After the first round of projects evaluation for 2022 in which feature film proposals by Kamen Kalev (Eastern Plays [+lee también:
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entrevista: Dragomir Sholev
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The three projects supported in the category for films with a total budget of over BGN 600,000 (€306,749) are Yavor Gardev’s Yan Bibiyan, based on the eponymous and locally popular fantasy novel for children by Elin Pelin; mainstream oriented Ivaylo Penchev’s Birthday and Stefan Komandarev’s Made in EU, following his trilogy consisting of Directions [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] and the soon to be released Hello about which Cineuropa wrote, still in the production stage. A maximum total budget of BGN 2,865,000 (€1,463,976) will be distributed between the three works while an overall amount of BGN 1,425,000 (€728,094) in the category for films budgeted below BGN 600,000 will be spread out between Without Wings to be directed by box-office breaker Niki Iliev, Before I Forget by Stanislav Donchev, who gained fame with independent comedies, and Women Out of Use by Alexander Kosev, who will be filming soon after his feature debut Petya of My Petya.

BGN 1,860,000 (€949,910) is the total amount granted to debuts and it will be divided between Peter Krumov’s The Monster on the Opposite Bank backed by Klas Film (Godless [+lee también:
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entrevista: Ralitza Petrova
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entrevista: Radu Jude
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40 other project across all categories were rejected by the committee.