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The Journey of a Mattress

2025 Movie Comedy Drama

A film intertwining three stories of individuals seeking meaning and connection: estranged sisters reconciling at their mother's deathbed, a flea market seller confronting purposelessness, and two grifters trapped in a cycle of searching.

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The end of the 70s. Anton Krastev, a DOP and his wife Diana are separated by the Iron curtain - she fled with their son Antoan to Western Berlin while he stayed in Bulgaria. She believes that Antoan can only be cured in Germany. But Anton can't live without his job. He works with the best film director who is a high ranking Communist. The State Security Services are keeping a zealous eye on Anton. His phone calls are being taped, his letters are being read. His close relations to the power people of the day make him even more suspicious. The State Security Services put an end to Anton's relation with his wife. Thorn apart, Anton and Diana go through love, alienation and hate. There comes a time though when the powerful friends of Anton lose their power and he loses everything that he's ever loved - his work, his wife and son. Thirty years later Anton shoots the story of his own life. But those who now direct the movie are the very same people who once persecuted him.

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2010 Drama
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In a small Bulgarian village, two estranged sisters, Lina and Mila, reunite for their father’s funeral, only to find themselves caught in a whirlwind of absurd and comical misunderstandings. Accompanied by Lina’s foreign boyfriend, George, the family faces a series of chaotic events — swapped bodies, broken hearses, chicken chases, unexpected calls from beyond the grave, and heartfelt confessions. Amid the unfolding chaos, the sisters begin to mend their relationship, and Lina realizes just how important her roots truly are.

The Funeral

2025 Comedy
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Bulgaria, the night of October 18, 1922. A rampageous young man - an American, is forced to get off the Orient Express at a small station. The chief of the railway station and his daughter are quite unwilling to put up the stranger. Gradually, the American wins their trust. When the father understands that his daughter has decided to go away to Paris with the American, he makes a potion to sedate him and gets him on a train on the sly. In the morning all that has left from the guest is a piece of paper, which reads "Ernest Hemingway".

A Farewell to Hemingway

2008 Drama
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In the heart of a small Bulgarian village, two estranged sisters, Lina and Mila, reunite for their father’s funeral, only to find themselves embroiled in a series of absurd and comical misadventures. Accompanied by Lina’s foreign boyfriend George, the family navigates confused corpses, broken hearses, chicken chases, unexpected phone calls from the afterlife, and poignant revelations. Despite all the chaos that unfolds, the two sisters manage to iron out their differences, and Lina realizes the importance of her roots.

The Funeral

2025 Comedy

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