2020, Bulgaria, short fiction, 20 min., colour, DCP
Short Synopsis Sofia in the present day. A boy from a well-to-do family is in love with Bonnie, a teenager from the impoverished outskirts. In order to test his love, Bonnie’s older sister Lionnie subjects the suitor to a humiliating ordeal. Will he pass or fail? And what do failure and success mean? Even when it comes to love, the rich and the poor speak different languages.
Cast Elena Zamyarkova, Monika Naydenova, Alexander Benev Crew Written by Svetla Tsotsorkova and Svetoslav Ovcharov; Director Svetla Tsotsorkova; DoP Vesselin Stoyanov;
Festivals Bucharest ShortCut Cinefest; The Continental Film festival Munich; IFilms International Short Film Festival; JAHORINA Film Festival – Serbia; Short Movie Club Film Festival ”Nefiltravanae kino” – Minsk;
Co-producer 2021, Bulgaria, documentary, 60 min, black and white, DCP
Short Synopsis The Soviet occupation of Bulgaria from the autumn of 1944 to the winter of 1947 caused the greatest political, financial and moral catastrophe in the new Bulgarian history. The film is made entirely of chronicles and documents, many of which are shown for the first time.
Crew
Director: Svetoslav Ovcharov Script: Evelina Kelbecheva, Svetoslav Ovcharov Camera: Svetla Tsotsorkova Sounddesign: Valeria Popova Producer’s: Svetoslav Ovcharov, Svetla Tsotsorkova, Evelina Kelbecheva Production companies: Omega films, Archives State Agency, with the support of Ministry of Education and Science, SWU “Neofit Rilski
World sales
Omega films Festivals & Awards “Golden Rython” festival – Sofia 2022 – Bulgarian Filmmakers Union Award, Bulgarian National Film Archive Award; Sofia Film Fest on the Coats 2022 – Special Jury Prize; Official selection – Golden Linden IFF 2022; Kinomagia IFF 2022 * Sold to Bulgarian National TV
co-producer 2022, Bulgaria, documentary, 58 min, colour, DCP Directors: Svetla Tsotsorkova & Svetoslav Ovcharov
Short synopsis Georgi is a village builder contractor. He’s honest and direct. His values and moral system often clash with contemporary society’s. Seen as crazy by some, he is a source of endless aphorisms to others. To live your life with dignity and without compromise in our time is heroic.
Cast Georgi Staykov Trifon Staykov, Stanka Staykova Tsvetelina Blajeva Miroslav Krantovski, Stefan Nikolov
Crew Written, directed and produced Svetla Tsotsorkova, Svetoslav Ovcharov DoP Vesselin Hristov Sound designer, final mix and musical arrangements Valeria Popova Music Carl Maria von Weber Solo Martin Stoyanov Colour grading and postproduction supervisor Todor G. Todorov Titles and Credits Dimiter Ovtcharov
World sales: Omega films Festivals: Thessaloniki IFF 2022
Director Statement Bulgarian documentary films often reach for the extraordinary at the expense of the mundane. We are used to seeking examples, whether positive or negative. It could be that, as a small nation, we try to upstage our own selves, and as such we’re always attracted to heroes, to raising (or destroying) monuments. It may sometimes seem like in this strive for grandiosity, what happens around us goes unnoticed. Artists often look down on everyday problems, having left them to pundits and journalists. Media, at the same time, swamps us with bombastic stories about who was gutted, robbed, or cheated by whom…. We might say that it’s the times we live in. But let’s ask ourselves this, how many murderers, robbers, or thieving bankers do we know personally? We personally have a hard time answering, because we don’t know a single one. Well, maybe just one. How about the other five million people? When do they ever get on our radar? When will we make sense of the times in which a second generation is already living? But let’s take a look at our hero. Gosho is one of these people who, as they say, carry the state on their shoulders. He seems to have walked straight out of an anthology of Bulgarian popular psychology: a hardworking bear of a man, a tireless toiler, a homebody, cheerful but with a sharp tongue, empathetic to the suffering of others, compassionate and cruel in one, good natured and restless, a bull in the china shop, and a first-class rascal. He´ll even say so himself: “I can’t keep my hands still. If one does something, the other wrecks it.” One could even sometimes think he’s an idiot, he’s so sincere in his acceptance of every dumb thing he ever did, that it’s hard to understand: why did he really do something that he seems to genuinely regret? His attitude isn’t conceited, there are no farfetched goals, he lives for the here and now. Whatever tomorrow brings, it’ll be tomorrow. A creature of god!
2019, Bulgaria, Qatar, fiction 97 min, colour, DCP, 1:2,35 Director – Svetla Tsotsorkova
Short Synopsis In a small town in Bulgaria, a mother and her two daughters are struggling to survive. The younger daughter often invents stories to make life more interesting. Unwittingly, she eventually gets caught in a web of her own lies.
Cast
Monika Naydenova, Svetlana Yancheva, Elena Zamyarkova, Assen Blatechki
Crew script Svetla Tsotsorkova, Svetoslav Ovcharov, director Svetla Tsotsorkova, DoP Vesselin Hristov, Sound design Valeria Popova, Producers: Svetoslav Ovcharov & Svetla Tsotsorkova World sales: Film Republic https://filmrepublic.biz/
Awards “Special mention” San Sebastian IFF; Best lm at Cottbus IFF, Germany; Best lm at CINEDAYS Norther Macedonia; Young FIPRESCI JURY AWARD at Warsaw IFF; Best Cinematography and the Award of Bulgarian Film Union at “Golden Rose” IFF Bulgaria; Best Film, Best Actress and Best Actor at Bosporus IFF, Turkey; Best Actress at Beirut IFF; Best lm at So a IFF; Special Jury Award at Lecce IFF, Italy; Best Cinematography at “Golden Eye” FF, Bulgaria
Festivals San Sebastian – New Directors competition (2015) – World Premiere; London IFF; Thessaloniki IFF; Goteborg IFF; Shanghai IFF; “Cinecitta” – Netherlands; B3 Biennale – Germany; Films de Femmes de Creitel – France; KINO PAVASARIS – Lithuania; Guada- lajara IFF – Mexico; Festival del Cinema Europeo IFF, Italy, Wome lm festival – Levan, Bengaluru IFF – India, Black Movie IFF – Geneva; Filmatique Talent – USA and Canada; Cork IFF – Ireland; “Made in Europe” – online edition; Festival of Bulgarian movies in Paris; PULA IFF – Croatia; Films de “Mer Noire” Mayenne, France
Contact:
Front Film 7 Victor Grigorovic Str, ap.5 Sofia 1606, Bulgaria Tel: +359 898 552388, +359 888 325022
Bulgaria, fiction, 107 min, colour
Director – LYUBOMIR MLADENOV
Annotation
A cameraman takes up with a woman he has just met and her brother. The mentally ill brother never leaves his room until the man comes up with an effective way of coaxing him out in this touching human drama.
Cast
TSVETAN ALEKSIEV
ELENA DIMITROVA
IVAN DIMITROV
Crew
Scriptwriter – LYUBOMIR MLADENOV
Director – LYUBOMIR MLADENOV
DoP – DIAN ZAGORCHINOV
Production Designer – VIKTOR ANDREEV
Sound – MOMCHIL BOZHKOV
Producers – NEDEJDA KOSEVA, SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA
Production – FRONT FILM
in co-production withh CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS
with the support of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER
FESTIVALS
TOKYO IFF 2017 – Competition – World Premiere
Contact:
Front Film
7 Victor Grigorovic Str, ap.5 Sofia 1606, Bulgaria
Tel: +359 898 552388, +359 888 325022
2015, Bulgaria, fiction, 90 min, colour, DCP, 1:2,35
Director – SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA
Annotation
The Mother, the Father and their 16-year-old son live on a hill, at the end of a village. They wash hotel sheets for a living. The water supply is inconsistent and they often find themselves without any water. A couple of drillers – a father and his daughter – arrive, in order to solve the water supply problem. The family’s harmonious world shatters into pieces. Everyone loves and hates everyone else. The thirst for love is so great that only death could quench it.
Cast
MONIKA NAIDENOVA, ALEXANDER BENEV, SVETLANA YANCHEVA, IVAYLO HRISTOV, VASIL MIHAILOV, STEFAN MAVRODIEV, IVAN BARNEV
Crew
Director – SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA
Writers – SVETOSLAV OVCHAROV, SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA, VENTSISLAV VASILEV
DoP – VESSELIN HRISTOV
Producer – NADEJDA KOSEVA, SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA
Production – FRONT FILM
with the support of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Co-Producer – OMEGA FILMS
San Sebastian – New Directors competition (2015) – World Premiere
London BFI, UK – Love Section
Zurich, Switzerland – Competition
Haifa, Israel – Competition
Hamburg, Germany, KaleidosKop &Competition New Talent Award Section
CinEast, Luxembourg
Golden Rose, Bulgaria – Awarded for Best Debut Film & Best Cinematography
Warsaw, Competition 1-2
Sao Paulo, Brazil – Competition
Thessaloniki, Greece – Balkan Survey – Competition
Minsk, Listapad, Belarus- Best Cast Award, Jury Prize
Arras, France – Competition – Best Mise En Sc?ne – Direction Award
Cinedays – Skopje, Macedonia – Competition
Rotterdam, Netherlands – Bright Future
G?teborg FF, Panorama
Spirit of Fire (Khanty-Mansysk), Competition
Guadalajara, Panorama
Bergamo, Competition
Wales One World, Panorama
Sofia, Intl Competition – Best Bulgarian feature
FebioFest (Prague) – Balkan Beats
Cr?teil (France), Competition
Vilnius, New Europe – New Names- Best Film, Best Actress
Istanbul, Golden Tulip Intl Competition
Balkan Trafik (Belgium)
San Francisco IFF, New Directors Competition
Crossing Europe, Austria, Audience Award-Best fiction film
National Festival of Cinematography Art “Golden Eye” – Best Bulgarian Cinematography
Zlin, Czech Republic – Panorama
Cluj- Transilvania, Romania – Special Mention for Best Actors
Academy Award in Bulgaria – Best First Feature, Best Production Design and Best Actress Awards
Tarkovsky Festival, Russia
Treplice, Slovakia
Taipei, Taiwan
La Rochelle, France
Auckland/Wellington, New Zealand
Quito, Ecuador
Palic, Serbia
Manaki Brothers, Macedonia
Vukova, Croatia
Dominican Republic/Puerto Rico
Helsinki Love & Anarchy, Finland
Rencontre Films Femmes Mediterann?e ? Marseille, France
Inverness, UK
UMEA European festival, Sweden
Cinergia, Poland,
New Horizons FF – linked with EFA award Ceremony
Elles Tournent, Belgium
Annonay Festival 2017, France
PRESS QUOTES
Screen – Lee Marshall “fascinating” ; ” an odd western” ; “remarkable achievement” ; “there is something of Fellini’s La Strada here” ,
“This is very much a film about five lost people: and it’s a remarkable achievement, on the part of the director, the writers and the actors, that we care about every single one of them”.
Cineuropa – Stefan Dobroiu
“An aesthetic achievement”.
The Guardian – Samuel Goff
“Tsotsorkova traces an oblique narrative of suspicion and sexuality”.
feature film
2014, Bulgaria, 126 min, color, Stereo 5.1, DCP / English subtitles
Director – GEORGI DJULGEROV
Annotation
The main character, Todor Cherkezov, has survived a car crash in which he lost/killed his wife. He himself was left half- blind. A man of vision, a film director, Todor Cherkezov has several dreams, which at first glance have no narrative connection. One plotline does unite them, however – the main character’s egoism.
In the first dream, he neglects his mother’s memory because of his sexual attraction towards Irina, his wife, but… In the second dream, Todor is just about to cheat on his wife, but… In the third dream, Todor stops his wife by force when she wants to leave him, but… In the fourth dream, Todor manages to save his own life with his wife’s help, but… In the fifth dream, Todor sacrifices himself for another person for the first time, but… In the sixth dream, Todor is in the buffer zone, between life and the beyond – and is seeking forgiveness for his sins, but… In real life, he is formally acquitted, but…
Scriptwriter – GEORGI DJULGEROV
Director – GEORGI DJULGEROV
DoP – GEORGI CHELEBIEV
Music – MIRA ISKAROVA, HRISTO NAMLIEV
Producers – SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA, NADEJDA KOSEVA – FRONT FILM
Production – FRONT FILM with the support of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTER in co-production with NU BOYANA FILM STUDIOS, BULGARIAN NATIONAL TELEVISION, AUDIOVIDEO “ORPHEUS”
Awards
THE UNION OF BULGARIAN FILMMAKERS AWARD – GOLDEN ROSE FILM FESTIVAL, VARNA 2014
2009, Bulgaria, fiction, 75 min, b/w
Director – LYUBOMIR MLADENOV
Annotation
Neda and Andrei meet by accident in the city and wander around it together. Alienation finds tenderness and selfrediscovery is possible solely through meeting with the other. The setting for this meeting are the city streets.
Cast
ELENA PETROVA, HRISTO PETKOV
Crew
Writer – LYUBOMIR MLADENOV
Director – LYUBOMIR MLADENOV
DoP – Anton Bakarsky, Georgi Chelebiev
Editing – LYUBOMIR MLADENOV, NINA ALTAPARMAKOVA
Sound – MOMCHIL BOZHKOV
Producers – Nedejda Koseva, Svetla Tsotsorkova
Production – FRONT FILM in co-production with CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS
Contact:
Front Film
7 Victor Grigorovic Str, ap.5 Sofia 1606, Bulgaria
Tel: +359 898 552388, +359 888 325022
Scriptwriter – IVAN VLADIMIROV
Director – IVAN VLADIMIROV
Cinematography – GEORGI CHELEBIEV
Music – NIKOLAY MADJAROV
Production Design – VICTOR ANDREEV
Producers – NADEJDA KOSEVA & SVETLA TSOTSORKOVA
Production:
FRONT FILM
with the support of BULGARIAN NATIONAL FILM CENTRE
Festivals:
LocarnoIFF’07,
Sofia IFF’07,
CottbusIFF’07,
Romance in a Can IFF ’07,
Cinema-tout-ecran IFF ’07,
KAN Festival Poland’07,
Festival International Cinema Mediterraneen, Montpellier ’08,
MedFilm Festival Italy ‘08
Awards:
Special Jury Mention – International Cinema Mediterraneen, Montpellier ’08
Best debut feature – The Bulgarian National Film Centre ‘07
Best Actress – Stefka Yanorova – The Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers ‘07
Contact:
Front Film
7 Victor Grigorovic Str, ap.5 Sofia 1606, Bulgaria
Tel: +359 898 552388, +359 888 325022
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