SPAICH

2011 - "I dream of mummers"

• Audience Award at Ethnographic Film Festival in London – 2011
• Preservation of Spiritual Heritage award at the International Festival of Ethnographic Films in Belgrade -2011
• Award for Best Bulgarian Film at the International Festival in Bansko - 2011

2010 - "The Mayor"

• Award of Sofia for outstanding achievement in cinema - 2010
• Award for best director at the Golden Rhyton festival - 2010
• Award for Best Documentary of the Bulgarian Film Academy - 2010

2007 - "Divorce Albanian Style"

• Nominated by the European Film Academy for Best Documentary of 2007
• Grand Prix "Golden Chest" for Best Documentary at the International Festival of TV films "Golden Chest" - 2007
• Special Jury Prize at the National Festival for non-feature films "Golden Rhyton" - 2007
• Award of the National Film Center for Best Documentary - 2007
• Award of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers for Best Director of Documentary - 2007
• Award "SRG SSR Idée Suisse" of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation – 2008
• Award for Protection of Human Rights Protection of Human Rights – 2008
• „Special Award” of PRIX EUROPE in Berlin – 2008
• „Best Documentary Film” and „Audience Award” at the SEE Film Festival in Los Angeles – 2009
• „Golden Vityaz” Award of the Film Forum in Moscow – 2010
• „Special award” of the festival Chronograph, Moldova - 2010
• Special film screening at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, 2008

2003 - "Whose is this song?"

• Special Jury Prize at the International Festival for TV films "Golden Chest"- 2003
• Special Jury Prize at the National Festival for non-feature films "Golden Rhyton"- 2003
• „Silver Seashell award” от at the International Film Festival in Mumbai – 2004
• The prize "Prix Bartok" от at the 23rd Festival of Ethnographic Films, Paris – 2004
• Gibson Award for impact of music at the International Film Festival in Nashville, USA – 2004
• Award of Sofia – 2004
• Second prize of the festival "Crossroads of Europe" in Lublin, Poland – 2005
• Student Jury Award and Innovation Award at the Ethnographic Film Festival in Sardinia – 2006

Selected filmography

Films made before 1990

"Old Gold" – 1984г.

Awarded the Special Prize at the International Film Festival for short films. Selected for FESTRIO in Fortaleza, Brazil.

"The Neighbor" – Feature Film – 1986 г.

One of the five Bulgarian films with the highest number of viewers in 1988. Shown in Hungary, Germany and Russia. Broadcast by the Austrian TV and ARTE channel. Selected to participate in the Film Festival for films on female subjects in Paris and at the Film Festival in Madrid. One of the 50 best-loved Bulgarian movies according to the viewers of the Bulgarian National Television.

"Mothers" - 1982 г.

The film was banned for public screenings because of the way in which it dared criticize and expose the hypocrisy and ambiguous morality of Socialist society.

Silver Rhyton award at the National Film Festival for non-feature films. Selected and shown in its censored version at the festivals in Oberhausen, Leipzig and Bilbao.

"In the name of sport" – 1983 г.

This film was also banned in the period from 1983 do1989. It is a kind of sequel to a series of films showing the real face of the Socialist social system of values. The film reveals the secretly guarded inhumane methods of making champions at any cost in order to prove the sporting superiority of "our system". Even before the film was completed, all working materials were confiscated. The first public screening of the film took place after democratic changes in Bulgaria in 1989. In 1990, the film received the Film Critics Award at the National Film Festival. The film took part at the International Short Film Festival in Berlin. It was shown in the U.S. and Hungary. It was screened in a dedicated program presenting a portrait of film director Adela Peeva as one of her banned films at the International Film Festival in Zelb, Germany.