Balgarianovinite.com Twelve films will compete in the International Competition for First and Second Feature Films at the 30th Sofia International Film Festival, the organizers said. The Sofia International Film Festival will welcome audiences on March 12-31.
This competition is being held for the 24th year, and its jury will award the Sofia – City of Film Grand Prix, provided by Sofia Municipality. The jury is chaired by Gyorgy Palfi (Hungary), with Yana Titova (Bulgaria), Matteo Zoppis (Italy), Zhanna Ozirna (Ukraine) and Pavel G. Vesnakov (Bulgaria) as its members.
Among the entries is Myrsini Aristidou’s Hold onto Me, a Cyprus-Denmark-Greece co-production, which won the Audience Award at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Bulgarian actress Maria Petrova stars in the film. Both Aristidou and Petrova will present the film to festival audiences.
Alexander Kosev’s Women Out of Order and Ralitsa Petrova’s Lust, co-produced with a Danish and a Swedish company, are the Bulgarian entries.
Other films in the programme include: The Condor Daughter (Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay), Life in a Beat (Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Montenegro, France), Cinema Jazireh (Turkiye, Iran, Bulgaria, Romania), Nina Rosa (Canada, Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium), Trial of Hein (Germany), A Safe Place (Romania), Broken Voices (Czechia, Slovakia), Dump of Untitled Pieces (Turkiye) and Nomad Shadow (USA, Spain, France). Twelve Films in First- and Second-Feature Competition at 30th Sofia Film Fest 2026 THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2026-03-08 14:58:20 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law