Filmmaker Stephan Komandarev, whose credits include two previous Bulgarian Oscar entries including the shortlisted The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner, wrapped a movie trilogy about ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria — Petar Stanchev is the kind of student Bulgaria needs to keep. Last year, according to the country’s Association of Private Universities, more than half of its college-bound students ...

Gaining international prominence with his 2008 festival hit The World Is Big And Salvation Lurks Around The Corner, director Stephan Komandarev has continued to make both fiction and documentary ...

The resignation of Bulgaria’s government after violent protests is a warning for other European countries. Even amid signs that the worst of the eurozone problems and associated downturn may be past, ...

The film. written and directed by Stephan Komandarev, will hit theaters in Germany in January through distributor JIP Film. Following an October 20 limited release, Blaga’s Lessons will go wide in ...

This may be the comeback of the decade. In her first film role in almost 30 years, Bulgarian actress Eli Skorcheva — who had gone into self-exile from cinema, changing careers and working odd jobs ...

Powered by a superb Eli Skorcheva as an elderly widow sinking into the underworld, Stephan Komandarev's latest merges spiraling tragedy with perilously dark farce. Premiering in the main competition ...