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Festival program

THURSDAY, 10.07.25 

REGIONAL LIBRARY “NIKOLAY VRANCHEV”

17:00 The Erasmus Generation (Special screening)

Italy, 2024, 67 min., dir. Vincenzo Imperato, Q&A

19:30 Festival opening

19:40 Amoris Pomum (Special screening)

Uruguay, 2021, 4 min., dir. Felipe Sanguinetti;

Bulgarian premiere

19:45 Agatha's Almanac (Competition)

Canada, 2025, 84 min., dir. Amalie Atkins; 

Bulgarian Premiere

21:30 Concert – Nino Gomez and Elitsa Alexieva

RHODOPIAN DRAMA THEATER “NIKOLAY HAITOV”  

18:30 Land Without Bread (Special screening)

Spain, 1933, 30 min., dir. Luis Buñuel

 

FRIDAY, 11.07.25

REGIONAL LIBRARY “NIKOLAY VRANCHEV”

 

10:30 COMPETITION PROGRAM (91 min.)

Abel

Portugal, Bulgaria, 2023, 18 min., dir. Petya Atanasova

 

On the Melted Snow

Belgium, Iceland, 2025, 73 min., dir. Mojtaba Bahadori

 

16:00 COMPETITION PROGRAM (93 min.)

The Closing of a Refinery

Portugal, 2023, 16 min, dir. Vasco Monteiro; 

Bulgarian premiere

 

Architecture of Happiness

Switzerland, Germany, 2025, 77 min., 

dir. Michele Chirilliano, Anton von Bredow; 

Bulgarian premiere, Q&A

 

18:00 COMPETITION PROGRAM (106 min.)

Clear Sky

Poland, 2024, 22 min., dir. Marcin Kundera; 

Bulgarian premiere

 

In the Rearview

Poland, France, Ukraine, 2023, 84 min., dir. Maciek Hamela;

Bulgarian premiere

 

20:00 Landshaft (Competition)

Germany, Armenia, 2023, 97 min., dir. Daniel Kötter; 

Bulgarian premiere, Q&A

 

22:00 The Shrovetide Devil (Competition)

Portugal, 2024, 52 min., dir. Diogo Varela Silva; 

Bulgarian Premiere

RHODOPIAN DRAMA THEATER “NIKOLAY HAITOV”  

12:30 Girls Don't Cry (Competition)

Germany, 2025, 90 min., dir. Sigrid Klausmann, Lina Luzyte

Bulgarian premiere

 

14:30 COMPETITION PROGRAM (98 min.)

Grandma's Food

Brazil, 2024, 16 min., dir. Luisa Macedo

 

Nansie

Australia, 2024, 82 min., dir. Anna Trichet-Laurier; 

World Premiere, Q&A

 

16:30 COMPETITION PROGRAM (83 min.)

Taste of Home

UK, 2023, 30 min., dir. Jitu Raj

 

The Keep

Italy, 2024, 17 min., dir. Federico Conti

 

Gigi

Switzerland, 2024, 19 min., 

dir. Tanguy Bula, Roberto Resciniti, Adriane Absolone; 

European Premiere

 

The Good Death

Netherlands, Turkey, 2024, 20 min., dir. Hasan Ete; 

Bulgarian Premiere

 

18:00 COMPETITION PROGRAM (82 min.)

Conventions of Contract

Greece, 2024, 26 min., dir. Stefanos Mondelos; 

Bulgarian Premiere

 

Silt

Bulgaria, 2023, 23 min., dir. Katya Simeonova

 

Bitter Oranges

Switzerland, France, 2024, 15 min., dir. David Tissato, Noé Cusot; 

Bulgarian Premiere

 

Lynx

Bulgaria, 2025, 15 min., dir. Stefan Voyvodov

 

Travel Story

Bulgaria, UK, 2024, 3 min., dir. Michaela Draganova; 

Bulgarian Premiere

 

20:00 COMPETITION PROGRAM (96 min.)

Unfiltered

UK, 2024, 42 min., dir. Ellie Green

 

4:30

Russia, 2023, 15 min., dir. Vasilii Ovchinnikov;

Bulgarian Premiere

 

The Old Man and His Dream

Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2025, 26 min., dir. Dusko Mazalica; 

Bulgarian Premiere

 

Gaya was here

Netherlands, 2024, 13 min., dir. Finn Szumlas; 

Bulgarian Premiere

 

22:00 COMPETITION PROGRAM (69 min.)

Koka

Poland, 2024, 48 min., dir. Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk

 

Songs of Duolan

Georgia, 2025, 21 min., dir. Sakhamin Trofimov;

Bulgarian premiere

 

SATURDAY, 12.07.25

 

REGIONAL LIBRARY “NIKOLAY VRANCHEV”

 

10:30 COMPETITION PROGRAM (91 min.)

The Dinosaur Man

Japan, 2025, 13 min., dir. Kazuya Ashizawa;

Bulgarian premiere

 

Perfect Meal

Greece, France, 2023, 52 min., dir. Alexandros Merkuris

 

Birthday Cakes from China

China, 2024, 26 min., dir. Shengzha Zhang; 

Bulgarian premiere

15:30 COMPETITION PROGRAM (80 min.)

To the Embers

France, 2024, 28 min., dir. Morgane Ambre; 

Bulgarian premiere, Q&A

 

Unspoken

Poland, 2024, 52 min., dir. Maciej Adamek; 

Bulgarian premiere

19:00 AWARD CEREMONY

19:30 Mother Vera (Competition)

UK, 2024, 91 min., dir. Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson; 

Bulgarian premiere, Q&A

21:30 Concert – NO MORE MANY MORE

RHODOPIAN DRAMA THEATER “NIKOLAY HAITOV”

11:30 Thai-land (Competition)

Israel, 2024, 75 min., dir. Nir Dvortchin; 

European Premiere

 

13:00 Until the Orchid Blooms (Competition)

Cambodia, France, 2024, 103 min., 

dir. Polen Li; Bulgarian Premiere

 

15:00 Stray Bodies (Competition)

Greece, Switzerland, Italy, Bulgaria, 

2024, 109 min., dir. Elina Psiku

 

17:00 Blueberry Dreams (Competition)

Georgia, France, Belgium, Qatar, 2024, 76 min., 

dir. Elene Mikaberidze; Bulgarian premiere, Q&A

 

SUNDAY, 13.07.25

 

REGIONAL LIBRARY “NIKOLAY VRANCHEV”

 

11:00 Special Screenings (48 min.)

Sea Me – A Life in Silence

Bulgaria, 2024, 30 min., dir. Lyubo Yonchev

 

Clean Mountains

Bulgaria, 2024, 18 min., 

dir. Yasmina Ivanova, Ekaterina Angelova; Q&A

 

15:30 Hala (Bulgarian Competition)

Bulgaria, 2023, 63 min., 

dir. Vanya Ivanova, Maria Landova

 

16:30 School of Hope (Bulgarian Competition)

Bulgaria, 2024, 82 min., 

dir. Yana Alexieva; Q&A

 

18:30 Soul Beyond Measure (Bulgarian Competition)

Bulgaria, 2024, 109 min., 

dir. Sofia Stoycheva; Q&A

 

20:30 The Cruel Way (Bulgarian competition)

Bulgaria, 2024, 109 min., 

dir. Deyan Bararev; Q&A

RHODOPIAN DRAMA THEATER “NIKOLAY HAITOV”

11:30 Oblivion (Special Screening)

Bulgaria, 2022, 27 min., 

dir. Valentina Fidanova-Kolarova; Q&A

 

12:00 Artists for Children (Bulgarian Competition)

Bulgaria, 2024, 75 min., 

dir. Elena Panayotova; Q&A

 

13:30 This was 1965 (Bulgarian competition)

Bulgaria, Germany, 2025, 101 min., 

dir. Lisa Marie Stoychev; Q&A

 

15:30 SPECIAL SCREENINGS (55 min.)

Jar of Time – Bulgaria, 2024, 27 min.,

dir. Nevena Semova; Q&A

 

Memories from 1994

Bulgaria, Germany, 2025, 28 min., 

dir. Isa Edelhoff, Isabel Bakalski; Q&A

 

17:00 A Lesson in Flying (Special Screening)

Bulgaria, Japan, 2025, 80 min., 

dir. Svetlozar Georgiev; Q&A