The worldwide famous harvest has begun Saturday in the ‘valley of the roses‘ close to Kazanlak in central Bulgaria. From May 19 to June 24, the town Kazanlak will host the 2012 Rose Festival. The program each week is dedicated to the elements of nature – fire, water, air, and earth, and to the Bulgarian rose. It opens with a performance dedicated [...]
Hit Bulgarian crime TV series “Pod Prikritie” (i.e. “Undercover“) will be featured in the 2012 edition of the Days of Bulgarian Cinema in Rome, an annual film forum, the Bulgarian National Television announced. The fifth edition of the Days of Bulgarian Cinema in Rome is starting Wednesday night, May 9, 2012, in the Italian capital. It is organized by the Bulgarian Cultural [...]
Bulgarian movie ”Tilt” was bestowed the Best International Feature award at the Independent Filmmakers Showcase in Los Angeles, California. The film, which was Bulgaria’s nomination for the Oscars in the foreign film category, did not make the final five cut, but remains one of the most popular foreign features at California‘s film fests. This is the second award, received in the course of [...]
Bulgarian crime thriller “Operation: Shmenti Capelli” won the first prize for best film at the film festival DetectiveFEST, which is taking place in Moscow. This is the debut of Vladislav Karamfilov, aka Vladi Vargala, as film director and tells the tale of a mystery string of crimes modelled after Bulgarian real lfie. “Operation: Shmenti Capelli” [...]
The annual celebration of World Book Day will be held on Monday, April 23, the day commemorating the death of two of the most famous authors – William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. On this occasion, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) encourages all the people, particularly children and youths, to read more and [...]
Dominic Miller, the Argentine-English guitarist best known for his long-time association with Sting, will please quality music fans in Bulgaria with a concert on May 29. The musician, whom many describe as the right and left hand of Sting, will promote his new album “5th House” at the Antique Roman Theatre in the city of Plovdiv. Miller [...]
Hundreds of relatives, friends and fans paid their last respects on Saturday to renowned actor Naum Shopov, who went down in history for his roles as King Lear and Tsar Boris III. Shopov died Wednesday at the Lozenets University Hospital where he was admitted three days earlier with heart problems. He was 81. Shopov’s debut in cinema was [...]
American mega star pop singer and songwriter, Lady Gaga, has confirmed her August 14 concert in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, but the show might not materialize. The concert is scheduled to take place at the National “Vasil Levski” stadium in downtown Sofia. According to Darik radio and its sports site gong.bg, citing unnamed sources, the [...]
The sixteenth edition of the Sofia International Film Festival, one of the main film events in the Balkan region, is set to begin on Monday. The feature film Ave of Bulgarian director Konstantin Bozhanov will be shown at the official opening of the festival scheduled for 7 pm EET in the Bulgarian capital’s National Palace [...]
Sunday, February 19, marks the 130th anniversary since the laying of the foundation stone of the world-famous St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in downtown Sofia. Alexander Nevsky is one of the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedrals in the world and the largest Eastern Orthodox cathedral on the Balkan Peninsula. It is located in the very heart of [...]
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