This film will introduce children to problems of waste and its recycling. Aluman is a dwarf-can. He dreams of being recycled and his dream becomes fulfilled after a number of adventures.
Produced under the Environmental and Health Educational Programme - UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
USA - 15 min.

ANIMA MUNDI

A film free of words. Fine combination of picture and music, rich and diverse range of suggestions concerning wild nature and human civilization.
Director: Godfrey Reggio
USA - 28 min.
TVE International

BIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA

In several episodes this film reveals some hardly known and/or striking biological objects: the Mantins, the Tetraodon fish, the Dragonfly's metamorphosis.
Director: Vasko Vasilev
Vreme Film Studios - 14 min.

BRUNO BOZZETO SPOTS

These are short cartoons on environment created by the famous Italian animator. It appropriates any audience.
Director: Bruno Bozzeto
Italy - 16 spots of 1 min. each
TVE International

JUNGLE PHARMACY

This film acquaints people with the great significance of tropical forests for the pharmaceutical industry, as well as with the ancient civilizations’ traditions in their utilization.
Director: Jamy Hersal
Great Britain / Brazil - 52 min.
TVE International

WASTED LAND

A philosophical film about the relation between man and environment, about the land destroyed by humans. The words are after the poetry of Peter Manolov, who also appears in this film.
Director: Milan Ognyanov
Vreme Film Studios – 18 min..

THE BULGARIAN COLCHIS

A film of the series dedicated to the flora and fauna that have been registered in the Red Data Book of Bulgaria. The film features the specific conditions that have given birth to the unique plant diversity in some regions of the Strandja Mountain.
Director: Yasen Tasev
Vreme Film Studios - 8 min.

THE ETERNAL VIA PONTICA

A film about the biodiversity along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.
Made upon request of the PHARE Program of EU
at the Ministry of Environment and Water with the assistance of
a Vreme Film Studios / Videoart co-production - 40 min.

CAUTION! MANTIS

Although it seems peculiar both in appearance and behaviour, the Mantis is a typical example for expediency and adaptation to predatory life.
Director: Konstantin Kostov
Vreme Film Studios - 8 min.

SEAWEED

A film of the Sea Stories series. A young diver discovers the kingdom of seaweed and reveals it to us through his curiosity and excitement.
Director: Hristo Iliev
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

WATER WARS

A film in three parts of 50 min. each. It reflects in a fascinating way the importance of water resources in three regions of the Earth – the Colorado Valley, the Middle East and the Aral Sea.
Director: Michael Waldman
BBC, Great Britain – 3 x 50 min.

WILD WILLY

A film story about a whale species that has been poorly studied.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

IN THE KINGDOM OF CURLY-HEADED PELICANS (IM REICH DER KRAUSPELIKANE)

This film tells the story of a rare European pelican species which has found its Eden in the lagoons and marshlands along the Albanian seaside. Because of its underdevelopment, Albania has in general preserved an intact environment specific for this region of Europe.
Director: Thomas Schultze-Westrum
ZDF - Germany - 29 min.

THE INSIDE STORY ON AIR POLLUTION

While continuing the children's film Keeping the lid on air pollution, this movie, however, features more interesting way of presentation. It is about the air pollution inside the buildings, and particularly in our homes.
Produced under the Environmental and Health Educational Programme - UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
USA - 18 min.

MITTENDRIN (Inside the Things)

These are very impressive television series made for educational purposes. They completely cover most of the water, air and soil topics.
Directors: Hans Borgel and Johan Kehrhart
ZDF, Germany - 13 series of 25 min. each

NESTS ON THE ROCKS

This film is a result of two-month long observations, carried out in difficult-to-access places throughout Bulgaria. It features some rare species (Peregrine falcon, White-legged buzzard, Egyptian vulture, Black stork, Raven etc.) and picturesque habitats of interest both to specialists and general public.
Director: Yasen Tasev
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

THE YEAR OF THE STORK

By an ancient rule, the storks' spring returning to Europe indicates that spring has already come. This film traces up the migration route of a stork family from North Germany.
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain - 29 min.

THE BIG REEF IS DYING

This film reveals the submarine world surrounding the Big Coral Reef nearby the western coasts of Australia.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 22 min.

BIG GUY - THE FLORIDA PANTHER

An impressive film about this large cat species and the difficulties concerning its survival in the conditions of the exclusively modern American civilization.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

THE HOSPITABLE PONTUS

This film features animal and plant species threatened with extinction along the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.
Director: Yasen Tasev
Vreme Film Studios - 13 min.

MUSHROOMS

Both edible mushrooms and toadstools are part of the boundless natural biodiversity.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 16 min.

KEEPING THE LID ON AIR POLLUTION

This film introduces children to the air pollution issue. Little Teddy has been given homework - a task to describe the problem. In a sudden way he gets acquainted with all matters of importance concerning air pollution, and how it could be confined within certain limits.
Produced under the Environmental and Health Educational Programme - UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
USA - 18 min.

LOOK UP

An educational documentary presenting the ozone layer depletion problem and what efforts should be taken to preserve the life on Earth. This film features moments of the Let's Save the Ozone National Campaign ’99 of the Borrowed Nature Association in Bulgaria.
Director: Asen Vladimirov
Profilm - 19 min.
The World Bank / The Ministry of Environment and Water / Borrowed Nature Association.

REPLANTING THE TREE OF LIFE

A film about the great significance of trees for the life on Earth and for the human civilization.
Director: David Leech
USA - 20 min.

AD 2048 - THE OZONE ALARM

A film about problems concerning the ozone layer depletion. In the form of television news from AD 2048, we are given the opportunity to become witnesses of the hard reality which will meet our planet with disaster if we don't act in an appropriate manner.
Director: Thorbjorn Morvik
Norway - 50 min.
TVE International

AD 2048 – THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT

A film about dangers coming from the so called "greenthouse effect" which threatens the existence of human civilization. In an unexpected way the authors make us imagine how human civilization would appear in AD 2048 in case we will not have taken urgent precautions.
Director: Thorbjorn Morvik
Norway - 46 min.
TVE International

DELICACY

A documentary shot at the Sofia snail market in 1989. This film is about the gathering of snails for export in return to dollars. It is also reviewing the problem of extinction of this and other species considered as a "delicacy".
Director: Assen Vladimirov
Vreme Film Studios - 19 min.

THE DOLPHINS

A film of the series "Stories about the sea". Elder fishermen talk about their encounters with the Black Sea dolphins. The tame dolphins’ attraction in Varna’s dolphinarium is of extreme curiosity for children.
Director: Hristo Iliev
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

THE WILD NATURE OF BULGARIA

A film about the biodiversity shot in various Bulgarian reserves.
Director: Yasen Vasilev
Vreme Film Studios - 17 min.

JOBS OR HEALTH: A TOWN’S DILEMMA

This film aims at introducing children and students to the topic of the relationships between social problems and environment conservation. Despite that this problem is rather complicated, it is illustrated in a way being understandable enough for children.
Produced under the Environmental and Health Educational Programme - UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
USA - 22 min.

THE STATE OF INSECTS

In four episodes this film reveals the interesting lifestyle of the ant-hill: hierarchy, labour activity, military operations, spare time.
Director: Pancho Tzankov
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

BIRD HOME

This film features one of the most interesting periods of birds' life – the time when they have a family of their own.
Director: Luben Tzolov
Vreme Film Studios - 13 min.

THE TIGER PET

This is a film story about a cat pet. Nowadays many aspects of feline life have been elucidated. However, it is interesting to trace back the way cats become attached to humans and house.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 15 min.

THE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS

This film introduces us to what we consider inner meaning in birds' songs, and tries "to translate" some of the messages floating in the space around us.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain - 26 min.

ECOLOGICAL DESIGN - INVENTING THE FUTURE

This film traces back the interesting development of ecological design in our century, the new solutions concerning urban and industrial environment, while casting a glance towards the future.
Directed by B. Danitz and K. Zelov
USA – 58 min.
TVE International

ECOTOONS

30 amusing cartoons on various ecological topics.
TVE International – 50 min.

UNDERWATER EXPEDITION

The submarine world of the Indian Ocean, discussed by town-children hungry for adventures. Their story about the "underwater" expedition is curious, full of humor and charm.
Director: Pancho Tzankov
Vreme Film Studios - 15 min.

ESPERANZA - THE MOUNTAIN TAPIR

A film about this slightly-known animal inhabiting the Andes in South America.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

NATURAL CAPITAL

A film about projects on biodiversity implemented worldwide by WWF.
Director: Tony Steinger
WWF - 15 min.

LIVING DESERT

A film about the flora and fauna of the Karakum desert in Central Asia.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 17 min.

LIVING RIVERS

This film reveals the efforts made to restore the authentic nature diversity in the genuine Dutch delta in one of the most densely populated and industrialized countries – The Netherlands.
WWF - 18 min.

LIFE AND COLORS

Colors in Nature are not a matter of beauty, but of survival instead ...
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 14 min.

LIFE IN A COW'S RUMEN

Authors reveal both unity and diversity in life as well as the world of microorganisms in an original art way.
Director: Georgi Stoev
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

LIFE UNDER ARMOR

A film about the most interesting events of the biological life cycle of the river crayfish and its great role as a river basins' purifier.
Director: Luben Tzolov
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

BULLS, BIKINIS AND BONE-BREAKERS

A film about the Ossifrage on Island of Crete and the effects on biodiversity, caused by man's activity.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

THE LAST SHOW ON EARTH

A film of four parts devoted to the problems and achievements concerning preservation of biological diversity on the Earth. The soundtrack of the film has a powerful influence, as the songs are performed by world-famous pop singers who support the nature conservation movement.
Director: Philip Keyford
Great Britain - 106 min.
TVE International

SAM’S SAFETY STAR

This film trains children in safe behaviour. Sam has a camera on his head, which is constantly shooting and. Later he watches the recording and sees himself where he has gone wrong and how he should have acted.
Produced under the Environmental and Health Educational Programme - UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
USA - 15 min.

GREEN ANIMATION

25 cartoons quite enjoyable for watching and dedicated to various environmental topics.
TVE International – 54 min.

THE GREEN HEART OF THE MOUNTAIN

This film reveals the internal beauty and natural diversity of the Strandja Nature Park.
Made upon request of the PHARE Program of EU
at the Ministry of Environment and Water with the assistance of
Vreme Film Studios and Videoart - 40 min.

TYTO’S ZOO

Tyto is an owl. He belongs to the Barred owl species and has been presented by the film authors as a guide for London Zoo sightseeing.
Director: Malcolm Taylor
Great Britain – 30 min.
TVE International

LOVE SONG

This film tracks down the mating rituals of some animals.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 11 min.

THE DOLPHIN'S WAY (a series of six movies) :

Blue Spaces, Gold Rush, Underwater Illusions, The Great Adventure, Eternal Harmony, Close-up View

This film consists of six series, 20 minutes each. It is a blend of colors and movements capturing the attention of the audience. Behind these titles one reveals the beautiful lay of the Great Barrier Reef near the Australian coast, its nice inhabitants and people's attitude towards them.
Director: Stefan Todorov
Sinis MM / Delfinium / Vreme Film Studios

I NEED THE EARTH AND THE EARTH NEEDS ME

It is a perfect film for children, revealing the need to protect our planet against pollution. Many American children who share their opinions on different matters are starring here. The original movie soundtrack is a nice song with a poetry well fitting the film topic.
General Motors Photographic / The US Agency for Environment Conservation.
USA – 20 min.

SPANISH NATURE (La Naturaleza en Espana)

A wordless film about the Spanish nature. It's soundtrack makes it even more entertaining.
Spain - 22 min.

AND THE DISH RAN AWAY WITH THE SPOON

This is an interesting film about one of the global mankind problems - the satellite television which unifies human cultures and manipulates millions of people. In this case the word is rather about the cultural ecology.
Directors: Kristofer Leird and Antony Hall
Trinidad and Tobago – 48 min.
TVE International

YELLOWSTONE - THE UNFINISHED SONG

An interesting film story about the conflagration in the Yellowstone National Park, the selfless work of its personnel and the strict rules of survival in the wild nature.
Director: Jerry Word
USA - 17 min.

WHAT TO DO WITH ALL OUR GARBAGE

Jenny, Greg and Kate have been given for homework the topic on waste. This story elucidates in a visual and simple way the recycling, the dumpsites and the dangerous waste which should not be mixed up with the usual household garbage.
Produced under the Environmental and Health Educational Programme - UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
USA - 22 min.

THE LADYBIRD

Biological cycle of the Ladybird, its natural place in the environment and its role in the extermination of harmful insects.
Director: Vasko Vasiliev
Vreme Film Studios – 7 min.

UNICEF SHORTS

These are seven videos dedicated to topics such as poor countries’ debts, utilization of solar energy, water purification, soil overexploiting, starving and necessity of urgent practical measures instead of conferences, words and intentions. Videos are very well made and have an effect of posters.
UNICEF – 7 x 40 sec.

GREENPEACE VIDEOS

Three short films - free of words but full of strong suggestions that alarm the threat of all those damages caused by the mankind to its own planet.
Greenpeace – 3 x 5 min.

EDEN SHORTS

These are short educational videos for teenagers on the essential problems threatening the development of modern human civilization.
Great Britain – 19 x 3 min.
TVE International

THE SILK

A town-child accidentally happens to be in a village... so it becomes a witness of something very curious and somehow forgotten – the silkworms’ breeding.
Director: Atanas Kiryakov
Vreme Film Studios - 13 min.

PELICAN ON THE EDGE

A film about Brown pelicans along the coast of Costa Rica, that have been recently rescued from extinction after DDT-poisoning.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

ALONG THE CORAL REEF

This film takes us for a walk along the bottom of the Caribbean Sea and gets us familiar with the marvelous world of coral reefs in the near proximity of the Cuban Pinos Island.
Director: Todor Paskov
Vreme Film Studios - 15 min.

THE CROWNED CRANE - QUEEN OF THE MARSH

A film about the features of this interesting bird species.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

THE CROWNED EAGLE - KING OF THE FOREST

A film about this proud bird species and the difficulties around its survival.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

THE KINGDOM

This short film story presents a grandfather and a grandchild talking about the world we live in. The background consists of sequences both of beautiful nature worldwide and of damages caused by the human activity.
WWF - 13 min.

THE ICE CAVE

A film impression about a famous cave situated nearby Shiroka Laka village, in the Smolyan district of the beautiful West Rhodopi mountains.
Director: Alexander Rupchin
Vreme Film Studios - 4 min.

GREEN MEDICINES

A film concerning the traditional knowledge of herbal medicines in different regions of the world.
The Netherlands – 53 min.
TVE International

LICK AND LACHA

This film tracks back a multi-year experiment with wolves, that has been provoked by their considerable decline in the mountains of Croatia.
Director: Drazhen Pishkorich
Croatia – 24 min.

THE DENSE FORESTS

This film takes us to the whimsical and mysterious kingdom of dense forests. Such primary natural nooks have been conserved just on the territory of Bulgaria and nowhere else in Europe.
Director: Yasen Tasev
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

THE SWALLOW

Swallow is accompanying the man for many centuries on. It builds its nest, breeds up its population in proximity of human dwellings and ... eats up thousands of flies and mosquitoes. And when we hear its joyful warbling in March, we understand that spring has come.
Director: Edi Vassileva
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

THE DONKEY

This film is created as a specific donkey “monologue”. The donkey retells its life story and reveals its diligence and attitude towards world.
Director: Viktor Petkov
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

THE MAGIC OF HEAVEN’S COAST

The film plots traces out the whole Northern part of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast from Cape Emine to Shabla. The land and sea nature is revealed.
Produced under the PHARE program for the Ministry of Environment and Water
with the collaboration of Vreme Film Studios and Videoart - 24 min.

JELLYFISH

A film of the series "Sea Stories". It gets children acquainted with this sea inhabitant they frequently encounter in summer.
Director Hristo Iliev
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

METHYLBROMIDE

A short film about the harmful impact caused to the ozone layer by the methylbromide used as a fertilizer in the agriculture.
UNEP – 50 sec.

MUSSELS

A film of the "Sea Stories" series. By means of drawings and underwater flashes the authors get children familiar with the complicated relations in the marine world.
Director: Hristo Iliev
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

CAN POLAR BEARS TREAD WATER?

A film about the climate changes and problems which will impede feeding the Earth’s population.
Director: Lowrence Moore
Great Britain / USA – 52 min.
TVE International

CAN TROPICAL RAINFORESTS BE SAVED?

A film about the problems regarding the uncontrolled clear-cut of forests all over the Earth’s tropical zone.
Director: Robert Richter
USA - 120 min. TVE International

THE GIRL WHO SAW THE WORLD FROM ABOVE

This film combines adventure and fantasy as an educational approach and reveals the harms on environment in the way they are caught by the eight year old Adriana who had the lucky chance to fly by a zeppelin all over the world.
Director: Maria-Christina Rossales
Guatemala – 60 min. TVE International

GREEN UP YOUR TOWN

Some practical suggestions of how a good co-existence between man and nature could be achieved in the conditions of a concrete town.
Denmark – 20 min.

VITOSHA NATURE PARK

A film about the hardly known natural resources of the Vitosha Nature Park.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Ministry of Environment and Water / USAID /Dina Film - 28 min.

OUR WINGED NEIGHBOURS

A film about the sparrows - our winged neighbours we are used to live with but hardly know although.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 17 min.

OUR DAILY AIR

A film about the air which we, the human beings, do breathe in our big overpopulated cities. The film actor Paulo Betty narrates the video in a spontaneous and artistic manner while introducing us to the problem in its various aspects.
Director: Tete Morales
Brazil – 35 min.
TVE International

OUR OZONE LAYER

An educational film about the ozone layer related problems, the causes of its destruction and the scientific background connected with the research of this global ecological problem.
USA – 34 min.

UNWANTED SOUND

An educational film about the harms caused by the noise to human health and particularly to the young people.
Director: Assen Vladimirov
UNDP / Profilm – 27 min.

WE, THE CRAWLERS

This is a nature protection film and its art suggestions aim at changing the traditional negative attitude towards snakes. The film features almost all snake species inhabiting our country.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 15 min.

NEW FOX IN TOWN

An interesting story about artificially bred foxes and further difficulties around their adaptation to life in the wild.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

NO MORE TIGERS IN THE YARD

A film about the damages that have been caused to the forests of India by the civilization during the last hundred years, and how this situation influences people living in these regions nowadays.
Director: Mira Tana
India – 27 min.
TVE International

ODE FOR THE MARSH

You might be surprised to find out that each marsh is a micro-ecosystem and has an impact on all of us ...
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 18 min.

EAGLES – THE MAJESTIC HUNTERS

A very profound film about eagles and their global diversity.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain – 60 min.

EAGLES MAJESTIC INTERNATIONAL

An extraordinarily attractive film about existing eagle species diversity. Eagles cross the human boundaries. About 60 species of them live throughout the whole world.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain - 29 min.

POISONING THE OCEANS

At first glimpse, this short film aims at getting us familiar with world oceans’ pollution. However, it concerns the global environmental problems of our planet instead.
Greenpeace – 11 min.

THE SNAIL

In addition to what we learn about these animals, we witness how the authors ridicule certain features of the human character between the lines.
Director: Pancho Tzankov
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

PARROTS AND TIMBER, AND POWER

A film about the mutual relationships between the biodiversity of Costa-Rican forests and the timber production in respect to power and money it brings quite far away from Costa Rica.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

THE PARROTS

A film of the children series "Our Friends, the Animals". A boy who loves these exotic birds narrates spontaneously an interesting story about them.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Fiml Studios - 10 min.

ALEXANDRIA’S CLEAN-UP PARADE

Alexandria (Alex) is a small girl who becomes friend with the Big Green Frog. With the help of her new friend she succeeds to understand how important is nature conservation. She organizes the Big Clean-up Parade together with her friends.
Produced under the programme of ecological and health education – UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
USA – 16 min.

A PARK BEHIND ROCK DRAPERIES

A film about the plant and animal diveristy of the Vrachanski Balkan Nature Park.
Produced under the PHARE program of EU for the Ministry of Environment and Water, with the collaboration of Vreme Film Studios and Videoart - 27 min.

FLYING FOR GOLD

Can you imagine that some birds fly faster than racing cars, while others swim three times faster than humans and attack their prey with a speed of 180 km per hour.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain - 29 min.

THE HARD-WINGED TRIBE

This film features the phenomenal characteristics of the Coleoptera (hard-winged, or beetle) insects.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 15 min.

DOWN THE DRAIN

Little Chris goes to the sink in the kitchen and makes her mind to pour out a bottle down the drain. Right in this moment it utters and it is been followed by a whole lesson on the question about wastewater and where it comes from.
Produced under the programme of ecological and health education – UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
USA – 21 min.

STRONGER THAN WAVES

A glance at the surf zone and the life existing in these seemingly dead fields.
Director: Konstantin Kostov
Vreme Film Studios - 16 min.

THE LAST 13%

There are signs of life in 13% of Black Sea waters omly. All the rest is the realm of deadly poisonous hydrogenated sulfur (H2S) gas that slowly gets closer and closer to the surface …
Directors: Ivan Tzonev and Stefan Todorov
Vreme Film Studios - 12 min.

STUDY VISIT

Film notes about a study visit of seven Bulgarian environmental NGO representatives in The Netherlands, performed in October 1997.
Director and cameraman: Ivan Kozhuharov
Borrowed Nature Association – 33 min.
Milieukontakt Oost-Europa

CHILDREN’S RIGHTS

The television series “Reports about the Earth” includes 12 short documentary stories concerning the status of children’s rights in Africa, Mongolia, India, Costa Rica, USA and some other regions.
Great Britain – 75 min.
TVE International

PULP FUTURE

A film about the unpredictable threats which probably challenge the stability of our civilization and might lead to social disintegration and chaos.
Director: Mark Dode
Great Britain – 45 min.
TVE International

CAMOUFLAGE KID

The boy with the mask is somehow a super-teenager who makes his mind to struggle against the pollution of nature. Featuring an entertaining parody manner, the film shows a set of investigations made by the little detective.
Produced under the programme of ecological and health education – UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
USA – 17 min.

THE PROSECUTOR

A film about maybe the most serious problem of Colombia – the drug mafia. The issue is recreated through the professional everyday life of the court prosecutor Alfonso Valdiviezo.
Director: Adelaida Kaysedo
Colombia / Great Britain – 25 min.
TVE International

THE MONTREAL PROTOCOL

This short documentary has been dedicated to the 10th anniversary of signing the International Agreement on the Ozone Layer Protection, better known as the Montreal Protocol.
UNEP – 10 min.
TVE International

MOCKINGBIRDS

An interesting film story about birds able to imitate voices and sounds.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 17 min.

I AM THE HERMIT CRAB

This film is about the Hermit crab and the natural phenomenon of symbiosis which could be translated in children's language as friendship and mutual assistance.
Director: Georgi Stoev
Vreme Film Studios - 8 min.

ENDANGERED PLANTS

A film about plant species threatened with extinction in different regions of Bulgaria.
Director: St. Topaldzhikov
Spektar Studios - 25 min.

PLANTS NEAR THE GLACIERS

This film acquaints us with the alpine zone of Rila and Pirin mountains located at an altitude of over 2500 m. Species threatened with extinction do thrive there. Many of them are listed in the International Red Data Book of IUCN.
Director: Yassen Tassev
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

POWERDOME

This is a film about the first nature reserve of Latvia – the North Virza region.
Director Nils Sax
Latvia – 31 min.

SACRED WATER

This film is about the Sacred Water Project performed in the year 2000 by the Borrowed Nature Association in the towns of Lovech, Svishtov and Smolyan, with financing provided by the Novib Foundation of Holland.
Director: Ivan Kozhuharov
The Videocenter - Borrowed Nature Association – 41 min.
Novib Foundation, The Netherlands

RILA MOUNTAIN

A film about Rila National Park and its Visitor Center in the village of Panichishte.
Director: Milena Lilova
Sofia Kabel TV - 20 min.

TESTIMONY

This is a video recording of a conversation between the famous pop-singer Annie Lennox (Eurythmics) and a Tibetan monk named Palden Dzhiatsu who has been imprisoned for 34 years. The conversation is about the human rights, their status in the democratic world and in countries where democracy has not come yet.
Great Britain – 30 min.
TVE International

THE SEVEN GATES OF RILA

A detailed film about the Rila Mountain. Rila is divided into seven ridges successively presented throughout the film.
Produced under the PHARE program of EU for the Ministry of Environment and Water, with the collaboration of Vreme Film Studios and Videoart - 40 min.

SEX, SULFUR AND A FISHY BUSINESS

This is a modern film about the acid rains and damages they cause to environment and people’s health according to data derived from surveys carried out in Sweden.
Director: Anders Enval
Sweden – 58 min.

THE SCORPION

The understudied scorpion's life cycle. Unique shots reveal unknown aspects of its biology.
Director: Lyuben Tsolov
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

JUMBO IN THE CLOUDS

An impressive film about the elephants’ migration within Africa during the dry season.
Director: Richard Brock
USA - 30 min.
TVE International

UNDERWATER WITH A LENS

Young diver, a main character in the "Sea Stories" series, dives underwater with a lens in order to study the organisms invisible for an unarmed eye.
Director: Hristo Iliev
Vreme Film Studios - 10 min.

SMOLYAN NATURAL BEAUTIES

A film about the natural beauties of the Rhodopi Mountains in the Smolyan region.
Director: Nikolay Rudarov
Spektar Studios - 18 min.

SOS: RAPANA!

This film reveals the urgent need of protecting the Black Sea mussel from the invasive Rapana sea snail .
Director: Lubomir Obretenov
Vreme Fuilm Studios - 15 min.

SPASS AND NELLY

An entertaining and cautionary film story about relations between children, parents and animals.
Director: Georgi Stoev
Vreme Film Studios - 15 min.

SAVING THE OZONE LAYER

A look at the major factors that influence ozone layer depletion and the history of recognizing this global ecological problem.
Directors: D. O’Connol and Sh. Metcalf
Great Britain – 18 min.
TVE International

DOLPHINS : IN MEMORIAM

A short but very sad TV documentary. An old film archive from 1950 reveals the vandal extermination of dolphins in the Black Sea.
Director: Pavla Rakovska
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

THE SILVER MOUNTAIN

An impressive movie about the natural beauties, the flora and fauna of the Balkan Mountains.
Produced under the PHARE program of EU for the Ministry of Environment and Water, with the collaboration of Vreme Film Studios and Videoart - 28 min.

THE OLD OAK

A film grotesque. The old oak which has adorned Bulgarian nature for many years turns into ... posters calling for nature protection.
Director: Hristo Iliev
Vreme Film Studios - 8 min.

DARTS ON THE WATER

An observation of the life of dragonflies and their specific and curious biology.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 12 min.

CREATION

A silent film about the countless natural beauties of the Earth. This is maybe the essence of creation.
Greenpeace Communications - 15 min.

WHERE EAGLES FLY

This is a film shot attractively as to track back the life of Imperial eagle in Scottish mountains where it has its largest population.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain – 47 min.

DANCE

A poetical impression about the life entity and natural circle that underlies vital processes.
Director: Georgi Stoev
Vreme Film Studios - 8 min.

HEDGEHOG

A film from the “Zoology for children” series. This is a short story a full season of the hedgehog’s life - from waking-up in the spring to falling asleep in the autumn.
Director: Alexander Rupchin
Vreme Film Studios - 8 min.

THESE WONDERFUL TAILS

This film reveals the importance of animal tails in a jocular manner.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios - 9 min.

TOXIC CHEMICALS

The film reveals the activity of International Toxic Chemicals Control Service established by the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), aimed at exercising worldwide control of toxic chemicals’ distribution and usage.
An UNEP / TVE International production – 11 min.

THE FLAMINGO TRIANGLE

Flamingo is the refined aristocrat of the bird world. Or maybe just a comic character? This film traces the localities of its annual migration route.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain – 29 min.

TOURNAMENTS

This film reveals the complicated interspecies relationships and the aggressive behaviour of male animals during their mating period.
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios – 13 min.

BIRD TRAFFIC

Being an impressive story about the traffic of wild birds and parrots threatened with extinction, this film follows one of the numerous illegal traffic routes.
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Great Britain – 24 min.

JAPAN’S LESSONS OF ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT

The film gets us familiar with Japan’s long-term experience. The country which succeeded in realizing the most intensive industrial development ever known in the world paid a high price, since it actually caused considerable damages to its own environment.
Director: Katzunori Arai
Japan – 31 min.
TVE International

SAFETY SENSE

A film for children, stressing the importance of poring through labels of different articles in order to prevent harmful substances to be taken accidentally. There are both music and dances in the film as well as examples in the form of games.
Produced under the programme of ecological and health education – UMDNJ – Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
USA – 12 min.

NATURE SMILES

Butterflies – the marvelous smiles of the nature…
Director: Konstantin Grigoriev
Vreme Film Studios – 10 min.

CAVIAR

A film about the harms caused by the pollution of Volga river both to the Sturgeon fish and the caviar manufacture.
Director: Nick Davidson
Great Britain – 52 min.
TVE International

HIPPO !

The film reveals the life and biological features of this peculiar animal.
Director: Richard Brock
USA – 30 min.
TVE International

BLOSSOM TRAPS

This film gets us familiar with the unique features the evolution has developed in some plant species for attraction of insects. It proves once again that in the wild nature happens just by chance but is a result of a long-term sophistication and adaptation instead.
Director: Luben Tzolov
Vreme Film Studios – 10 min.

THE BULGARIAN RED DATA BOOK

The film acquaints the public with the Bulgarian Red Data Book, published by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. This book contains substantial knowledge about the alarming status of several animal and plant species threatened with extinction.
Director: Luben Tzolov
Vreme Film Studios – 10 min.

BLACK CHRONICLE

A Bulgarian TV documentary about the consequences of Chernobyl nuclear accident and the inexcusable lack of action shown by the Bulgarian communist government at that time.
Director: Eldora Traykova
Vreme Film Studios
Distributed with the assistance of Borrowed Nature Association – 26 min.

THE BLACK TRIANGLE

This film introduces us to one of Europe’s most polluted regions. It is situated between the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany.
Director: Nick Davidson
Great Britain – 55 min.
TVE International

BLACK SEA – DEATH OR REPRIEVE ?

The ecological calamity threatening the Black Sea, and the measures coastal countries are trying to adopt.
Director: Nick Davidson
Great Britain – 22 min.
TVE International

AMPHIBIOUS MAN

A film about the role of traditional kayak in everyday’s life of Greenland, and the way it has become an impressive and attractive sports nowadays.
Director: Ivars Silis
Greenland / Denmark – 29 min.
TVE International

HAPPY TRIGGER

A film about the harmful effects caused to the biodiversity in Hong Kong’s coastal waters by uncontrolled human activity.
Director: Richard Brock
USA – 30 min.
TVE International

HAPPY FAMILIES

This film is divided into three parts, each lasting 30 min. It traces back an international experiment with the participation of five families from different countries of the world. They enter a six-week competition for winning the “Green Family” award. During the competition it becomes clear how difficult it will be to overcome old habits if we wish to have a sustainable lifestyle.
Directors: Christopher Salt and Barbie McLaurin
BBC / WWF – 90 min.