ANONS BY MAHMUT FAZIL COSKUN

Filmotto (Turkey) in co-production with Chouchkov Brothers.

Funded by Turkish Ministry of Culture and Bulgarian National Film Center.

Scriptwriter: Ercan Kesal & Mahmut Fazil Coskun

Director: Mahmut Fazil Coskun

Cast:

Producer: Halil Kardas

Co-producers: Borislav Chouchkov, Georgi Abrashev

Director of Photography: Krum Rodriguez

Sound Mixer: Borislav Trayanov

Make-up artist: Valentin Valov

Art director:

Costume designer:

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Mahmut has been working as a documentary and commercial filmmaker since 2000. Wrong Rosary was his directorial debut, winning a Tiger Award at Rotterdam IFF, 2009 and Best Director award at Adana FF, 2009. Coskun’s second fiction feature film, Yozgat Blues had its world premiere at the San Sebastian FF, 2013 and has won awards at several other festivals including Warsaw FF Fipresci Award and Best Balkan Film at Sofia IFF, 2014.

BROTHERS BY ÖMÜR ATAY

Atay Film (Turkey) in co-production with Fiction 2.0 UG (Germany) and Chouchkov Brothers (Bulgaria)

Funded by Ministry of Culture, Turkey, Turkish-German Co-Development Fund, Filmforderung Hamburg – Schleiwig – Holstein, Eurimages

Drama: | 2017 | DCP | 100 min

SYNOPSIS:

Yusuf is released from a youth detention center on probation. His return to the family reveals a bloody secret. While Yusuf and his brother Ramazan become threats for each other, Yusuf’s decision settles the fate of the family.

Written and directed by Ömür Atay.

Cast: Yigit Ege Yasar, Caner Sahin, Gözde Mutluer

Producer: Funda Ödemis

Co-producers: Stefan Gieren, Borislav Chouchkov

Director of Photography: Emre Erkmen

Production Sound mixer: Borislav Trayanov

18% GRAY BY VIKTOR CHOUCHKOV

Chouchkov Brothers in co-production with Ostlicht Filmproduktion (Germany).

Funded by Bulgarian National Film Center, MDM, Bulgarian National Television, Creative Europe Media

Supported by ScripTeast Programme

Drama: | 2018 | DCP | 100 min

Bulgaria, Germany

SYNOPSIS:

After his wife left him, a failed photographer stumbles upon a bag of marijuana, and determined to sell it, sets off to a wild trip from London to Berlin that may lead him to the truth about his lost love and ultimately to himself.

Director: Viktor Chouchkov

Scriptwriters: Ivan Vladimirov, Zachary Karabashliev

Based on the Novel: 18% Grey by Zachary Karabashliev

Cast: Ruscen Vidinliev

Producers: Borislav Chouchkov, Katya Trichkova

Co-Producers: Marcel Lenz, Guido Schwab

Director of Photography: Nenad Boroevich

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR:

Viktor Chouchkov Jr. got a master’s degree in film directing from the National Academy of Theater and Film Arts school in Sofia. Before that he graduated from the Secondary School of Fine Arts in Sofia. He has directed short films, numerous music videos, documentaries, Tv commercials.

In 2003 together with his brother Borislav, he established the production company CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS with the main goal to produce feature films.

His first feature TILT was awarded for Best debut at the Raindance IFF, James Lyon award for Best editing at Woodstock IFF, Best director at the California Independent FF and another international and national awards. TILT has been in competition and in the official selection of Festivals such as Seattle IFF, Santa Barbara IFF, Palm Springs IFF, Jerusalim IFF, Glasgow FF, Goteborg IFF, Montreal IFF, Transilvania IFF etc. TILT was the Bulgarian Oscar entry.