Best Bulgarian animation movies

The movie tells a story about life's absurdity and the game of destiny which is too cruel at times. This is a movie about the consequences of a taken decision, about love, suffering and death.

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.

When did you last talk with your father? Will you ever ask him about those things that hurt you? In FATHER the reality of life is turned upside down to create an impossible dialogue - the dialogue between a child and a father that never happens.

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

Adventurer Felipe ventures on a quest with Commander Smollet to stop a villain in search of a gem that will restore life on Earth.

Balgar is a brand known among the 10-18 age group, almost 100%. Balgar is a peculiar subculture phenomenon that in less than five years managed to become a favorite of tens and even hundreds of thousands of teenagers. And now come down from the computer to conquer the big screen. The first Bulgarian full-length animated film from more than 40 years. The first Bulgarian independent animated film. The first Bulgarian 3D Stereoscopic Movie.

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.

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.

Two children share an altogether different kind of New Year's Eve, taking an icy journey where they must cross waters and cultures to make a fresh start.

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.

The sequel to Balgar: The Movie. The characters go to a scary mansion where a lot of things happen to them.

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

In the village, snow-covered, you can hear the terrible howl of a wolf. One by one, the peasants ride on a sledge to kill him. However, each time the sleigh returns without a person. The women from the village are scared. They take it upon themselves to find their men and find them in a pub to eat and drink. The men are having fun, but don't forget to send someone outside to howl like a wolf. Women attack men.

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.

Zlatin Radev’s pixilated Canfilm (1990) from Bulgaria is a brilliant, often hilarious political allegory about tin cans that live in cartons resembling skyscrapers and are periodically relabeled by the powers that be.

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.

A bored cartoonist draws a pretty woman. Then, a discarded character, a strongman, comes to life and approaches the woman, and the cartoonist finds himself snatched into the paper world., where he battles the strongman, in an effort to impress the woman.

Neither scissors nor saw will help the gardener to get rid of a daisy that has had the audacity to grow in the wrong place, but she herself cannot resist the gaze of a little girl.

Bulgarian director Martin Georgiev's film traces the evolution of a particle in a black-and-white geometrical world where the choices it makes will shape its form and its form will shape its choices.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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 houses of the villagers are suddenly invaded by countless snakes. What to do with the plague? A good idea: to lead them away with other creatures that eat snakes. But the solution to a problem sometimes leads to even greater problems...

A short story about 4 brothers, a zmei, and an apple.

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.

A madhouse. Everyone can do whatever they want. One crawls, and the other walks on the ceiling. The third one hangs from the lampshade. The fourth one pops out of the nightstand like a cuckoo clock . . . Orderlies catch one of the patients. Doctors consider it normal. He began to march in the impersonal formation of normal people.

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.

A new world is being formed. An imperfect, disorganized, chaotic world dominated by cruelty and intrigue. Separate parts of various animals and plants constantly fight with each other. The eternal cycle of life. And yet an Artist is needed to create the harmony of nature. Suddenly... the chaos turns into a complete picture.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The musician plays the laterna. He gives Candy Rosster to the boy. The world around the boy is filled with flowers and magic. The boy circles around the Sun. He lets him lick his Candy Rooster. But in the end, the Candy Rooster runs out, only the match remains.

Scissors dances like a ballet dancer on sheets of paper. She carves the sun, the flower, the fish. The boy needs new toys. Scissors offers colored cubes and patterned balls. And then she cuts out the girl. A naughty boy wants all the toys for himself. The girl is offended and hides. The boy understands that being alone is boring. Then the scissors cut out many more boys and girls. The fun games begin.

In a concert, one of the musicians suddenly rushed to the sky. There he waits at St. Peter's Gate to be received. Inside, pathetic music is played. A musician plays jazz. The angels begin to tremble in rhythm

A child plays the violin. From her portrait, his grandmother stares sternly. The child gets tired, starts playing with the kitty, and breaks the portrait. The grandmother begins to harass her naughty grandson... The grandmother returns to the portrait and the child plays the violin again...

A composer writes music at the piano. The notes come alive. One of them turns into a cowboy. He is courting a beautiful lady. As a result, the horns grow on the portrait of her husband. On the pentolinium sheet, the deceived spouse organizes the persecution. They pass through a forest of black signs. They descend into the abyss by the stairs from the "sharp" signs. In the final, a duel takes place. But the bullet does not hit the opponent, but the lady's heart…

The animation consists of several smaller stories.

The film is based on the conflict of destructive and creative forces in humanity.

Two singers quarrel over a not-so-agitated scene that the film they are in gets stuck and later breaks. To fix it, they need to get in harmony again.

The hero is afraid of someone whose footsteps are swaying outside. The hero builds a huge tower around himself to protect himself. The footsteps roll outside again, but he laughs at them. When, however, he wants to get out, it turns out that this is not possible.

The people in the village are being ridiculous. The woman pulls water out of the well, but the handle hits her several times. While the barber is sharpening his razor, the client's beard reaches his waist. The farmer stepped on the hoe and it hit him. A blacksmith can't strike iron while it's hot. The dog does not chase the wolf, but bites its owner. A mouse eats a cat. In the finale, it turns out that the only thing the villagers can do normally is to play a folk dance. In their hands, the dancers hold sickles and hammers.

How mosaics are made.

A tall man and a short man argue about whether the object in front of them is a square or a circle. During the struggle, they push the object. It turns out to be a cylinder.

Everything is sunny, everything is colorful, but the most colorful is the flag of Veselyaka, with which he happily goes against the current, storms, and crowds. However, fate prepares trials for him, and each of them tears a piece of cloth from the waving flag, until in the end only the handle of the flag remains. Carrying this stick, the Jolly One joins the crowd. There are thousands like him, ferocious people with sticks.

A shepherd herds sheep and chases a wolf. The teacher leads his students and chases the naughty one. The priest leads the novices and chases after the indecisive one . The officer leads the soldiers and punishes the deserter. Four groups coming from different directions are mixed in one herd. The officer commands, and everyone marches, even the wolf.

A mischievous baby embarks on death-defying adventures in the world of adults.

When a dragon comes to an quiet rural village and steals 1 apple from a tree the village people get into quite a bustle.

A thick fog envelops the village. Under its cover, there are thefts, suicides, and infidelities. When the fog rises, people panic. They have forgotten to live in the light. The priests begin to create a new fog.

People are enclosed in transparent cubes. One of them manages to get out. He meets a lonely girl. They fly into space. It turns out that the two are locked in the cube again. The hero breaks out again. He meets many men and women, but returns to the girl he loves. This time, in their shared cube, they are separated by a partition.

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.

A flock of storks was flying south, but one bird lagged behind and fell to the meadow without strength. A little girl found the stork and called the adults for help. There were rallies and actions to save the bird. Only a little girl thought to give water and fish to the tired stork, after which it flew away.

A short Bulgarian cartoon for the youngest children, which teaches that they should always tell the truth so that good kind people will eventually grow out of them.

An animated short film.

A building collapses and the authorities have to find the causer.

The film consists of 12 miniatures, each based on one of the signs of the zodiac.