Petar Valchanov

The film "Triumph" by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov has been selected as Bulgaria's entry for the international film category at the 97th Academy Awards, as announced by the National Film Center.

The Bulgarian-Greek film "The Father" won the Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in the Czech Republic.

'Glory,' the second film in a planned trilogy, explores the absurdity in the true story of a reclusive Bulgarian railway worker whose life unravels after he stumbles upon a huge sum of money.

It sounds like the plot of a novel by Franz Kafka, but it's the synopsis of Glory, Bulgaria's official entry in the foreign-language Oscar race.

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.

Kinomania, one of the landmark film festivals in Sofia, begins next week, offering both newly released movies and masterpieces of the past few decades.

Pedro Almodóvar's Julieta, Woody Allen's Cafe Society, and Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge will be among the movies to be screened at eight venues around the Bulgarian capital.

In last week's list of movie reviews, The Guardian included the Bulgarian-Greek drama "Urok" ("The Lesson"), which has just been released in cinemas in the United Kingdom.

The movie, which is directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, tells the story of Nadezhda (played by Margita Gosheva), a schoolteacher who wants to teach a thief in her class a lesson.

The three films competing for the 2015 LUX Prize were announced on in Rome by EP Vice-President Antonio Tajani and culture committee chair Silvia Costa, at the Venice Days press conference.

The Lesson, a 2014 Bulgarian-Greek film, is among the ten works nominated to the Lux Prize at this year's edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

"The Lesson" (Bulgarian: Urok), a 2014 Bulgarian-Greek film directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, has won four awards at the 19th Sofia International Film Festival.

"The Lesson snatched four awards at a ceremony on Saturday evening.

The film received three awards by international juries and the audience award.