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Thisextensive overview contains a list of Bulgarian movies we recommend you watch. Some of them were created in the 20th century while Bulgaria was under communism, while others are modern movies that will help you listen to and learn modern Bulgarian.

This list of Bulgarian films will not only help you understand the history, society, mindset, and modern life of Bulgarian people better, but it will also help you improve your listening comprehension of the Bulgarian language. In turn, this will make it easier to understand the spoken language when communicating with your Bulgarian friends. Moreover, you can watch most of these Bulgarian movies online for added convenience!

A woman decides to speak after more than forty years of silence and reveals secrets that confuse the authorities, who decide to take action against her. This movie follows a series of events, in which the difference between good and evil is completely erased.

When both Bulgarian men return back to Podvis, they inform grandfather Galushko The White about the arrival of Karaibrahim and his people, letting him know that they have settled in the huge konak of Suleiman Agha in the village of Prosoyna.

The villagers of the valley decide to hide all the women and children. Karaibrahim gathers the village chiefs, reaching out to Suleiman Agha for assistance. But the Agha fears rising against the Padishah. Then, the chiefs gather in the konak and tell Karaibrahim that they would not give up their faith and that the time of parting has come.

One of the most popular Bulgarian comedy movies, this film illustrates Bulgaria in the 1920s. The main character is Purko, a poor country musician who constantly tries to find new ways to outwit life and feed his large family. He has to go through a series of funny (and sad) adventures during his fight against poverty, until one day his dream comes true: he becomes a well-dressed city gentleman. However, this illusion soon collapses, and the only thing Purko is left with is his clarinet.

This comedy is one of the best movies for learning the Bulgarian language. A group of families with children are on vacation in Nessebar. The movie consists of two parts: 1) the story of Ognyan and Elena, and 2) the story of Uncle Mancho and the photo camera.

Georgi Partsalev, a favorite actor in the Bulgarian film industry, plays Uncle Mancho in the second part of the film. The children who played in the movie adored Partsalev, and after the end of filming, he gave each of them a personal gift.

We hope you found a film with your name on it while reading through our Bulgarian movies list for language learners. Each of these movies has something special to offer learners, and each one is a great source of new vocabulary and cultural information.

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Internet users from all over the world now have free access to some of the most interesting Bulgarian archival film reels, which will take them back almost to the dawn of cinema. 43 Bulgarian videos, commercials and 33 newsreels from the period 1913-1943 have been recently uploaded in the film portal European Film Gateaway (hyperlink - ). But this has been just the beginning. The Bulgarian National Film Archive has been preparing more archives. They will soon become part of the European film portal, bringing together over 53,000 film titles and over 600,000 images from the archives of the Old Continent. The platform is linked to Europeana, the EU's web portal that provides access to more than 58 million digitized works of art, books, artifacts, audio and video from across Europe.

As an echo of the past, one can see demonstrations of the Sofia fire brigade, headed by Yuri Zakharchuk, a famous person in the capital's bohemian lifestyle circles. Viewers can also watch an artistic advertisement by the famous Shumen beer from the 30s of the XX century.

One of our most remarkable archival films in the online portal is Alexander Zhekov's documentary "The Balkan War" (1912-1913), which gives an unprecedented view of military action and life on the battlefield. The author takes his camera extremely close to the front line - something absolutely forbidden according to military regulations of the time.

The news reels from the period 1941-1944 show the militarized reality of the World War and the changing way of life of the people. The reels also show Tsar Boris III, Bogdan Filov and other Bulgarian and foreign politicians.

1. Sofia International Film Festival (Sofia IFF) is the biggest competitive film festival in Bulgaria, accredited by FIAPF.

The festival is presenting the best of the world contemporary cinema, including works of masters, discoveries and retrospectives.

9. Sofia IFF will cover all costs connected with the transportation of prints of the films selected for the Competitive sections to Sofia and back to the address given by the producer in case the film does not have outbound destination. Sofia IFF will cover inbound shipment of the prints of films shared with other festivals. Sofia IFF will cover all the expenses connected with the storage and insurance of the films during the Festival.

10. Sofia IFF invites representative of the films in the International Competition and Balkan Competition. The festival invites also the directors of the winning films in the Documentary and Teen Competitions for the Awards Ceremony. All conditions for the festival guests are included in their personal invitations. If conditions do not allow presence of guests in Sofia, SIFF will organize online introductions & Q&As with the talents.

FIPRESCI will appoint a jury of 3 members to decide the award for a film, selected from a special list of films published in the festival catalogue and on the festival website (goes to the director of the film);

The Audience will vote for its preferable film from the International and Balkan Competition. The audience will choose the winner of the Teen Competition as well. The award goes to the director of the film;

14. Participation in the Sofia IFF shall presume observation of all articles of the present Regulations.

The festival director has the right to settle all cases and issues not covered by these Regulations.

A survey of the Bulgarian collections in the Library of Congress would not be complete without some mention of audio-visual format materials. Two reading rooms provide access to recordings, fiction and non-fiction films and TV programs from or related to Bulgaria: the Moving Image Research Center and the Recorded Sound Research Center. Each research center is the primary point of contact for materials in their respective formats, especially given that so much of the materials in audio-visual formats are not fully cataloged and findable via the Library of Congress online catalog.

The Moving Image Research Center holds a number of interesting items related to Bulgaria. The film collection contains notable works of Bulgarian cinema such as Measure by Measure (Mera spored mera) about the kidnapping of American missionary Miss Ellen Stone, and Hedgehogs are Born without Spines (Taralezhite se razhdat bez bodli), a comedy submitted to the Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film from Bulgaria in 1972. The collection also holds a selection of animated films such as Three Fools and a Cow (Trimata glupatsi i kravata) by Don'o Donev and Opera for a Hazelnut (Opera za edin leshtnik) by Boiko Kunev. Recently the Library of Congress acquired contemporary Bulgarian documentaries on DVD. Examples include The Good Samaritan (Dobriiat Samariianin), about a Bulgarian soldier who served in military missions overseas, and Capitalism in Bulgaria (Kapitalizmut po bulgarski) about the economic crisis in Bulgaria in the 1990s. All of the materials in this collection must be used onsite.

The Library of Congress began collecting motion pictures in 1893 when Thomas Edison and his brilliant assistant W.K.L. Dickson deposited the Edison Kinetoscopic Records for copyright. However, because of the difficulty of safely storing the flammable nitrate film used at the time, the Library retained only the descriptive material relating to motion pictures. In 1942, recognizing the importance of motion pictures and the need to preserve them as a historical record, the Library began the collection of the films themselves; from 1949 on these included films made for television. Today the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) is responsible for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of the Library's motion picture and television collections.

Sound recordings of Bulgarian music are held by the Recorded Sound Research Center. Hundreds of titles from Bulgaria or with a Bulgarian connection can be found in the Library of Congress online catalog by conducting a search limiting the results to the location of Recorded Sound. One collection strength is Bulgarian folk music with many examples of both instrumental and choral music. Bulgarian operatic singers and classical composers also are well-represented with recordings, for example, by the singers Nicolai Ghiaurov and Boris Christoff, and composers Pancho Vladigerov and Dobri Hristov. Another area of interest are recordings of Orthodox Eastern religious music and chants. Many of the recordings in the collection from Bulgaria were produced by Balkanton, the government sponsored recording studio established in the 1950s. Bulgarian pop music is not covered to any extent.