Category: Bulgarian Shorts
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The Price of Dreams in an Age of Inflation: HAWAII (2024)
REVIEW I first saw Hawaii at the Sofia International Film Festival last year (2025). It was screening alongside one of my own films—they were competing in the same category—and, quite honestly, after watching it for the first time, I found myself hoping it would win an award. I remember it with remarkable clarity even a…
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THE TIES WE CARRY: ON KRISTINA SPASSOVSKA’S “MOTHERLAND”
After an accident, a young woman is forced to stay home and be her mother’s two hands. A family made up of an emigrant mother and daughter is on the verge of being split apart, just as the moment arrives for the daughter to set out on her own path. Right at this fateful moment,…
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LONELINESS IN POST-SOVIET LANDSCAPE: “BLACK DOG”
The first time I watched “Black Dog” I definitely didn’t like it. It felt like a segment of life that’s unfinished, as if there was probably something it was targeting to say, but it didn’t land. I had to do an interview with the author of this short, and thus I had to see it…
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THE HEALING POWER OF ARTISTRY: “CANCER, CAPRICORN, PISCES”
I am sharing with you an English version of a review of a Bulgarian short film I have published on the platform Kinematograf.bg. I have been thinking about this one for a long time after I first saw it. Furthermore, with the link provided, you can stream it absolutely free with English subtitles online. I…
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