Kinomania: The Beginning

Directed by Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov

With Ludmil Staikov, Dimitar Dereliev, Veselin Savov, Dzhulia Savova and Hermina Azarian

The beginning of the World Film Panorama in Sofia was in November 1987, and since 1993 the event has taken the name "Kinomania". For four decades now, the capital's oldest film festival has been bringing audiences together with the best of world cinema from the past year. Through the stories of the real participants in the events and intriguing archival footage, the short documentary film by Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov tells the story of the festival's creation – from the World Film Panorama and the birth of "Kinomania" to the present day.