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"During a play my anxiety doesn't show, thank God - otherwise what am I doing on stage at all?!", she tells us when we repeat the common opinion - that she looks super confident and just blossoms under the theater spotlight. To believe us, you only need to watch for example The Same Day or Actors vs Poets performed in one of the small halls of Sfumato, to see how easily Nadya cuts the already short distance between herself and the audience and how she boldly improvises.

When his eyes fall into Gaspar Noe's Irrevesible, and then his mother plays him Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker (because she is tired of the constant horrors he carries at home) Theodore falls in love with the movements of the screen and finally says "yes, that's cool."

"Documentary cinema has some moral boundaries - I could've shot with a real family, but it seemed wrong to me. You need to always think about how how much you take from people, even if they've told you they're ok with it."

His films are focused on people who are leading a quite fight against life without happy turns. On the edge of documentary cinema, Sean Baker misses not only the sweeteners but also the artificial melodrama, showing the reality in the United States, passed by the American dream, as if he knew it from within. And this is a fact: his own life falls are almost as much as the battles he won.

She is a film director, producer and founder of Animadocs, an independent production house based in New York and Paris, and she stands behind causes that reveal the truth about our society. Maria is excited by the stories of the living life that she transforms into animation and shares with everyone open to understand. Her work uncovers problems from here to Saudi Arabia so we grab her in the pause between two travels for a quick conversation, which, however, lasted long and made us think about it for many hours.

His favourite Bulgarian writer is Elin Pelin but we put him in Yordan Yovkov's title because it sounds more like him.

If her name is a white page in your head, it is because her first book is just coming out in Bulgarian. Cosmonauts only pass has a presentation in Sofia on September 13th, along with Elitsa and her long history - she writes the novel in Paris where she lives and studies creative writing and cinema, won the Andre Debbroy Award for a debut and was nominated for a Flor prize (founded by Beigbeder) and 111th page.

You may have already heard some of the following facts - for example, how he was a psychiatrist when he was given a camera or how the news that he was selected in Cannes Film Festival was in his spam, and after unusual silence they called from there with the question "Why didn't you react, aren't you happy? ". "Of course I was happy," says Stefan Komandarev, who sends his new film Directions with rough cut so he won't miss the deadline because "one has to take risks, otherwise nothing happens".

A few weeks ago we rushed in Friday at 5 sharp to get ourselves some quick humour with the two season of the YouTube show. That's when we came across Address to the nation - a video which redirected us to an Indiegogo campaign that is raising money for season 3. 

Top notes: a slap, arousing consciousness, shattered glass, polished gun steel ignites winter skylines, worn soles in housing projects, freefalling. Heart notes: cold sweat breaks at night, burnt tracks drawn on cracked pavements. Base notes: triggers fall back, dust moves forward, flashbacks, time stands still.

He's into movies because of his father, but maintains the wick by himself: ​​he has a degree for Film studies at the National Academy Krastyo Sarafov and now shares his observations about everything that provokes him, in the site of Operation Kino. Otherwise, he likes Bergman, Lynch, Refn and Polanski, but "if I'm good in anything, it would be how the social environment is influencing the cinema." That's why today we ask Blagoy for key trends that he has captured lately - his observations start at the shared universe of the superheroes to the social horror, the clever fiction and China as bigger factor.

We meet just a few days before he leaves for Utah to see his documentary The Good Postman in the program of Sundance festival. We're saying one "bravo" for that, but his success is even greater because the jury rarely selects films that had already passed another important festival. In this case, IDFA in Amsterdam or "Cannes of documentary filmmaking," asTonislav calls it. 

"I express myself hrough my work", she says as we're ending our conversation, adding one big "thank you" to all people who enriched her vocabulary on stage or infront of the camera. The list starts with Sfumato theatre and continues to her work with the directors Kristina Grozeva and Peter Vulchanov, where she has full freedom for improvisation. This seems to be the right approach - her role as a teacher in Urok brings to her prizes for best actress from a various festivals around the world, and now we're waiting for them again for their new movie Slava. Right before its premiere, we're talking with Margita about the lesson and the glory in her life:

We met with the talented young poet/writer/theatre director and co-founder of Valeri Petrov Creative Weriting Academy just a few days after her description got another "slash" and here's what follows it: Golden Leopard for Best Actress from the Locarno Film Festival. Congrats to Rene and the cast and crew of Godless which was awarded Best Movie.

While he's staying in shadow, his camera is giving light to movies such as The Color of the Chameleon, Victoria, Shelter and The Lesson, or let's say, the best movies of our new cinema. We also saw the videoclips of Jeremy? and Bears and Hunters through his lens, so now we're turning the camera backwards to see the directions of his life, which movie hit him hard, and how "Krum, your work isn't good enough" goes to the freedom of the experiment.

His first words are: "Ask whatever you want", and after a second we already know he's serious. He's talking as if he were an old friend, but his thoughts are constantly running to No one - his full lenght debut, financed by sponsors and viewers in Indiegogo.

Today we barely hear him on the other end of the telephone line but on May 16, at Arena Armeec, the sound will be crystal clear and Hans - just a glance away from us.

They are directing partners, whose animation is built of delicate threads and silhouettes, light as dandelions. Love with Showers is their short animated movie, which won The Golden Rhyton a couple of months ago and will be screened at the International Festival of Animated Movies between 29 and 31 January. Each frame under the hand of Andrey Kulev is magical, so here, we show several and you can see the rest 6-minute story at Lumier Cinema on 30 January at 17:30.