golden Rhyton 2014: Bulgarian Doc and Animated Films Fest Registers Record Number of Entrants
PLOVDIV: The 21st edition of the most important national film festival for documentary and animated films Golden Rhyton, which kicks off on 1 December 2014 in Plovdiv, will screen over…
FNE at Cinemania 2014: Cinemania Expands into New Theatres
SOFIA: The 28th edition of the annual film fest Cinemania, running in the three biggest Bulgarian towns of Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna, is showing 57 new international hits and auteur…
Vezhdi Rashidov Returns to Lead Bulgarian Ministry of Culture
SOFIA: Sculptor Vezhdi Rashidov was officially announced as Minister of Culture on 7 November 2014 in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. Rashidov was in Borissov’s first cabinet…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: The Judgment Wins the Top Prize in Varna
VARNA: Stefan Komandarev’s The Judgment was awarded the most prestigious Bulgarian award for a feature film at the 32 edition of the Golden Rose Film Festival. Assen Blatechki also received…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Viktoria
VARNA: Scriptwriter/director Maya Vitkova’s film portrays the first decade after the communist era through a story of a girl born with no umbilical cord. Viktoria screens at the Varna Golden…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: The Lesson
VARNA: The Lesson was inspired by the real story of a teacher caught in a bank robbery attempt. Scriptwriters/directors/producers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov focused their debut feature on a…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Bulgarian Rhapsody
VARNA: The first Bulgarian/Israeli coproduction is representing Bulgaria at the Academy Awards nominations for Best Foreign Language Film. Ivan Nichev’s Bulgarian Rhapsody screens in the main competition of the Varna …
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Alienation
VARNA: Bulgarian film critics consider Milko Lazarov’s debut feature Alienation the “creative surprise of 2013“. The film screens in the main competition of the Varna Golden Rose Film Festival (11-17…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Stefan Komandarev’s The Judgment
VARNA: The Judgment is the latest film by internationally acclaimed Bulgarian director Stefan Komandarev. The film screens in the main competition of the Varna Golden Rose Film Festival (11-17 October…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014:Competition: Buffer Zone
VARNA:The 15th feature film directed by the Silver Bear-winner Georgi Djulgerov is inspired by his own life. Buffer Zone screens in the main competition of the Varna Golden Rose Film…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: The Sinking of Sozopol
VARNA: Kostadin Bonev’s third feature film, The Sinking of Sozopol (aka A Town Named Salvation), is “a nostalgic utopia on missing hope, in which a sea engulfs a city“, as…
FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014:Competition: The Petrov File
VARNA: The debut feature of the director/scriptwriter Gueorgui Balabanov was written in collaboration with Jean-Claude Carrière. The Petrov File, a Bulgarian-German coproduction, screens in the main competition of the Varna …
