Tag: bulgaria

Toronto 2016 Review: Bulgarian Drama GODLESS Depicts Moral Decay in an Eastern European Dystopia

Ralitza Petrova, an emerging filmmaker from Bulgaria, unveiled her powerful debut outing Godless recently at the Locarno Film Festival, where she ended up standing in the spotlight and holding the Golden Leopard award. She thus joined the ranks of talented...

Warsaw 2014 Interview: THE LESSON Co-director Petar Valchanov On The State Of Bulgarian Cinema

In Peter Valchanov & Kristina Grozeva's The Lesson, schoolteacher Nadezhda (Margita Gosheva) discovers that there is a thief in her class and decides to not let this petty offense go unpunished. Unfortunately, as soon as she returns home, she finds...

Toronto 2014: Exclusive Trailer For Bulgarian Thriller THE LESSON

What happens when a small-town Bulgarian school-teacher is driven to extreme lengths by loan sharks? A lot of tension, it would appear from this new trailer for Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov's The Lesson making its world premiere in...