Best Bulgarian animation movies

Firebird (2016)

An artistic impression, driven by the rhythm of the music and the freedom of the dance, creates a magical world, where Love is the leading metaphysical force that overpowers life and death.

Lilly and the Magic Pearl (2015)

One submarine fairy-tale, in which the matter is about surface things. Friendship, parting, hope... Words, which we have slightly forgotten in our days, but they are important – and this is why we would like to recollect them again. Little Lilly listens from the telephone box on the beach a fairy-tale, which leads her to the seabed. There she meets an ugly monster – the fish Hrilly – and together they start looking for the magic pearl, which: “Shines in the sea of the children’s games a pearl, which

Oceania (2021)

A film about the personality as a natural phenomenon and the individual’s instinct. The determination and the fate of a fish out of its school.

Ballad of Ferris the Self-appointed Knight and Smokie the Fire Breathing Dragon (2024)

In the form of a ballad, the wandering bard Peyo tells us about the blacksmith Ferris, who decides to become a knight and thus change his fate. The encounter with Smokie the dragon will help him make deep conclusions about his own life.

Trace (2022)

A young man is trying to hold his life and career together. He writes. When he learns that his wife is pregnant, everything collapses. He enters the dark space of his fears, where he is confronted by memories of his childhood. He needs to face the absence of his own father and embrace the pain. Only then he is ready to accept his newly born child and become a parent.

Zoetrope (2017)

Two robots journey through a labyrinth and encounter curious characters and extraordinary objects as they reflect on their own existence.

Mishou (2020)

Far and wide only snow, ice and a pleasant silence. Until a helicopter drops a load of noisy tourists. A humorous animation about animalistic interaction and the human ignorance of nature.

To Put It Mildly (2022)

Little Svetlio has taken the six plastic Indians in his crib and is struggling to sleep. Suddenly, a big Dog appears in the room and explains to Svetlio his mission - he has come to save him. Firstly, because he is a St. Bernard by nature. Svetlio goes on an adventure because of a simple lie.

The Devil in the Church (1969)

A young modern woman goes to church and all hell breaks loose.

Forest Republic (1953)

The Daisy (1965)

Demoni (2012)

Animated short from Theodore Ushev

Beach (1985)

A peaceful day at the beach for the frogs is thwarted by an invasion of birds.

A Marriage (1984)

A groom-to-be wakes up in the morning of his wedding to strange visions triggered by his impatience... Though the nuptial feast is in full flow, the groom is still daydreaming. On the wedding night, the bride ups and melts away before his eyes exhaling air as a deflated balloon...

The Kettle-Drum (1973)

An artist's hand tries to draw a drummer with various tools and techniques, but he cannot do it for some reason. Finally he pinches his index finger and draws the drummer with his red blood. The drummer starts hitting the drum and the artist tries to erase it with no success. At the end the artist's hand remains white and motionless while the blood-drawn drummer keeps drumming.

The Lighting Rod (1962)

A lightning rod is guarding the house roof, but when the lightnings strike, it appears the rod if afraid of them.

The Chicken (1982)

A bird struggles against a strong headwind, but things are not as they seem.

A Crushed World (1986)

The experiences of a paper character crumpled, rolled up, distorted, thrown away, shaken about, ending up by an encounter which is both sweet and light.

The Beast Is Still Alive (2016)

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past and find answers and explanations for the catastrophic fall of communism.

Arhipelago (1985)

Night. A man drowns in a rough sea. A lighthouse guard risks his life to save a drowned man. He gives him food, gives him his bed. When the lighthouse guard falls asleep, the rescued man steals his boat. As the next lighthouse approaches, he submerges the boat and starts shouting for help.

The Hole (1966)

A man falls in a hole on his walk, he sees another person walking on the same path and makes sure he's not the only one to get injured.

Two Beautiful Eyes (2001)

This is a film about the boundless might of love and its traceable and invisible transformations, its lights and shades. The film deals with the never-ending human craving for beauty, perfection and spiritual elevation. In an art-style somewhere between Juan Miro and Aubrey Beardsley and Inspired by the poetry of P.K. Yavorov.

A Naughty Kitten (1959)

Blue Eyed Moon (2001)

This is a story of a young girl in Ancient Greece. Among nymphs, satyrs and night shadows she is involved in a strange love story.

Wolf Suite (1989)

In a village, wolves threaten the herds of sheep. Shepherds kill animals. The clerk comes and shows them the Red List of Threatened Species. It turns out that wolves are on this list. The villagers begin to take care of the only surviving pair of wolves. They even protect them from sheep that have gone berserk and become bloodthirsty.

Little Anna (1958)

It is only the child who is able to view the world with a pure heart and to laugh at it lovingly and to justify it through laughter. Anna mocks stupidity, injustice, ugliness in human behavior. At times, she also exposes herself to ridicule in her impulse to gain knowledge of the world. She makes us laugh but she also evokes love.

Diurnal Music (1972)

A child plays with flowers, butterflies and birds. Suddenly a huge man dressed in black appears. He begins to teach the child a lesson about plant and animal species. The teacher has many hands, each holding a pointer and killing all the beautiful species he talks about.

The Six Penguins (1970)

Bulgarian stop motion animation that follows the adventures of six penguins.

The Old Tram (1981)

Heirs (1970)

The patriarch of a family dies, leaving his seven sons to fight for the inheritance.