Dimitar Dereliev

Filmmaker Hermann Vaske explores the creative Balkan world in the hopes of understanding the meaning of "Balkan spirit".

An uncompromising chronicle of the days after the nuclear accident at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, which occurred on 04/26/1986. The leaders of the state watch from the screen and lie brazenly and unceremoniously, without fear or shame to their own people, from whom the terrible truth about the consequences is hidden.

The Central Railway Station in Sofia and its permanent guests — the homeless, beggars, prostitutes, and Roma children. Seven of the night dwellers of the underground passageways tell different fairy-tale or tragic stories about themselves, yet none of them complains about their way of life. In the documentary film “Neon Fairy Tales”, the parents of the little Roma children do not drive them into the forest, as in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” but send them to the train station to get rid of them, because they cannot support them. Thus begins the difficult path of survival for homeless children. An inexhaustible source of “resources” are trash bins, sleeping near the warm pipes in the underground tunnels, a small bag of acetone glue, as well as the kindness of merciful people…

An uncompromising chronicle of the days after the nuclear accident at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, which occurred on 04/26/1986. The leaders of the state watch from the screen and lie brazenly and unceremoniously, without fear or shame to their own people, from whom the terrible truth about the consequences is hidden.

The Central Railway Station in Sofia and its permanent guests — the homeless, beggars, prostitutes, and Roma children. Seven of the night dwellers of the underground passageways tell different fairy-tale or tragic stories about themselves, yet none of them complains about their way of life. In the documentary film “Neon Fairy Tales”, the parents of the little Roma children do not drive them into the forest, as in the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel,” but send them to the train station to get rid of them, because they cannot support them. Thus begins the difficult path of survival for homeless children. An inexhaustible source of “resources” are trash bins, sleeping near the warm pipes in the underground tunnels, a small bag of acetone glue, as well as the kindness of merciful people…