- Occupation
Producer, Director - Country
Bulgaria
Bonev Kostadin
Europolis, The Town of the Delta
In 1933 Eugeniu Botez, an engineer and a commandant of the harbour of Sulina, wrote a novel. He entitled it "Europolis" and signed it under the name of Jean Bart. A year later he died. In this strange novel Jean Bart prophesies that one day nothing will be left from the town, once full of life. With the death of Europolis Europe will be slowly dying in pains. A few years later his prophecy started to come true...
Classification of the Memories
Doctor Lubomir Kanov is a famous Bulgarian psychiatrist. For more than fifteen years he has been a psychiatrist in New York, director of the clinic Rockville Centre. At the age of 33, doctor Kanov was accused of campaigning and propagandizing ideas detrimental to the Socialist system. Due to this, he was detained for about two years in the prison in Stara Zagora. After the opening of the personal files in the early 90’s, Lubomir Kanov gained access to his personal file learning for the first time things he had only guessed about. Today, he has forgiven everybody, the informers as well as those who gave witness against him fearing for their own life.
In 1933 Eugeniu Botez, an engineer and a commandant of the harbour of Sulina, wrote a novel. He entitled it "Europolis" and signed it under the name of Jean Bart. A year later he died. In this strange novel Jean Bart prophesies that one day nothing will be left from the town, once full of life. With the death of Europolis Europe will be slowly dying in pains. A few years later his prophecy started to come true...
Classification of the Memories
Doctor Lubomir Kanov is a famous Bulgarian psychiatrist. For more than fifteen years he has been a psychiatrist in New York, director of the clinic Rockville Centre. At the age of 33, doctor Kanov was accused of campaigning and propagandizing ideas detrimental to the Socialist system. Due to this, he was detained for about two years in the prison in Stara Zagora. After the opening of the personal files in the early 90’s, Lubomir Kanov gained access to his personal file learning for the first time things he had only guessed about. Today, he has forgiven everybody, the informers as well as those who gave witness against him fearing for their own life.
Bulgarian director, born in 1951 in Tryavna. He graduated from the Higher Institute of Economics in Sofia and studied theater at the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1980. He specialized further in film and TV direction under the guidance of Georgi Diulgerov at the Higher Institute of Theatrical Arts in 1990. His film Letters to the Underworld won two prizes in Varna and a prize for the best film in St. Petersburg in 1995. The critics gave special awards to Under a Cloud and The Patience of a Stone at the Festival “Golden Rhyton” in Plovdiv. The latter film was awarded the "Silver Vityaz" in Kiev.
Scriptwriter and director of more than twenty documentaries.
Winner of many national and international awards: Grand Prix Centaur for best documentary – St. Petersbug’95, Prix Europa - Berlin’98, Silver Knight Prize – Kiev’98, Special prize of the Jury – Munich’99
2005 The Ships are full - documentary, 64 min.
2002 Warming Up Yesterday’s Lunch – feature, 98 min.
Palm Springs’2003 – Oscar foreign language submissions, Moscow’2003 – Official Selection, Karlovy Vary’2003, Montreal’2003; Pussan’2003, Mumbai’2003;
2000 1 9 3 4 – documentary, 64 min.
1998 The Patience of the Stone - documentary, 50 min.
1997 Under a Cloud - documentary, 92 min.
1994 Letters to the Nether World - documentary, 35 min.
1991 Dream Hunters /A Documentary about Balkan Naïve Artists/ - 96 min.