The Way Monkeys Descended from Man

Courage without truth. Truth in secret. A secret without a way out. Exit without salvation... Which is the right path of change?

When a tired factory worker Christo Panov going home from work gets embroiled with a dispute with a bus driver, leading to threats of assault by the driver, that's bad enough. Then an irate passenger files charges against the driver. After the driver appears on the factory worker's doorstep with his wife and three children, pleading with him not to testify, he easily agrees. However, soon he learns that the woman who brought charges against the driver is now being charged by with slander. No matter what he does, someone will suffer unneccessarily.

The intricate relations between an Artist, an Actress and a Poet are seen against the background of one of the most dramatic events in the recent history of Bulgaria: uprising, which broke out in 1923.

A team of climbers are preparing for their new mountain climbing expedition. They are brought together by their mutual love for this dangerous sport, for its challenges. They, however, differ in tempers, in problems and notions of honor and dignity. Already up in the mountain, they are expected to pull themselves together to the full, in order to succumb to the will of the leader and forget about the tensions, accumulated among the members of the team. The team of young mountaineers is scaling a difficult summit, but mid-way they are buried by an avalanche. Caught in the deadly vortex, each of the characters relieves the cherished moments of his or her life. Each character illustrates a separate theme. Nayden has to cope with the problems of leadership. Nikifor is his rival, who is destined to be the perennial number two. The Man ho Is Sensitive to Cold is preoccupied with the subject of friendship. Matters that are typically artist absorb the Poet, The Sculptor and the Cameraman.

The Tesla case is a contemporary story about the adventures of the ten-year-old Tony and Raya, who have become friends after the previous Curie case. As a promising young "inventor," Tony develops a wireless synthesis device inspired by eccentric scientist Nikola Tesla. Tony strongly believes that his discovery will solve the global energy crisis. For his disappointment he had to go to camp with his classmates. He calls for a company his beloved girlfriend and neighbor Raya, who gladly welcomes her because she is once again abandoned by her eternally traveling parents. Surviving nature will not be the only obstacle that Tony expects to be. Chief of local scouts, Victor, is jealous of Tony, decides to break his scientific experiments and win the heart of Paradise as she unfolds the mystery of a mysterious werewolf wandering in the woods.

Nikolay and Delya live all alone in a farm near the city, when one day their daughter Kalina visits them with her new family.

A film pioneer, Binka Zhelyazkova was at the forefront of political cinema under Bulgaria's Communist dictatorship. Though she remained faithful to the communist ideals she became an avid critic of the regime and brought upon herself the wrath of its censorship. As a result four of her nine films were shelved and released to the public only after the fall of the regime in 1989, and Binka Zhelyazkova became known as the bad girl of Bulgarian cinema. A provocative portrait that reveals the pressures and complexities that arise when art is made under totalitarianism.

This is a film about old fashioned Bulgarian customs and moral rules. A pre-arranged marriage of two children is no obstacle to true love.

Maya lives in Burgas on the coast of the Black Sea. She's a young woman trying to find herself. The film features the poetry of Petya Dubarova and is loosely inspired by her life.