За младостта, любовта и мечтите в новото българско кино
Of Youth, Love and Dreams in the New Bulgarian Film

Summary/Abstract: Until recently, Bulgarian filmmakers used to depict the young generation as powerless victims of the transitional period, who would lose their moral values and adequate social behaviour as a result of the traumatic social changes. Over the recent years, attempts have been made to push the envelope of this pattern: individuality is being brought to the fore at the expense of the social conflict and the root of the problem of indifference and the destroyed values of young people has been got to psychologically deeper. In movies like “Eastern Plays” (2009, dir. Kamen Kalev), “Sneakers” (2011, dir. Ivan Vladimirov, Valeri Yordanov), “Ave” (2011, dir. Konstantin Bojanov) Bulgarian film addresses at long last the reasons dooming young people both in the Balkans and across a globalising world to loneliness and despair. In a world dominated by media, where TV and Internet would to a large extent eject real life, young people prove to be glutted materially and morally deprived: family has lost its supportive role, love more often than not is confused with fear of boredom and loneliness, ambitions are simply not there for success necessitates great efforts, which they would not make readily just because they have no mainstay. Notwithstanding their delving deeply into the interpretation of these problems, the films under consideration fail to evade the common marginalization of young people on screen.

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