Valentin Tanev

In the Heart of the Machine (2022)

Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hosta ...

From Here to Here (2021)

In the midst of his crumbling reality, Yavor, the youngest inhabitant of a small Bulgarian village, dreams of another world - a world of possibilities. ...

Coziness (2019)

Serious family relationships in a comedic aspect - fate, money, neighbors, the future, how we live, at what pace, what we give, what we want, how we get away. ...

Hindemidth (2008)

Two very similar families are settling in two identical houses in a new fashionable neighborhood built near a complex of panel-apartment buildings. The couples are in their forties. The husbands are moderate professionals and the wives are housewives witho ...

Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore (2008)

Monkeys in Winter (2006)

Dona, Lukrecie and Tana - three women of different origins and destinies, whose stories unfold at different times. The tale of the Romany woman Dona begins in the 1960s. The only assets this beautiful and vital woman has are her three children fathered by ...

Frozen Dream (2005)

In secret institute in the mid 80s of last century, experiments are conducted to freeze people. The similarity of the two names confused destinies of several people. Twenty years later, accidentally frozen man wakes up in a new and very different world abs ...

A Love to Hide (2005)

A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Je ...

Rosy Pelican Reserve (2004)

The film is a children comedy about six fat boys who experience great adventures while fighting hunger. They realize what friendship means and finally turn into little men. ...

Another Possible Life (2004)

A man and a woman meet again after many years - on the territory and circumstances of post-socialist Bulgaria. A university graduate and poetess, forced to adapt herself to the new social environment, she survives in her own country as a tram driver. Havin ...

The Rage (2002)

A young man attempts to save a prostitute from a prostitution ring. His fury is two-sided: on one hand, it is caused by the futility of honesty, on the other hand, it is caused by the triumphs of treachery. ...

Fate as a Rat (2001)

It is a story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is raw. Their concepts of man's dignity, friendship and duty are wrong and primitive. The film helps us to unders ...

Dog's Home (2000)

A retired opera female singer terrorizes people and animals because of her love for a 20-year old boy (in the days of the Total Solar Eclipse 1999). ...

East/West (1999)

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to ...

Сомбреро блус (1999)

Rock musicians from Plovdiv arrive at a little village pub named "Nirvana" to perform. Pub visitors accept neither them, nor their music. Thrown out from their hotel, the rock musicians put up at Tosho the Gypsy's house, Tosho being somebody who searches f ...