Contemporary Bulgarian documentary cinema, viewed from a few different perspectives, is at high standards. It is both stable in terms of the amount of …
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Gripping. Colourful. Many-sided. Surprising. Charming. Funny. Naïve. Frightening. Mysterious. Breath-stopping. Magical. Spectacular. Beautiful. Dangerous. Kind. Unexpected. Swirly. Shining. Lavish. Stopping the heart beating. Different. …
On 1 March, the Synthesis gallery and the Bulgarian National Film Archive launched an exhibit of photographic portraits of Bulgarian actors, taken during the …
The full-length feature film Cat in the Wall (Bulgaria/UK/France) by Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova (production: Actvist 38) surprisingly received the national Golden Rose Debut …
’Europudding’ is a derisive term of the mid-1990s describing well-funded, but commonplace European film …
My friend Zlatin Radev told me once how uneasy he felt while watching a theatrical performance for fears of a gaffe or of a …
The monograph Short-form Films: Advantages and Challenges. Models and Practices of Bulgarian Short Films …
A reservation to begin with: I think that there is no harm to art in a well-calculated dose of bad taste. A recent good …
Moving Stills at Synthesis Gallery (12 March–8 April) is a mixed event combining a photo exhibition and screenings of documentaries by curator of photography …
The documentary Walking on Water about The Floating Piers installation by Christo and Jeanne-Claude was selected to open Sofia Iinternational Film Festival 2019. This …
Without fuss or media coverage, a photo exhibition opened before the central entry to the National Palace of Culture, Sofia on 4 October 2018 …
An exhibition of photographs, An Account of Nessebar, by architect Nikolay Popov (1914–1973) opened on 4 June 2018, ay Synthesis Gallery. Taken in 1957–1965, …
The book Bulgarian Jews: Living History by Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Imanuel Marcus was published in spring 2018 by Shalom Organization of the Jews in …
Making no fuss or launching promotion campaigns, the Looking into the Times exhibition by photographer Ivan Grigorov opened doors on 10 November 2017 at …
An open human mouth by Spanish photographer Cristina García Rodero is a common thread running through and binding together her b & w photographs …
Usually, the topic of minority or majority Bulgarian co-productions is unfailingly broached at discussions and roundtables. Typically though, such issues are always hovering at …
Along with Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the star of yet another brilliant film director rose in the 1990s Iran, whose work helped to …
Musiz Foundation’s Contemporary Bulgarian Photography exhibition staged in collaboration with VIVACOM, Sofia Municipality and Archives State Agency kicked of on 20 March at the …
Glory by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov continues the trilogy started with The Lesson. And is definitely better, too. May this trend be sustained …
I will spare readers further repetition by beginning this text with sketching out the key topics broached on several occasions during the festival and …
