April 18 

14:00 – 14:30 

“Caravaggio in Rome” 

by Rubino Rubini, 29’

Production of Rai Educational, Italy
Caravaggio comes back to Rome to see his exhibition at the Scuderie del Quirinale. Through 
a historical, oneiric and emotional trip, the greatest painter of the XVII century walks along 
the exhibition hall, while reviewing and reassessing himself, his work, his memories, his 
story as an artist and a man. A high definition documentary that leads us into every single 
painting of the great master, while taking us on the unique path of a soul.

14:30 – 15:40 

“Street Prose” 

by Galina Georgieva and Blagoslav Nikolov – 2011, 68’

Production of Studio 24, Bulgaria
Evgenia Hristova likes listening to the radio, swimming and most of all taking pictures. 
Iliyan Ruzhin anchors a radio show, travels a lot and also takes pictures. But both have 
something to tell about the city, about its past, about how they live in it today and what 
they want from it in the future. Following the lenses of the two photographers, the film 
searches for the personal faces of the city of Sofia, rather than the popular ones. 

15:40 – 16:20 

“Our merchandise is our best advertisement” 

by Ralitsa Dimitrova – 2011, 40’

Production of B Plus Film, Bulgaria
Advertising is the soul of commerce, claimed newspaper headlines in the beginning of 
the 20th century. But it also lured our fellow countrymen to go to Europe. With the Liber-
ation just a step behind, the Bulgarians were drawn into a new and inviting world of 
merchandise and temptation, which changed their mentality and way of life, and helped 
them get rid of the prejudices and become part of the common European process. 
Awarded for Best Documentary at the Festival of Historical Films 2012.

April 19 

14:00 – 15:00 

“Kusturica. Balkan’s Bad Boy”

 by Georgi Toshev and Yavor Veselinov – 2012 , 60’

Production of ShortCut Production 2012 with the support of bTV, Bulgaria

A film director, an actor, a musician, an organizer of festivals, a husband, a father, a 

grandfather, a friend, a professor… This film is an unexpected meeting with one of the 

most controversial and fascinating European film directors – Emir Kusturica. A tale about 

the battles he won and the ones he lost. About the everlasting curiosity in filmmaking. 

Awarded with Grand Prix Golden Eagle (ex-aequo) at the Document.Art – The Interna-

tional Festival if Documentary Films (Romania), 2012

15:00 – 15:30 

“IM KREIS. Music for 12 cellos” 

by Agnes Padrol Sureda and Julia Obiols Rovira, 29’

Production of Agnes Padrol Sureda and Julia Obiols Rovira, Spain

Circling, Music for 12 cellos, is a creative documentary that shows a new surrounding 

sound experience. Music for 12 cellos is a contemporary experimental piece which sur-

rounds, literally, the audience, since the audience sit just in the midst of the 12 perform-

ing cellists. The composer, Jay Schwartz, composed this piece for Plusminus12, a group of 

12 cellists with an extraordinary talent and in search for excellence, one of the best youth 

orchestras in Germany. The documentary makes over  the piece’s cyclical structure and 

does a tour through the different hours (musicians) to deepen into the piece complexity, 

the experience of listening to it and, of course, the Plusminus12’s inside and its director.

15:30 – 16:35 

“A Concise History of Socialist Realism”

 by Ivan Georgiev Gets, 2012, 65’

Production of CINEMAQ Ltd./BNT, Bulgaria

The documentary film explores historically the phenomenon of the Socialist Realism. 

Using a lot of archives, footage, photos, documents and analysis of the processes in art, 

the authors show the clearest manifestations of the Socialism Realism and trace the 

origin, bloom and the decline of this method. With pain and humor the film tells dra-

matic human stories and shows the works of talented authors and artists in Bulgaria. 

The film also reveals the conditions in which the artists lived and worked and shows 

how the cultural policy of the USSR dominated the processes in the country and the 

entire socialist region.

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