Brother of the Snail

Parched

2005

Two trains uncontrollably move towards each other within temporal boundaries of a human life. One of them is taking a genial young man to his unforeseen future; he would marry his beloved; have a son; become a brilliant doctor; do his duty and save the live of enemies of the communist regime; get a 20-years sentence for that. Prison would turn out to be an unbearable nightmare; his wife would eventually give in to the tortures of the authorities and seek divorce; this would mean no one to visit him in prison. 15 years without any news about his child, only a snapshot of his family on which the tree of them are smiling and happy.

Flesh

2025

Nadezhda Stoyanova is a renowned translator from Japanese and a university professor at the peak of her career and experience when she learns that she has a tumor. She finds out together with her daughter Evgenia, a host on the most-watched television channel. Both believe that the illness will be cured and that their lives will not change drastically - Evgenia continues her routine television work, while Nadezhda begins translating what is considered an untranslatable Japanese novel by Nobel laureate Yukio Kobayashi, titled Flesh. But they are both mistaken. Nothing will ever be the same again, because it is precisely the flesh—the inescapable human flesh—that has the final word.

Across the Naked Hills

2024

Zhana, a quiet young woman, lives with her controlling foster father Danail in the remote countryside. Amid her tedious routine, Zhana secretly visits a dog tied to an empty barrel in an abandoned quarry. Soon, Danail discovers her secret.

Мераклии

2025

Dad

2025

A man returns after spending five years in prison abroad. He wants to start his life anew but faces only obstacles. His stepson sets out to seduce him, leading to a family tragedy.

Gundi: Legend of Love

2024

The great Bulgarian football player Georgi Asparuhov and his greatest love - his wife Lita go through a number of trials of life, football and the political system.

Windless

2025

Kaloyan returns home to handle the sale of his late father's apartment. At the beginning the process starts as a routine mundane task, but soon transcends into a journey of self-discovery that tries to track the connection between childhood trauma, memory and the passage of time.

Tarika

2024

Tarika lives with her father and her grandmother in a small hut near the border far away from the local village. Marked by her “butterfly wings”, a rare bone condition she inherited from her mother, the girl has been the source of the community’s superstition forever. When the local cattle is struck down by a mysterious disease, fear starts spreading among the villagers...

Scenes from the Life of an Actress

2020

Maria-Eleonora is an actress. During a film premiere she leaves the screening hall and crashes her car into the concrete wall of a parking lot, killing herself. Her longtime friend and aspiring film director Peter try to find out the reasons behind this dramatic act and interviews her relatives, colleagues, closest friends. He adds to the interviews video footage that he himself shot during their life together and some film scenes in which Maria-Eleonora took small supporting parts. Thus, Peter creates the film "Scenes from the life of an actress". Peter learns that everyone has a story about what happened, but no one really knew the deceased actress. Peter didn't knew her too.

Малки разговори

2007

No. 1

2011

Two schools, located in one building, are in a state of war. Alex and his friends assume the constant fighting with the elite school as a social riot, while Stephan, the literature teacher, desperately tries to show the guys another solution. Is it possible to convince them?

Triumph

2024

A military satire inspired by wild real-life events from the 1990s when, in the chaotic aftermath of the fall of communism, a task force comprised of high-ranking Bulgarian army officers and psychics embarked on a top-secret military operation in the small village of Tsarichina to dig up an elusive alien artifact that would change the course of history and make Bulgaria great again.

Memoir of a Betrayal

2023

A retelling of a crucial story of Bulgaria's troubled times based on the memoirs of Zahariy Stoyanov

Out of Season

2023

Assen explores rock monasteries in a Black Sea bay. He falls in love with Stella. For 11 years she has been waiting in vain for her missing lover. Asen reveals the truth about his death, but realizes that Stella would not be able to bear it. In order not to destroy Stella's fragile peace of mind, Asen leaves without saying anything to her.

The Good Driver

2023

Ivan, a Bulgarian taxi driver living at the Golden Sands tourist resort, is saving money in order to go back to Finland to meet his ex-wife and son, and to make amends for his past mistakes. But money is tight, and eventually Ivan will resort to extreme measures.