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In June 1946, Stalin invites the Russian exiled from the 1917 Revolution to return home. When the ships comes ashore in Odessa, the passengers are divided in two groups and one of them is executed. Among the survivors are Dr. Aleksei Golovin, his French wife Marie and their young son. Marie is accused to be a spy, her French passport is torn up and Aleksei accepts to move to Kyiv with his family to save her. They are sent to a room in a communal house and soon Marie befriends the super, an old woman who speaks French. But she is denounced and killed by the government agents. Marie feels guilty and brings her grandson Sasha Vasilyev, who will be evicted, to live in her room with her family. Marie wants to return to her family in France, but Aleksei explains that they are imprisoned in Russia. Marie tries a contact with the leftist French actress Gabrielle Develay to ask for help to leave the USSR. While Marie gets distant from her husband, she gets closer to Sacha, who is a great swimmer and the only chance to Marie contact her family.

ONLY HUMAN - Homo - stages 6 profiles in 6 sequences cleverly interwoven. A dramatic story featuring desperate characters in their quest for survival and love, or redemption.

Smuggling illegals into Europe, Lazar will be facing an impossible choice.

A boy starts an affair with his famous dad's young new wife - an instinctive way of victory of a confused soul over his parent's inadequacy. Ever haunting dreams about his real mother start overwhelming the boy more and more often. Unsuspecting a thing, the father keeps trying to carry out his own views on beauty upon their joint living. In vain - faith intends differently.

This is a story of strange, impossible, inexplicable love between a Muslim Turk woman and a non-Muslim Bulgarian man. Ivan (the Bulgarian) is a pure and romantic young fellow, who gets caught up in the so-called "regeneration process" (when ethnic Turks' names were forcibly changed to Bulgarian ones).

"Once upon a time there was an old gypsy. He had never left the hill where he lived. He never went to the inn, nor read the newspaper or watched Dallas. He was a proud man who liked to tell stories. Even though he avoided the church, he knew what the fear of God was. The old gypsy was blessed by three beautiful daughters whom he loved more than anything else. The two older ones soon found husbands, but the youngest Sarolta only walked up hill and down dale. She was the apple of his eye..." This is the beginning of Romani Kris. The film shows the gypsy Lovér and the village idiot Tamáska on their dramatic and adventurous journey through a Hungarian landscape at times lush and at times barren to present a lyrical, magical and unforgettable story.

The contrast of a hippie style commune up in the mountain and a drug addicts rehab center in the valley. What could go wrong if someone escapes the rehab?

Theo (13) is following in his father's footsteps by becoming an erotic novelist. His sister Andy (18) refuses to talk to anyone, communicating online only with her brother, who trades her to a Gypsy baron.

The film consists of three, at first glance independent, stories and follows three situations developing simultaneously within a few days. Narrated parallel, they gradually reveal the connections between the members of a family and, at the same time, the disintegrated human communication between the characters - husbands and wives, brothers, parents, children. The threads of the separate events become interwoven so that at the end they are joined into a common, mutually connected and mutually dependent existence, branded by the lack of value and higher meaning. Sloth and inertia, suppressed spiritual impulses and torments are as concrete and tangible as the wind and their consequences are irreversible - a moment after which there is no time for "later". No one is innocent, no one is guilty and still each one of the characters is deeply shaken at the realization that he or she could have lived their days in a different way...

Tractor driver Georgi Avramov is a bachelor who lives in a village together with his ailing mother and his sister Zorka. The dream of his life is to get married. And that is why he takes part in a Lonely Hearts TV show. Dozens of women send him letters but they never reach him because the postman, Mite the Post, never delivers them. When Savina arrives in the village pretending to be a candidate bride, Georgi hastily gets engaged to her without so much as thinking of the consequences. Soon after the engagement Georgi remains empty handed, cheated and robbed, but then he finds a new, true love - someone who has been right beside him all the time.

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.

Three lonely women meet in Krapetz, a village on the Black Sea coast, trying to escape the arrogance and the triteness of "modern" post-communist society. The idyll continues for several days, but is soon destroyed. Crime, violence and corruption reach the three women even in this far, deserted place.

Petyo, who is 7 is impatient to start his first year at school. His mom lies to him that his father had to travel abroad and sends him to her parents' village. There Petyo finds friendship with Filip when they both stand up against the Truth Gang.

Europe is in war. Violence is common practice and Jews are annihilated in every possible way. Against this political and social background two charming men fight for the soul of the young and elevated actress Sulamit. One of them is the Seminarist - a manly, undeviating person with no prejudice, willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his destructive goals. The other is Maestro - a man of manners and intellect, an experienced person, able to see through immortality and to look on at the problems of the present day only in the light of eternity. Between the two stands the frail, spray-like Sulamit with her love to offer.

The life of a young girl and her perception of the world as she knows it falls completely apart in just over a night in London, when her sister goes missing. What happens to someone, whose dearest dream turns into a nightmare? What does it take for one to keep or lose their sanity?

The end of the 70s. Anton Krastev, a DOP and his wife Diana are separated by the Iron curtain - she fled with their son Antoan to Western Berlin while he stayed in Bulgaria. She believes that Antoan can only be cured in Germany. But Anton can't live without his job. He works with the best film director who is a high ranking Communist. The State Security Services are keeping a zealous eye on Anton. His phone calls are being taped, his letters are being read. His close relations to the power people of the day make him even more suspicious. The State Security Services put an end to Anton's relation with his wife. Thorn apart, Anton and Diana go through love, alienation and hate. There comes a time though when the powerful friends of Anton lose their power and he loses everything that he's ever loved - his work, his wife and son. Thirty years later Anton shoots the story of his own life. But those who now direct the movie are the very same people who once persecuted him.

Emilia's friends are portrayed in a number of separate but interrelated cameos. On an individual level each cameo reveals the life of a single person. Viewed as a whole, they portray the common human characteristics of a group of friends and the different ways in which they are coming to terms with the world in which they live.

High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to compromise with their consciences and their art, (as normally happens here in the Balkans), or whether to preserve Katerina's message.

Vitosha National Park is in dangerous proximity to the ever-growing capital of Bulgaria, which is why its status of a protected area is put at risk by collisions between the oligarchs and powers that be.

A story of three unemployed street artists - Trumpeter, Ballerina and Opera singer. A little boy watches what's happening in her window and finds inspiration in her drawings.

In our difficult modern life when social difference and inequality cause even children to be submitted to undeserved humiliation, two kids of different fates shall touch this lonely old man's strange and interesting world of spiritual richness. The kid's spiritual growth - the realization of true human kindness and the choice of justice to falsehood and lie are moral messages of this film. Mark Twain's novel becomes a character in the story and establishes direct connections with modern society; thus the story of the two boys turns into modern parable of good and evil.

A small deserted rail station, where the train stops only because it is scheduled to do so. Station without future and faith. Nobody gets on or goes off the train. Old retired switch man lives there with his family. In the nearby village local poets dig graves to make ends meet. Projectionist remembers once crowded movie theater. Old man is looking for "the lover's pear tree". A shepherd dreams of ice cream, served in a restaurant. Paramedic - philosopher cares for elderly single woman. Twelve local men tell stories from the poorest region of the European Union - Northwestern Bulgaria. Mosaic film, slice of life from rural Bulgaria. Confession from the little people about not so little things - cows, life, faith, death, the benefits of dogs and mice and the need for blond waitresses, Jean-Paul Sartre and existentialism, river fishing, old fortune tellers and the wind.

The film deals with the exceptional power of the human spirit, which turned suffering into a triumph. The film about the creative resurrection overshadowed the fate of Zlatyo Boyadzhiev and Boris Hristov.