Podcast in English
Text size
Bulgarian National Radio © 2025 All Rights Reserved

Bulgarian documentary film receives prize at festival in Armenia

Photo: picture library

The documentary “Three candles: scars from the Balkan wars” directed by Diana Zaharieva, so-screenplay writer with Gospodin Nedelchev, has won the prize Best Interpretation in the special competition program Independence of the Sose International Film Festival in Yerevan, Armenia. The film recounts the story of a Bulgarian soldier, a hero from the Balkan wars. The mysterious story represents a point of view to what caused the first and the second Balkan wars, the latter better known in history as Interallied. The film shot in Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia and Greece is about events which create and continue to fuel tensions in the Balkans in the course of close to a century. It shows little known but horrifying facts about the Balkan tragedy of the time.




Последвайте ни и в Google News Showcase, за да научите най-важното от деня!
Listen to the daily news from Bulgaria presented in "Bulgaria Today" podcast, available in Spotify.

More from category

Svoboda Bachvarova

We mark 100 years since the birth of author and screenwriter Svoboda Bachvarova

The truth is a blessing for those who are ready to go to the end. These words belong to author and screenwriter Svoboda Bachvarova, whose 100th birthday is celebrated on January 11. According to her, cynicism is the biggest blow to humanity. Fired..

published on 1/11/25 12:13 PM
Anna Mutavska

Bulgaria, "Dali's Moustache" and Picasso

The connection between Bulgaria, "Dali's Moustache" and Picasso is a topic that could remain widely discussed in the next few years, and perhaps even decades. The reason for this is not related to new technologies and artificial intelligence, nor to..

published on 1/11/25 10:05 AM
Stefan Komandarev

Stefan Komandarev's new film ranks among the best co-productions

The latest project by director Stefan Komandarev, "The Block Universe", is one of the 35 selected projects at the most important global forum for film co-productions, the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Every year there are hundreds of candidates,..

published on 1/10/25 10:59 AM