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- The film is a funny, dramatic and tragicomic search for the truth about a Song. A Song that everybody in the Balkans claims it is theirs.A Song that appears as a love song, as a religious hymn and even as a song inciting for battle. An exciting journey around Turkey, Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Bosnia, Serbia and Bulgaria. A film showing with a sense of humor some of the typical features of the character of the people on the Balkans, as for example their habit of appropriating all that is good and denying the others the right to possess the same qualities, the same songs, the same customs, the same temperament.
- Born From the Ashes is a film about a particular community - the Roma living in the villages near the mountainous town of Tvarditsa in Bulgaria; about the difficulties these people overcome, and the sacrifices they make while striving to achieve their goal - to preserve their identity while accepting the terms of contemporary civilisation and taking up the challenges it sends to them.
- Silence with Dignity is a documentary about the life and work of the famous Bulgarian film directors, the family of Irina Aktasheva and Hristo Piskov. It is a story about their emblematic films and of those whose realization was banned, the criteria according to which a film was classified as "too dangerous" under communism, the mechanisms of censorship, their persistence and creative survival and their silence charged with dignity. The film reveals unknown details of the history of Bulgarian cinema and the link between the political elite and the intellectuals at the time.
- It is a film about one of the ethnic cleansing in the Balkan Peninsula, which took place in in Bulgaria. The consequences of it are lasting till now. In the mid 80-ies the Bulgarian communist authorities started to forcefully change the Turkish names of about one million ethnic Turks into Bulgarian ones, in an attempt to resolve the ethnic problems that had been piled up for years. The film tells the stories about three women and their divided families. Each of them experienced in her own way this tragedy.
- The film was banned by the communist authorities. It dared to criticize and show the hypocrisy and the double-standard morals of the Communist society. Awarded the "Silver Rhyton" Prize at the National Non-fiction Film Festival. It was selected and was screened in its censored versions at the festivals in Oberhausen, Leipzig and Bilbao.
- The film is a story about custom whose origins are hidden far back in the past, Here, in the village of Sushitsa, this custom has almost completely preserved its authenticity and can still be seen as it was performed centuries ago. This is a film about the small village and its inhabitants, about an ancient tradition that they have preserved almost intact to this day, and about a friendship - as undying as the tradition itself.
- This story of love and separation takes place in the surreal world of 1960s communist Albania. As told by survivors of this extraordinary period, Divorce Albanian Style reveals the experience of the many thousands of families that were forcibly separated by the totalitarian regime of Enver Hoxha, the longest-serving European dictator of the 20th century. Near the height of his mania, in 1961 Enver Hoxha broke off Albania's relations with the Soviet Union. Albanian men married to foreign women were forced by the state to split from their wives - women from all over Eastern Europe - who were subsequently expelled. The official reason was alleged espionage. Hojda quickly created a mechanism to deal with those who refused to leave. KGB-trained secret police collected "evidence", minor clerks became "investigators", carpenters were made into prosecutors and labor camps expanded. The women who stayed - and their husbands - spent years in prisons, the last released in 1987. Divorce Albanian Style tells the stories of three of these couples, and of the apparatchiks and officers of the secret police who changed their lives forever.