International Film Festival to Begin in Bulgaria's Varna

Culture | August 27, 2010, Friday // 18:36|  views

At a press conference on August 16,the organizers of the 18th edition of the international film festival "Loce is Folly" have announced that there have invited more than 600 official guests. Photo by BGNES

The 18th edition of the International Film Festival “Love is Folly” will begin Friday in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Varna.

The Deputy Culture Minister, Mitko Todorov, will open this year's edition of the forum, which is financed by the Executive Agency “National Film Center” of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture.

According to the organizers, this year the festival will include more movies than previous years. They have also stated that “Love is Folly” has been conducted this year thanks to the 123 sponsors.

The Italian director Beppe Cino will be chair of the international jury. Other members of the jury will be the Hungarian producer Endre Florian, the Polish screenwriter Maciej Karpinski, Yuri Mitjushin, chair of the itnernational festival “DetectiveFest” in Moscow, and the Bulgarian director and producer Stanimir Trifonov.

More than 600 official guests have been invited and six of them, chosen by lot, have received passes for the Bulgarian film festival “Golden Rose”.

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Tags: film festival, Varna, Love is Folly, Ministry of Culture

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