Bulgaria’s capital Sofia hosts the 11th edition of the Sofia MENAR film festival. This year the festival is dedicated to feature films, documentaries and short projects from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa. The visitors of Sofia MENAR festival can enjoy 40 cinema productions selected among over 1,000 movie proposals. According to one of the criteria used during the selection of the film productions, the movies must be laureates at international film festivals in their region. The cinema nights, followed by discussions, are held each year from the middle until the end of January. Their purpose is to make the Bulgarian audience familiar with the culture and traditions of the Islam World.
"Once upon a time in Bologna they built a palace made of ice cream right in the Grand Piazza and children came from far and wide to have a taste" - with these words begins the story "The Palace of Ice Cream" from the book "Telephone Tales" by Gianni..
A film crew led by producer Nikolay Urumov and cameramen Mihail Yanakiev and Kiril Bozhilov are visiting the "Little Bulgaria" Center and the "Little Bulgarian School" in Chicago from March 20 to April 2. The purpose of the visit is..
On the occasion of Vera Mutafchieva’s 95th birth anniversary, the National Endowment Fund "13 Centuries Bulgaria" presented the English translation of her book "The Case of Cem". Translator Angela Rodel said she felt a great..
The Wilson Gallery and Museum in the British town of Cheltenham displays a unique collection of paintings by a Bulgarian emigrant who lived and..
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