FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Rat Poison

VARNA: Konstantin Burov’s debut feature is a Bulgarian-Romanian coproduction that also launches the careers of most of the actors in the film. Rat Poison will screen in the main competition…
10-10-2014

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: One More Dream

VARNA: Nikolay Mutafchiev’s independent debut feature tells the story of four beautiful women who meet at a psychotherapy session and decide to rob a bank. One More Dream screens in…
09-10-2014

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Hombre

VARNA: Zahary Paunov‘s Hombre, a contemporary story about a journalist who gets involved in an unsuccessful drug deal and becomes a victim of the mafia, is one of eight debuts…
09-10-2014

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014:Competition: Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat

VARNA: Action comedy Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat is the only sequel in Bulgarian cinema in the last 25 years and a third part has already been announced. Stanislav…
08-10-2014

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Roseville

VARNA: Martin Makariev's Roseville, promoted as the first Bulgarian psycho thriller, screens in the main competition of the annual Golden Rose Film Festival (11 to 17 October 2014) of new…
07-10-2014

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Living Legends

VARNA: Bulgarian writer/director/actor Niki Iliev’s second feature Living Legends which screens in the main competition of the annual Golden Rose Film Festival (11-17 October 2014) of new Bulgarian films in…
06-10-2014

FNE at Golden Rose FF 2014: Competition: Adultery

VARNA: Bulgarian film and theatre director and former international fashion model Yavor Vesselinov concentrates on a triangle love story in his graduation film Adultery. The film screens in the main…
06-10-2014

FESTIVALS: Bulgarian Golden Rose Sets Up International Jury

SOFIA: Bulgaria’s Golden Rose Film Festival is establishing a pitching workshop for new projects which have recently received public support for development.
02-10-2014

FESTIVALS: Golden Rose Returns to Bulgaria

SOFIA: The Bulgarian National Film Center announced the titles of the 15 films that will compete in the 32nd edition of the country’s oldest film event, the “Golden Rose” National…
29-09-2014

OBITUARY Bulgarian Former Nobel Prize Nominee Valeri Petrov Dies at 94

SOFIA: Often called “man of hope” and ‘’father of the nation’’ prominent poet, scriptwriter and translator Valeri Nissim Mevorah, known with his pen name Valeri Petrov, died in Sofia at…
29-08-2014

PRODUCTION: Iglika Trifonova in Postproduction with False Witness

SARAJEVO: Bulgaria’s award-winning Iglika Trifoniva (Letter to America, Investigation) is in postproduction with her Hague Tribunal fiction False Witness, an ambitious coproduction between Bulgaria’s Klass Film , Holland’s Phanta Vision…
18-08-2014

PRODUCTION: Milko Lazarov in Development with Nanook

SOFIA: Milko Lazarov, whose minimalist, almost dialogue-free low budget debut film Alienation became Bulgaria’s 2013 creative surprise, is developing Nanook produced by his company Red Carpet.
15-08-2014

New Minister of Culture Appointed in Bulgaria

SOFIA: Martin Ivanov has been named as the new Minister of Culture in the caretaker government just appointed by the country’s President Rosen Plevneliev.
06-08-2014

Bulgarian National Film Center to Fund Low Budget Films

SOFIA: For the first time since its establishment in 1991 the Bulgarian National Film Center will support low budget feature films, with up to 200,000 EUR per project. The application…
29-07-2014

Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody in Bulgaria for new film

SOFIA: Salma Hayek and Adrien Brody are currently in Bulgaria for the filming of Septembers of Shiraz, according to local media reports.
17-06-2014

Bulgarians Respond to Activist 38 Claims

SOFIA: Producers/directors Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova from Activist 38 have accused the Union of the Bulgarian Film Makers - Film Academy (consisting of over 900 members) and the Bulgarian…
10-06-2014

Bulgarian Cinema in Cannes 2014

Market Screenings of Bulgarian Films
13-05-2014

FNE Europa Distribution: Distributor of the Month: Emil Simeonov, Pro Films, Bulgaria

FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance…
07-05-2014

EFP Producers on the Move 2014: Maya Vitkova

SOFIA: Maya Vitkova will represent Bulgaria at European Film Promotion’s Producers on the Move in Cannes.
06-05-2014

Bulgarian Film Academy Nominates FNE Correspondent for Critics Award

SOFIA: Pavlina Jeleva, Bulgarian correspondent for Film New Europe, has been nominated by the Bulgarian Film Academy for the annual Best Critic award.
05-05-2014