Boriana Statkova has helped over 60 Bulgarian children find their families in Europe. The most famous Bulgarian woman in Switzerland is dedicated to charity, but dreams of a time when Bulgaria will not need help
A Bulgarian musician, a professor of violin at a music academy in Finland, Hristo Donkin talks about his life in the northern country, about the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra he created, and hopes to one day help talented Bulgarian children.
Nikola Sukamdzhiev - young Bulgarian who works in a responsible position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malta, but always returns to Bulgaria and his hometown and hopes to see a Bulgaria of smiling people.
Silvio Danailov is manager of the chess master Vesko Topalov and organizer of international tournaments. He talks about the difficult path to the top of world chess and is confident in the capabilities and potential of the Bulgarian.
Adriana Tabish has lived and worked in Canberra, Australia. There she was taken by Henry Tabish, a World Bank project manager for social security change in Bulgaria, and now her husband.
An aeronautical engineer, Alec Deredjan has lived in UK and works in a Rolls Royce. Although he left Bulgaria at the age of 10, he never lost touch with his childhood friends and relatives. He invites friends from UK to the sea or to ski.
Architect Stefan Dobrev has lived and worked in Paris. He has won competitions and realized many projects in France, Iran, Morocco - but he has always dreamed of working in Bulgaria, to transform Sofia.
The artist Biliana Stremska makes her first exhibition in Bulgaria, dedicated to motherhood. She studied design and architecture in Poland and the USA. She graduated from the University of Berkeley and found her American husband there.
Blagovesta Tzvetkova comes from an old Sofia family and although she has lived outside Bulgaria for many years, she has never ceased to be interested in the fate of her city and her country.
Desislava Stefanova has lived in London. She has been leading the Bulgarian Choir in London, in which people of many nationalities sing Bulgarian folklore songs. She brought some of her friends to the fair in Rozhen.
Doctor Dobri Kiprov lives and works in San Francisco, USA, where he has a good career as an immunologist. And now for the first time he returns to Bulgaria. He meets old friends, his parents, looks for the school and his native house.
The name of Donvena Pandurski is an authority in world ballet, especially after her success in the Mecca of Ballet - the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, where she was the choreographer of the production "The Magic Nut".
He lives and works in Paris with his wife and daughter. This is the pathologist's second immigrant period - again in Paris. Born in Lovech, worked in Plovdiv, specialized in Germany and France.
The famous Bulgarian tennis player Elena Pampulova - Wagner has lived in Switzerland for many years. She has long since left the active sport, but when she returns to Bulgaria she does not fail to stop at the tennis court.
Gabriela Hadjikostova graduated in acting for a musical in Budapest, where she married and lived. She and her husband created the Malko Teatro, where they staged plays by Bulgarian authors, Bulgarian folk music in Bulgarian and Hungarian.
Heni Berler is married in Tel Aviv and lives there with her family. She is the administrative head of the Union of Bulgarian Jews, translates, is a correspondent for BNT, teaches Bulgarian to Israeli businessmen.
Artist and lecturer at the Art Academy of Caracas - Venezuela. Inna Baynova has lived there since 1966, studied in London and Germany and exhibited her graphics and watercolors around the world.
Ismet Sever has lived and worked in Istanbul since 1978. He was born in Omurtag, graduated from Sofia University and although the circumstances in which he left Bulgaria were dramatic, he has only one homeland.
Ivan Drenikov left Bulgaria in 1963. He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, then worked and lived in Caracas, Venezuela. As an expert on old and rare books, manuscripts and maps, he collected a lot related to Bulgaria throughout his life.
Ivan Kristoff lives in Toronto, Canada. He climbed the world's tallest tower at 550 meters, and was called Spider-Man. He worked on the tallest skyscrapers to help with construction and repairs.
Journalist Jacques Solomonov has lived and worked in Lyon, France. He is a teacher-educator at an immigrant college and translator at the Red Cross. He has published a book entitled "The Bulgarian Invasion of Villa Frange".
In Rome, Kiril Marichkov is called "the lawyer of the Bulgarians" because he helped many of the Bulgarian emigrants in Italy. And he wrote a novel about the difficult fate of a Bulgarian boy there.
They call Kristian Koev the "Golden Flute". Studied in Italy, by invitation of the world's best flutist - Gazelleni, Christian got this nickname from him. He invited him on all famous world stages and played with the best philharmonics.
Journalist Lili Goleminova has lived and worked in Montreal, Canada since 2002, where she hosts the TV show "Bulgarian Accents" - the show of Bulgarians in Canada. He also writes in the Bulgarian newspaper in Montreal "Forum".
The eldest of the famous Biserovi sisters - Lyubimka tells how she became an English girl, how her husband Bob sang Bulgarian rhythms equally and what the English learned more about Bulgaria and its birthplace, the village of Pirin.
The artist Lyudmil Dimitrov has been living and working as a graphic designer in Hollywood. In 2003 he started shooting picturesque sidewalk details and since then his dream is to show at an exhibition first in Bulgaria.
How Bulgarian wine occupies one of the first places in UK in the last 20 years, what we lack to be among the best - this is what the man who did a lot for the rise of Bulgarian wine will tell wine around the world Margarit Todorov.
Mihail Stanchev is a professor of history. A Bulgarian from the Bessarabian village of Korten, named after the Stara Zagora village of Korten, from where his ancestors moved, fleeing from the Turks. He was a lecturer at Kharkov University.
Milena Fuchedzhieva has lived with her daughter in Los Angeles. He works as a manager of one of the most expensive jewelry salons in the world. He writes and puts on plays, publishes books and writes for Bulgarian media.
The famous violinist takes us to the places that make up his usual route when returning to Bulgaria - the halls where he teaches, his Sofia apartment, where he meets close people, Bulgaria Hall, where his concerts are usually held.
Since 1991, theater director Mitko Bozakov has lived and worked in Tel Aviv. He puts on the biggest stages in Israel, teaches at several universities. Every summer he, his wife Sonya and his daughter Sara come to Bulgaria.
The artist Nikolai Panayotov has lived and worked in Paris. In this film he tells about his searches and exhibitions outside Bulgaria, but also about his intention to make an interesting art center in Bulgaria.
Folk singer Nikolina Chakardakova talks about her School of Popular Songs and Dances, her favorite village of Leshten, her large family and the European tour dedicated to Bulgaria's accession to the EU - Brussels, Strasbourg, London.
Guitarist and composer Nikolo Kotsev lives on a Finnish island. He gave his first concerts with his band Brazan Abbot in Bulgaria, and now he hopes to stage his rock opera Nostradamus here for the first time.
He calls himself an incorrigible optimist. Hundreds of Bulgarians from all over the world meet virtually on his Awakening website. Pavel Lazarov continues to actively work on projects for the creation of a true civil society in Bulgaria.
The photographer Penko Penkov was born in a small village by Nova Zagora. He graduated from Varna University and worked as a designer, radio host and photographer. He has been living and working in Malta.
Grandson of the architect of many of the great Sofia churches - "St. Paraskeva", "St. Nicholas", Peter Tornyov graduated in architecture in Vienna and worked for large Austrian architectural studios.
Conductor Rosen Milanov - one of the most famous names on the world stage, conductor of the Philadelphia Philharmonic, music director of the New Symphony Orchestra, talks about his choice, his professional pursuits and ideas.
The composer of theatrical music and conductor Rumen Tsonev lives in Paris and Sofia, and works for many European stages in France, Sweden, Belgium, England, Bulgaria.
Snezhina Metcheva is director of the Bulgarian School at the Embassy in London. In her story about UK, the Bulgarians there and Bulgaria as a sacred homeland, she meets us with many of her colleagues and friends.
Cinematographer Stefan Ivanov has lived in Toronto for 13 years, but works in countries around the world - France, USA, Canada, Russia. He talks about his work with many famous directors and actors from world cinema.
Graphic artist Stoimen Stoilov has lived and worked in Vienna. The winner of the Herder Prize has made exhibitions in the most famous galleries in Vienna, in Paris, Madrid .
Opera singer Tatiana Shivarova has lived in Milan. Specializing in La Scala, she sings on many international opera stages. Every year she returns to Bulgaria with her husband - pianist and conductor Marcio Fullin.
Todor Dimitrov lives in Thessaloniki. He graduated in economics and specialized in Prague and Vienna. He now works at the Black Sea Bank, an interesting economic and social experiment, as he describes it.
Tsvetana Bozhurina is from the legendary Bulgarian team - European volleyball champion for 1982. Almost since then she has lived and worked in Italy, first as a competitor and then as a coach.
An ambitious Bulgarian woman left Bulgaria years ago to be an independent human resources management consultant in various European countries, but she is often invited as a lecturer and advisor in Bulgaria.
Vasil Rashkov specializes in rare and expensive wines and owns a shop in one of London's prestigious neighborhoods. He decided to return the good name of Bulgarian wine to the English market.
Velizar Genchev is pianist, conductor and composer and lives in Germany. On his last visit to the Homeland, he talked to old colleagues and friends about the difficult but interesting professional path and about music.
Vera Nikolova left Bulgaria at the age of six. He lives and studies in Italy and France and gives his chamber music concerts in different countries around the world. How Vera rediscovers her homeland?
