VARNA: Hristo by Grigor Lefterov and Todor Matsanov will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival (19-25 September 2016). Most of the actors in this debut feature are real homeless or poor people from Sofia.

VARNA: Petar Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva’s second feature film Glory will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival (19-25 September 2016). The film is a socially engaged ironic take on the contemporary life in Bulgaria.

VARNA: Radoslav Spassov’s period drama The Singing Shoes will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival (19-25 September 2016). The film is inspired by the unusual life of Lea Ivanova, a talented jazz singer, who became famous in mid-twentieth century.

VARNA: Atanas Hristoskov’s low-budget second feature film Eighteen will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival (19-25 September 2016).

VARNA: Maxim Genchev’s historical thriller Inches above the Ground will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival set to take place from 19 to 25 September 2016.

VARNA: Ivaylo Penchev’s seaside comedy Holiday Makers will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival, set to take place from 19 to 25 September 2016.

VARNA: Vladimir Shterianov’s Russian/Bulgarian coproduction Labyrinths of Love will screen in the main competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival running from 19 to 25 September 2016. The film stars Russian popular actor/sportsman Sergiej Badyuk and Bulgarian karate world champion Alexandra Marinova.

VARNA: Twelve feature films will be screened in the national official competition of the 34th Golden Rose National Film Festival from 19 to 25 of September 2016. Three of them are majority coproductions and two are minority coproductions.

SOFIA: Rouzie Hassanova is in postproduction  with her debut feature, Radiogram, a Bulgarian/Polish/Turkish coproduction. Based on personal memories, the film follows a father who walks almost 100 km to buy a radio for his rock-and-roll obsessed son in 1971, when Western music was banned in communist Bulgaria.

SOFIA: Andrey Chertov is completing postproduction on Silent Movie, a feature film based on many documentary elements. The story follows the life of the famous Bulgarian composer, jazz performer and pianist Milcho Leviev, who immigrated to the United States in 1971.