Kosta Karakashyan

Inspired by the events of the 2001 'Indigo' club tragedy in Sofia and similar recent cases in Europe, a raw, distinctly female portrayal of adolescent friendship, the intensity of girlhood and the heartbreak of bonds that fall apart, set against the social realities of 2000s post-socialist Bulgaria as the country steps into the European Union.

They follows two university professors over the course of a day. Lyudmil begins a new position at the university where Miho, the older chairman of the department, is busy juggling the social pressures of work and family. In the end, the two are seen living together as a couple, tender but cautious to keep their relationship secret.

A singular night out leads best friends Andrei and Lucho to an unexpected liberation.

A poetic documentary that highlights four of the most captivating Bulgarian male dancers and lifts the curtain on who they are and why they dance. Combining their original performances with first-person documentary accounts, the film traces each man's personal relationship with dance to understand how it interacts with the idea of masculinity in Bulgarian society.

A young Bulgarian man, riding the endless rollercoaster of workouts, anonymous sex, and dopamine, asks how to finally get off in a world where the body is everything. The film explores the obsession of queer men with their bodies as an object of desire, pleasure, and self-confidence and probes how the body is weaponized in fitness, sex, and hookup culture. Collecting footage from video games, 3D scans, online conversations, and archive footage of the ideal male body, the film asks if it is possible to completely detach from our bodies in this supersexual culture.

"In Her Skin" weaves together movement and narrative to reveal the interplay between the private and the public in the everyday lives of five women in a small town where nothing ever stays hidden.

Inspired by the events of the 2001 'Indigo' club tragedy in Sofia and similar recent cases in Europe, a raw, distinctly female portrayal of adolescent friendship, the intensity of girlhood and the heartbreak of bonds that fall apart, set against the social realities of 2000s post-socialist Bulgaria as the country steps into the European Union.

They follows two university professors over the course of a day. Lyudmil begins a new position at the university where Miho, the older chairman of the department, is busy juggling the social pressures of work and family. In the end, the two are seen living together as a couple, tender but cautious to keep their relationship secret.

They follows two university professors over the course of a day. Lyudmil begins a new position at the university where Miho, the older chairman of the department, is busy juggling the social pressures of work and family. In the end, the two are seen living together as a couple, tender but cautious to keep their relationship secret.

They follows two university professors over the course of a day. Lyudmil begins a new position at the university where Miho, the older chairman of the department, is busy juggling the social pressures of work and family. In the end, the two are seen living together as a couple, tender but cautious to keep their relationship secret.

A singular night out leads best friends Andrei and Lucho to an unexpected liberation.

A poetic documentary that highlights four of the most captivating Bulgarian male dancers and lifts the curtain on who they are and why they dance. Combining their original performances with first-person documentary accounts, the film traces each man's personal relationship with dance to understand how it interacts with the idea of masculinity in Bulgarian society.

A young Bulgarian man, riding the endless rollercoaster of workouts, anonymous sex, and dopamine, asks how to finally get off in a world where the body is everything. The film explores the obsession of queer men with their bodies as an object of desire, pleasure, and self-confidence and probes how the body is weaponized in fitness, sex, and hookup culture. Collecting footage from video games, 3D scans, online conversations, and archive footage of the ideal male body, the film asks if it is possible to completely detach from our bodies in this supersexual culture.

"In Her Skin" weaves together movement and narrative to reveal the interplay between the private and the public in the everyday lives of five women in a small town where nothing ever stays hidden.

A visit with friends to the Bulgarian seaside during the July Morning celebration leads Simo to a chance meeting with the enigmatic Jorgen, sparking an unexpected attraction.

A visit with friends to the Bulgarian seaside during the July Morning celebration leads Simo to a chance meeting with the enigmatic Jorgen, sparking an unexpected attraction.

Despite his family’s efforts to repress his artistic tendencies, a charismatic young boy grows up to become Miro Kirov, Bulgaria’s most popular popstar. In the last years of socialist Bulgaria, he signs a record deal with a powerful producer with political influence, who urges him to hide every intimate detail about his life on the road to success. As his fame increases and the influence he has on society seduces him, the tension between the financial and social comfort of his position and his desire to live an authentic life sends Miro’s career into a downward spiral. Under the producer’s web of political control and overwhelming influence, Miro becomes embroiled in a twisted game of corruption of the mind.

Despite his family’s efforts to repress his artistic tendencies, a charismatic young boy grows up to become Miro Kirov, Bulgaria’s most popular popstar. In the last years of socialist Bulgaria, he signs a record deal with a powerful producer with political influence, who urges him to hide every intimate detail about his life on the road to success. As his fame increases and the influence he has on society seduces him, the tension between the financial and social comfort of his position and his desire to live an authentic life sends Miro’s career into a downward spiral. Under the producer’s web of political control and overwhelming influence, Miro becomes embroiled in a twisted game of corruption of the mind.

Despite his family’s efforts to repress his artistic tendencies, a charismatic young boy grows up to become Miro Kirov, Bulgaria’s most popular popstar. In the last years of socialist Bulgaria, he signs a record deal with a powerful producer with political influence, who urges him to hide every intimate detail about his life on the road to success. As his fame increases and the influence he has on society seduces him, the tension between the financial and social comfort of his position and his desire to live an authentic life sends Miro’s career into a downward spiral. Under the producer’s web of political control and overwhelming influence, Miro becomes embroiled in a twisted game of corruption of the mind.

It is a documentary dance film revealing the harsh reality of LGBTQ+ persecution in the Chechen region of Russia. The contents of the film were inspired by testimonials of the arrests, torture, and blackmail that gay Chechens were subjected to throughout 2017.