Valentin Tanev

Dear Heirs

"Dear Heirs" tells the story of one big, disconnected family forced to love together under one roof in Beli Vit village in order to get their inheritance of 1.2 million euros. Children and grandchildren should live under the roof of the family patriarch for one year without leaving the village for more than 12 hours. Those events will change the characters, their desires and principles. Traditions and moderns trends meets business ideas, and the values of patriarchal family meets with the modern family.

Dog's Home

A retired opera female singer terrorizes people and animals because of her love for a 20-year old boy (in the days of the Total Solar Eclipse 1999).

A Love to Hide

A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.

Coziness

Serious family relationships in a comedic aspect - fate, money, neighbors, the future, how we live, at what pace, what we give, what we want, how we get away.

War of Letters

10th century, the most powerful state in Europe rests on a terrible secret that may threaten the very foundations of Christianity. Captured between political intrigues and warrior battles the young prince Bayan is searching for an ancient alphabet that could save his doomed love or his kingdom. A medieval mystery drama about the birth of the Cyrillic alphabet.

In the Heart of the Machine

Heat, iron, dust and the smell of oil. A typical workday of maximum security inmates will prove to be fateful for all of them. They find something extraordinary inside one of the machines, and an unexpected wave of compassion makes the prisoners take hostages and block the entrance to the workshop and risk their lives, because sometimes the desire to be human is stronger than the survival instinct.

East/West

June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.

Monkeys in Winter

Dona, Lukrecie and Tana - three women of different origins and destinies, whose stories unfold at different times. The tale of the Romany woman Dona begins in the 1960s. The only assets this beautiful and vital woman has are her three children fathered by different men. In order to secure a livelihood for them, she moves in with an older, but disabled man, who turns out to be a pervert. Ten years later, the ambitious Lukrecie is trying to avoid employment in the village. After she becomes pregnant by a prospective suitor, she meets an attractive young man who offers her a life abroad, something she had always dreamed of. Lukrecie resolves her situation in the most appalling way. Tana, the wife of a prosperous businessman, vainly longs to have a child. On the advice of a friend, she goes off to a spa, whose miraculous reputation is attributable to a skillful masseur. Her husband, however, is unmoved by the joyful news.

Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore

Rosy Pelican Reserve

The film is a children comedy about six fat boys who experience great adventures while fighting hunger. They realize what friendship means and finally turn into little men.