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A list of the most notable films produced (at least partly) in Bulgaria during the 2010s ordered by year of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Bulgarian films, see Category:Bulgarian films.
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| Title | English title | Director | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Хотел Рай | Paradise Hotel | Sophia Tzavella | [ citation needed ] | |
| Мисия Лондон | Mission London | Dimitar Mitovski | Ralph Brown, Alan Ford | [ citation needed ] |
| Лов на дребни хищници | HDSP: Hunting Down Small Predators | Cvetodar Markov | [ citation needed ] |
| Title | Title (Latin) English | Director | Length | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Тилт | Tilt | Viktor Chouchkov | |||
| Love.net | Ilian Djevelekov | ||||
| Kecove | Sneakers | Valeri Yordanov | |||
| Операция „Шменти капели“ | Operation Shmenti Capelli | Ivan Mitov | |||
| Лора от сутрин до вечер | Lora from Morning Till Evening | Dimitar Kotzev | |||
| Avé | Konstantin Bojanov | ||||
| Title | Title (Latin) English | Director | Length | Cast | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sofia's Last Ambulance | Sofia's Last Ambulance | Ilian Metev | [ citation needed ] |
| Opening date | Title | Title (Latin) English | Director | Length | Cast and Crew | Studio | Genre | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan. 06 | Kafe Lale - the film | Velizar Borev | |||||||
| Jan. 17 | Rapid Response Corps 2: Nuclear Threat | Stanislav Donchev | Action | ||||||
| Feb. 14 | Живи легенди | Living Legends | Niki Iliev | Niki Iliev | Mystery | [1] | |||
| Mar. | Rat poison | Konstantin Burov | Comedy | ||||||
| Mar. 06 | Съдилището | The Judgement | Stephan Komandarev | Assen Blatechki | Drama | [2] | |||
| Mar. 09 | Immunity | Raymond Steers | Thriller | ||||||
| Mar. 29 | The Savior | Robert Savo | Biography | ||||||
| Apr. 08 | The Expendables 3 | The Expendables 3 | Patrick Hughes | Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Antonio Banderas, Jet Li, Wesley Snipes, Dolph Lundgren, Kelsey Grammer, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell, Victor Ortiz, Robert Davi, Mel Gibson, Harrison Ford, Arnold Schwarzenegger | Lionsgate | Action | [3] | ||
| May 22 | Les Ponts de Sarajevo | Bridges of Sarajevo | Aida Begić, Leonardo Di Constanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergei Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perišić, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde | Documentary | [4] | ||||
| Jul. 27 | Proud Citizen | Thom Southerland | |||||||
| Aug. 29 | Потъването на Созопол | Sinking of Sozopol | Kostadin Bonev | 101 minutes | Deyan Donkov, Snezhina Petrova, Svetla Yancheva and Stefan Valdobrev | Drama | [ citation needed ] | ||
| Sep. | Ombre | Zahari Paunov | Drama | ||||||
| Sep. 04 | Урок | The Lesson | Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov | 111 minutes | Margita Gosheva, Ivan Barnev, Ivanka Bratoeva, Stefan Denolyubov | Film Movement | Drama | One of three finalists for the European Parliament LUX Film Prize. | [5] [6] |
| Sep. 20 | Autómata | Autómata | Gabe Ibáñez | Antonio Banderas, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Dylan McDermott, Robert Forster, Tim McInnerny, Melanie Griffith | Contracorrientes Films | Science fiction, action | [7] | ||
| Sep. 30 | Sniper: Legacy | Sniper: Legacy | Don Michael Paul | Tom Berenger, Chad Michael Collins, Dominic Mafham, Mercedes Masohn, Doug Allen, Dennis Haysbert | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | Action | [8] | ||
| Three Days in Sarajevo | Nikolay Todorov | Adventure | |||||||
| Oct. | Прелюбодеяние | Adultery | Yavor Vesselinov | Drama | |||||
| Oct. 19 | Киприянови молитви | Cyprian's Prayer | Dobromir Baychev | Drama | |||||
| Nov. 21 | Soft Bullets | Dimitar Kolev | Action | ||||||
| Nov. 28 | Българ:Филмът | Balgar: The Movie | Nedelcho Bogdanov | Animation | |||||
| Dec. 04 | Буферна зона | Buferna zona | Georgi Djulgerov | Drama | |||||
| Dec. 05 | Българска рапсодия | Bulgarian Rhapsody | Ivan Nitchev | Stefan Popov, Kristiyan Makarov, Anjela Nedyalkova | Cinepaz EOOD | Drama | [9] |
| Title | Title (Latin) English | Director | Length | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XIa | The 11th Grade | Georgi D. Kostov | 84 minutes | Yana Marinova, Nikolai Sotirov, Bashar Rahal, Ralitsa Paskaleva, Boris Kashev, Ioan Lov, Veselin Troyanov, Boyka Velkova, Stanislav Yanevski, Daria Simeonova | [10] |
| Момичето от НиЗката Земя | The Girl From The Vile Land | Nick Stanchev | 100 minutes | Georgi Grozev, Joanna Izabela-Vurbanova, Niki Stanchev and Simeon Vladov | [ citation needed ] |
| Title | Title (Latin) English | Director | Length | Cast | Genre(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Слава | Glory | Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov | 101 minutes | Stefan Denolyubov, Margita Gosheva | Drama | |
| Безбог | Godless | Ralitza Petrova | 99 minutes | Irena Ivanova, Ivan Nalbantov | Drama | A Bulgarian-Greek coproduction. Hamptons International Film Festival Award for Best Narrative Feature Film |
| Докато Ая спеше [11] | While Aya Was Sleeping | Cvetodar Markov (also spelled Tsvetodar Markov) | 88 minutes | Stefan Denolyubov | Drama | A Bulgarian-Danish-French coproduction. Golden Leopard and various other international awards. |
| XIa | XIa | Georgi Kostov | 83 minutes | Yana Marinova, Bashar Rahal | School Drama |
| Title | Title (Latin) English | Director | Length | Cast | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Бензин | Benzin | Asen Blatechki | TBA | Asen Blatechki, Kalin Vratchanski, Sully Erna | Bulgarian " The Fast and the Furious" |
| 3/4 | Ilian Metev | ||||
| Directions [12] [13] | |||||
| Western [14] | |||||
| XIIa | Magdalena Ralcheva | 93 minutes | Radina Kardzhilova, Maria Kavardzhikova, Aneliya Mangarova, Kal Minev, Deyan Georgiev, Vasilena Atanasova, Maria Bakalova, Darin Angelov, Elena Boycheva | Sequel of The 11th Grade | |
The following is an overview of the events of 2014 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies, festivals, and a list of films released and notable deaths. DreamWorks Animation celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014.
Ivan Barnev is a Bulgarian actor. He is best known for his performance as Jan Dítě in I Served the King of England (2006), as well as his frequent collaborations with filmmakers Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov in films such as The Lesson (2014), The Father (2019) and Triumph.
Paddington is a 2014 live-action animated comedy film written and directed by Paul King. It was developed from a story by King and Hamish McColl, which was based on the stories of the character Paddington Bear created by Michael Bond. Produced by David Heyman, Paddington stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of the title character, with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, and Nicole Kidman in live-action roles. The film tells the story of Paddington, an anthropomorphic bear who migrates from the jungles of "Darkest Peru" to the streets of London, where he is adopted by the Brown family. Kidman plays a taxidermist who attempts to add him to her collection.
Death in Sarajevo is a 2016 Bosnian drama film directed by Danis Tanović. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. At Berlin it won the Jury Grand Prix, as well as FIPRESCI prize for films shown in competition. It was selected as the Bosnian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated.
Glory is a 2016 Bulgarian drama film written and directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov. The second film in the directors' "newspaper-clippings trilogy", the film is a social-realist parable exploring the themes of corruption, class differences, and the rural-urban divide, in contemporary Bulgarian society. It was selected as the Bulgarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
Paint Drying is a 2023 British experimental protest film that was produced, directed and shot by Charlie Shackleton. He created the film in 2016 to protest against film censorship in the United Kingdom and the sometimes-prohibitive cost to independent filmmakers which the British Board of Film Classification's (BBFC) classification requirement imposes. The film consists of 607 minutes of a static view of white paint drying on a brick wall. Shackleton made the film to force the BBFC to watch all ten hours to give the film an age rating classification. He initially shot 14 hours' worth of footage of paint drying in 4K resolution and opened a Kickstarter campaign to pay the BBFC's per-minute rate for a film as long as possible. It raised £5,936 from 686 backers. After reviewing the film, the BBFC rated it 'U' for 'Universal', indicating "no material likely to offend or harm". Paint Drying had its first public screening at the Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia, between 10–29 November 2023 as part of the Cinema Obstructed film exhibition—for which Shackleton was co-curator.
Blaga's Lessons is a 2023 drama film directed and produced by Stephan Komandarev, who co-wrote it with Simeon Ventsislavov. The film stars Eli Skorcheva as Blaga, a retired schoolteacher in Shumen, who is grieving the recent death of her husband and falls victim to a criminal scam while trying to raise the money to pay for his gravestone.
