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Belgrado, 2003. Il primo ministro serbo Zoran Djindjic viene assassinato. Il paese cade nel caos e viene imposto lo stato di emergenza. Una svolta nella storia recente della Serbia attraverso un giornalista, un poliziotto e un criminale.

Racconto biografico della vita privata e pubblica di Enrico Berlinguer, dal viaggio a Sofia del 1973 fino al discorso della Festa Nazionale dell'Unità di Genova del 1978.

Insieme, una regista e i suoi attori si avventurano in un progetto di ricerca personale sull'intimità. In un confine labile tra realtà e finzione, "Touch Me Not" segue i viaggi emotivi di Laura, Tómas e Christian, offrendo una visione profondamente empatica delle loro vite.

Workers from a factory that has closed reach out to the supernatural in a struggle for personal dignity.

The scandalous journalist Dimo and his wife Kalina separate, and their separation seems quite peaceful and amicable at first. Dimo starts a new life, free of responsibilities and full of distractions. He only wants to keep seeing his son Bobby, whom he loves very much, but Kalina has been hurt and turns the child against him. Bobby develops the Parental Alienation Syndrome and starts despising his father. Dimo is shocked by his ex-wife's behavior and throws himself into a desperate battle over his son, while being denied access to him for months on end. He comes face to face with the absurdities of a biased court, the clumsiness of the social services, and with public opinion, which takes the side of the mother by default. The battle between his parents makes Bobby angry with everyone and everything, and he starts misbehaving at school. Would Bobby be able to overcome the trauma?

A Georgian mother turns to surrogacy to secure a roof over her daughter's head. What begins as a quick way to earn cash transforms into a profound sacrifice, questioning how far a mother can go.

Chronicles Stephen C. Apostolof's rise from Eastern-European fugitive to producer and director of sexploitation films in the 60's and 70's, his turbulent relationship with infamous Ed Wood and his downfall in the late 70's with advent of hardcore pornography.

The life and death of socialist architectural monsters. An epic fairy-tale in five chapters.

Nine honorable ladies, descendants of Sephardi Jews in Bulgaria tell about their life and Sephardi traditions in Ladino - the language spoken by Sephardi Jews after they were expelled from Spain in 1492. Today Ladino (or Judeo-Spanish) is a language spoken by few people in the world, and these ladies are probably the only ones, who still speak this language in Bulgaria. In Ladino they share memories of their childhood, youth and the greater part of XX century, which they have witnessed. Beautiful songs, delicious masapan (marzipan in Ladino) and wisdom in a beautiful film about the need to keep living memory.

The young Demir dreams of a wedding. But his Roma tower block at the outskirts of a provincial town in Bulgaria is no place for romance. 25 years ago it had all it takes for panel socialist heaven: from parquet floors to intercom, the coveted hot water central, street lamps, benches under murmuring apple trees. Someone called the place Paradise Hotel - and the name stuck. But now? The parquet disappeared. The water stopped. The lights went off. And if you cross the field behind Paradise Hotel, you will see Bozhidar "The God Given" who protects everyone from evil and excessive happiness in a documentary about panel integration, love, misery, a lot of dreams, a little lyrics and one Gypsy wedding.

Explores the strange history of Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha who became Bulgaria's tsar at age 6, then was exiled during years of communism and returned to be elected Prime Minister.

The dreamlike drama revolves around Philip, who has it all: a successful career and a beautiful girlfriend. However, he is still taking care of Victor, his sensitive brother, years after the death of their parents. Emma is slightly autistic, fallen out of time. At night, she crafts a miniature model of a mystical garden in the back of her flower shop, where Victor works. Emma lives in spheres completely beyond Philip's reach. Through her garden, Philip realizes that he never felt so real until he met this otherworldly girl, he's falling in love with. His life is transforming - until Victor confesses that he, too, is in love with Emma. Torn between the love for his brother and for Emma, Philip feels the pain of loss for the first time.

For years, Russia has been trying to rebuild its empire. The hybrid war doctrine introduced by Putin in 2013 assumes attacking Western countries without declaring war. The invasion of Ukraine made us lose our sense of security. A pair of documentary filmmakers from Poland set off on a journey to look for answers to the question about the threats that may face Central and Eastern Europe. They track down GRU agents who blow up ammunition depots and poison Moscow's opponents with Novichok. They meet two presidents, a prime minister, a defense minister, a captured Russian spy and a dozen or so agents of influence.

At 20 years old, Anta, Evy, Lila, and Talia were already questioning patriarchy and capitalism while studying at Barnard College, a women-only university. Shot over 10 years, the film offers an intimate and poignant portrait of their individual stories, capturing the lasting impact of feminism on their lives.

Le vite aggrovigliate di un impresario funebre in crisi e di una ballerina determinata a comprare il suo "pacchetto eternità", tra ironia e resistenza.

The Last Black Sea Pirates swim in testosterone and rugged tenderness in a land of wilderness and legends, far from civilization. For 20 years, Captain Jack The Whale and his crew have been drinking, dreaming and hunting for a treasure buried in the gully of Karadere, the pristine beach they call home. But someone else has got wind of Karadere's treasures. When news of imminent change begin to find its way to this remote oasis, the pirates' world begins to unravel. Doubts erode the foundations of trust, conflicts brew, tensions are on the rise. In this crisis, emerges a contemporary fairy tale about the treasures we hunt and those that we find.

Kyustendil, a sleepy town in the Bulgarian mountains, has been hit by Covid, hard. In a close-knit community, patients meet former classmates in the same hospital room. Banter can often be heard through corridors, but death is never far. Many patients live in constant fear of deteriorating quickly and being sent 'upstairs'. 'Upstairs' is the intensive care unit, where only a handful are known to have survived. Presiding over the perpetual stream of complicated cases is Dr. Popov. Tall and kind-hearted, for some he has a witty line, for others a quote from Kant. Some of them misfire, but through the quiet dread in the hospital, he emits a mountain of human warmth. Unexpectedly, light and laughter echo through the hospital halls.

A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

Our modern life is largely designed by engineers. They like to invent and structure things and they are more at ease with figures and natural science than in relations with the opposite sex. Atanas, a Bulgarian computer engineer claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely and shy engineers find real love and real happiness? As he tries to develop a scientific formula for the perfect relationship, he uses other engineers as his guinea pigs; teaches them his ideas and sends them out to test them in the real world. He guides his subjects with wireless transmitters during their set up meetings with potential candidates: beautiful young women. Are the rules of attraction, sex and love scientific and if they are, do we really want to know them?

The incredible adventures in capitalism of psychiatrist Dr. Georgi Lulchev and the Home #6 for Psychologically Challenged Men.

The film tells the story of Marcel Cellier who traveled to Eastern Europe, where he collected and documented sounds that were up until then unknown in the west. They made this music internationally known and paved the way to success for musicians like the Romanian pan-flute virtuoso Gheorghe Zamfir and the legendary Bulgarian female vocal choir 'Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares'. On the tracks of the Celliers, the film travels to Eastern Europe to again find the protagonists from that time and let the wealth of their music live again. In the contrast of meetings from back then and today, a piece of contemporary history is experienced, which tells about the changes of people and their surroundings as well as the immortality of timeless music.

On the occasion of Bulgaria's upcoming accession to the EU in 2007, the film gives insight into Bulgaria as well as its newest history. The authors explore the contemporary reality and public opinions of the country, which had been advertised with the slogan "Where in the world is Bulgaria?" The film talks about the Bulgarian transition from communism to democracy through the life stories of two people: the former boy-king and recent Prime Minster of Bulgaria Simeon Saxcoburggotski and his namesake and coeval Simeon Kostyanev, a professor of geophysics. The stories of the two - Simeon, the boy-king and Simeon K., the farmer's son, lead us through the contradictions and agitations of the newest Bulgarian history. Interviews and documentary observation are combined with the comments of influential and important for the transition period in Bulgaria personalities, as well as of ordinary people who have witnessed key historical moments. This way various aspects of the life in Bulgaria within the last 60 years are explored, along with the expectations of the Bulgarian people from the EU.

A small town and its hopeful citizens are about to embark on a bright new journey. Massive rusty cranes, foreign investors, and the joyful chants of cheerleaders carry the dream of a great nuclear future. Disturbed only by gigantic stinging mosquitoes, the townsfolk celebrate the atomic hurray by engraving the nuclear power plant logo on buildings and soup bowls. Amidst the apparent atomic prosperity, lies a past that no one wants to remember. An island holding terrifying secrets. Stories of shocking and horrible crimes loom on the city just like the dark clouds of mosquitoes descending on its citizens. A world instantly transformed by ideologies, regimes and dreams of economic prosperity. The tales of characters whose lives intersect in a sinister past, nuclear future and the stinging mosquitoes flying through time, sealing their fate together. From the team behind the IDFA Silver Wolf award-winner "Georgi and the Butterflies".