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The Bulgarian proposal for the Oscars is Stefan Komandarev's film "Blaga's Lessons".

The decision of the selection committee was made unanimously, reports the National Film Center.

The film recently received the big "Crystal Globe" award for the best film at the Karlovy Vary festival, as well as a statuette for the best female role of Eli Skorcheva.

The 25th edition of the Golden Rhyton Festival for Bulgarian Documentary and Animated Cinema will be held entirely online from 4 to 10 December 2020 on the website https://zlatenriton.bg, the organizers announced.

Twelve animated and 24 documentaries were shortlisted for the competition program.

On January 13, the Bulgarian film community celebrates its professional holiday. On this day in 1915, the first Bulgarian feature film "Balgaran is Gallant" was screened, so it is celebrated as a Day of Bulgarian Cinema.

The date has been approved since 2005, at the initiative of the National Film Center, for a professional holiday of the Bulgarian film community.

The official screening of director Ilian Djevelekov's Omnipresent, is part of the Oscar race and on 30th October in a special cinema hall in the heart of Hollywood was the first of many screenings of the Bulgarian Oscar contender for Foreign Language Film for 2018 in front members of the American Film Academy, reports TransmediumNews. 

The film "Glory" by Christina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov is the Bulgarian proposal for an Oscar for a foreign language film, the National Film Center announced on its website.

The talented artist based in Canada continues to create as his new project ''Whirligig'' has been accepted for funding by the National Film Center. For many years the Bulgarian creates fascinating animated shorts praised by both critics and audience.

Her Confession is a documentary which follows the true story of a Bulgarian woman who works in Greece and becomes a leader of the trade unions in Athens, after her selfless defense of cleaning workers there.

For the 21st year Sofia International Film Festival will gather in Sofia films, guests, stars, journalists and cinema fans from March 9 until March 31, 2017.Featured in Variety's Top 50 of cinema festivals, the event presents Bulgaria to the world as the host of one of the important film festivals in Europe and takes place annually in March.

Sofia International Film Festival, one of the most important film forums in Central and Eastern Europe, will have its 20th edition from March 10 to March 31.

The shooting of Vazvishenie ("Summit"), a movie based on the award-winning book of Bulgarian writer Milen Ruskov, is to start in January, production crew have said.