A program celebrating the latest works of Bulgarian animation cinema.
Back to Catalogue

Bulgaria, 2024, 04’42’’, 2D animation
directors Kaya Krusteva, Ina Ibrishimova, Edith Byalkova, Kalina Krusteva, Valentin Stoynov
script Kaya Krusteva, Ina Ibrishimova, Edith Byalkova, Kalina Krusteva, Valentin Stoynov
A mischievous little boy overeats with Turkish delights. He gets excited by the sugar and drifts from one adventure to another. His adventures gravitate between reality and childhood fantasy, and each time they become more and more dangerous until the whole house collapses.


Bulgaria, 2024, 14’59’’, mixed media
director Maria Nikolova
script Maria Nikolova
The Paper Minotaur takes care of the maze of books. In his office there is an electronic board. It shows the number of readers who are currently reading a book. No readers means death to the book. The lives of the books are at stake.
Books can change the lives of its readers, but readers can influence the existence of literary characters too.


Bulgaria, 2025, 01’22’’, hand-drawn animation
director Magdalena Kalieva
script Magdalena Kalieva
A wild horse cannot be locked and tamed in a confined space. Fear for freedom. THE KEY. Wanted.


Bulgaria, 2025, 05’54’’, stop-motion animation
director Blagoslava Kirilova, Denislava Georgieva, Evgeni Ganchev
script Blagoslava Kirilova, Denislava Georgieva, Evgeni Ganchev
Pippi Longstocking sets out to bake a birthday cake for her Mr. Nilsson. What could possibly go wrong?


Bulgaria, 2024, 10’45’’, mixed media
director Veselin Dochev
script Veselin Dochev, Silviq Vladimirova
‘The Embroidery Fairytale’ is a story inspired by Bulgarian folklore in which we come across mythical creatures, love, and magical music that have the power to change the world.


Bulgaria, 2024, 03’53’’, 2D animation
director Zlatelina Tsokova
script Zlatelina Tsokova
Anxiety spirals out of control, escalating into a train apocalypse.


Bulgaria, 2024, 01’32’’, 2D animation
director Nikola Radulovikj
script Nikola Radulovikj
Grandmas having trouble putting the baby to sleep.


Bulgaria, 2025, 09’39’’, cutout animation
director Teodor Ralev
script Teodor Ralev
In a dark messy burrow, a reclusive raven lives shut off from the outside world - until a spirited nightingale, an opera singer, moves into the floor above, disrupting his carefully kept peace.


Bulgaria, 2024, 12’00’’, mixed media
director Dimitar Dimitrov
script Dilyan Elenkov
A story about the search for truth, warmth, and meaning in the emotional labyrinth of stress and alienation that encompasses the modern human being.


Bulgaria, 2025, 6’27’’, 2D animation
director Kristian Georgiev
script Kristian Georgiev
The doctor is a genius plastic surgeon. He fulfills all dreams and desires and gives his patients true happiness. His glory is unsurpassed, and the whole city lines up at his studio.


Bulgaria, 2024, 09’00’’, 2D animation
director Andrey Tsvetkov
script Vasil Sotirov
An ordinary peasant, Uncle Kutsan, finds his life transformed when a tiny chick falls from the sky into his hands — a fragile creature he must teach to fly.


Bulgaria, 2025, 04’06’’, 2D animation
director Dea Tchipeva, Maria Dimova
script Dea Tchipeva, Maria Dimova
Accustomed to worship and applause, a creature lives in luxury - until the moment it receives a minor critique from one of its seemingly insignificant little followers.


Bulgaria, 2024, 3’50’’, 2D animation
director Aleksa Trayanova
script Aleksa Trayanova
Caged inside the dystopian landscape of a square office, a white collar worker lights the fire within. He learns that mixing the search for salvation with alcohol is a deadly combination.


Bulgaria, 2025, 10’00’’, 2D animation
director Katya Mankova
script Katia Mankova, Anna Topaldjikova
The film is inspired by the poetry of Alexander Vutimski - Bulgarian poet of the generation of the 1930-40 years. The young man lives in two realities - in the solitude of his room from where he observes life outside through the window and in the imaginary incarnation of his second self - Blue Boy, with whom he shares the poetic world of his fantasy.


Bulgaria, 2024, 06’23’’, 2D animation
director Mira Yankova
script Mira Yankova
Before our very eyes a strange human-bird hybrid undergoes constant transformation to cope with the omnipresent tensions of economical, ideological, military, and climatic threats.


Bulgaria, 2025, 00’50’’, mixed media
director Kaya Krusteva
script Kaya Krusteva
A dog is scared of being evil. It lives in a student dorm and is making a confession.


Bulgaria, 2025, 02’07’’, 2D animation
director Vladislav Ivanov
script Vladislav Ivanov
A story of a meeting in a doctor’s office, the discovery of a natural phenomenon and an attempt to study it through the prism of absurdity in life and death.
An animation based on the short story “Comprehensive research” by Daniil Kharms.


Bulgaria, 2025, 01’26’’, 2D animation
director Ina Ibrishimova
script Ina Ibrishimova
A little lizard tries to balance stones while holding a blue ball— a symbol of the trust it has received. The story shows its fear of failure. In the end, despite breaking the sphere, the lizard manages to climb to the top and overcome its fear.