Stefan Mavrodiyev

He is well educated, charming, and gallant - a dream for each lonely lady. In reality he is a skillful swindler, who robs naive women. Cheating merchants with guilty consciences are his targets as well. This is the elusive protagonist of the movie. He constantly changes his name, stages his own death, and travels from town to town. His exploits are myriad and his life is an endless adventure. (imdb)

The film sends us to the 18th century when Bulgaria was a part of the Ottoman Empire. Four hoodlums break into the house of the shepherd Karaivan, raping and killing his wife in full view of their little girl, Maria. Karaivan decides to take the law into his own hands and raises Maria as a boy, training her to fight so that she can kill in cold blood and help her father avenge her mother's murder.

This is a typical story from the 'cold war' era. A Bulgarian secret service agent is sent to a big Western European company. He works under cover using a false name and finds that company is in fact a spy head office. His former colleague, who detected traces of the espionage business, is killed. The mission of the new agent becomes harder and harder. He receives unexpected help from the secretary of the company, who helps him reveal the identities of all foreign agents in Eastern Europe. (imdb)

Early 20th c. An era of seething passions, aspirations for freedom and national self-identification. The protagonist is rank-and-file Macedonian who is unwittingly swept by the events. Later, it was his conscious choice. He was a witness of changes, crucial for the nation. He comes across legendary personalities. He gets enchanted and disappointed. He is seeking for the right answers, rethinks what he saw and experienced to tell his story in his simple, but candid and wise words of his own. (imdb)

The beginning of the 20th century. The young cooper Lio is recognized by the cooper guild as a master of his trade, but no one believes in his abilities. Even the local Muslim priest, for whom Lio made his first barrel, doubts its strength because the hoops are made of wood. Lio throws the barrel in the foaming rocky cauldron of the mountain river, wins a bet against the priest and shaves his beard as has been agreed. This is a parable about genuine mastery and the creative spirit. (imdb)

Dressed up like a 'Swedish king', a thick wad of bank notes in his pocket, the worker Spas has decided to have a holiday of his life at a fashionable seaside resort. It turns out, however, that he feels lonely and unhappy at the resort of his dreams and, before his holiday is over, he goes back to the construction site, to his friends and fellow-workers without having found what he has dreamt of. (imdb)

A gray border, dull village. Time seems to have stopped in this place. The appearance of a beautiful woman breaks the monotonous way of life and challenges the colorless group of men and makes them come out of their shells. (imdb)

Two young people living in the country decide to move to the big city by all means. They set off hitchhiking, but on the road uncertainty and remorse seize them. Is that the right decision? In their journey they face both good intentions and perfidy. Do they finally arrive in the big city or come back to their village? (imdb)

The protagonist in this picture is legendary Bulgarian Khan Krum - a ruler in 7th c. In this period, Bulgaria ranked third in Europe in terms of territory and military power. It is Khan Krum who contributed to the union of Bulgarians and Slavs. He enforces unseen to that day laws against calumniators, thieves, violators. It stirs discontent among his closest men. The ruler is smart and just, but isn't he too severe? At what cost can one ensure order and progress in a state? (imdb)

Bulgaria, the night of October 18, 1922. A rampageous young man - an American, is forced to get off the Orient Express at a small station. The chief of the railway station and his daughter are quite unwilling to put up the stranger. When the father understands that his daughter has decided to go away to Paris with the American, he makes a potion to sedate him and gets him on a train on the sly. In the morning all that has left from the guest is a piece of paper, which reads "Ernest Hemingway". (imdb)

A young man has trouble communicating with people and is seeing a shrink. He falls in love at first sight, then meets three friends and joins their small community. The four youngsters naively decide to make some easy money by blackmailing an elderly woman. Little do they know that a stranger with a shady past and problematic present will turn their lives upside down. A story about love and despair, hope and disillusionment, revenge and revelation. (imdb)

An argument on the bus becomes the occasion of a brutal murder. Inspector Milanov and his assistant are determined to catch the criminals, but they have few clues. And ordinary people and even the victims of other crimes are afraid to cooperate with the police and prefer to stay silent

Friday night. Forthcoming holidays. Five women have two days in which they can think for themselves, after the tragic death of their colleague. In this rainy autumn evening, something fatal will happen to each of these women