Svetla Yancheva

Svetla Yancheva

Born: January 31, 1964
in Burgas, Bulgaria

Movies for Svetla Yancheva...

Europa
Title: Europa
Character: Woman
Released: September 2, 2021
Type: Movie
Kamal, a young Iraqi man entering Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, is captured by Bulgarian border police but escapes, finding himself to search for a way out in a seemingly interminable forest, an underworld where rules and laws don’t exist, where he is wounded and chased by Bulgarian migrant hunters. For three days and three nights Kamal must fight for his life through a journey of survival until a final life-or-death confrontation.
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Sister
Title: Sister
Released: October 7, 2020
Type: Movie
A small town in present-day Bulgaria. A mother and her two daughters are struggling to survive. The dreamy and distracted younger daughter often invents stories in order to make life more interesting. Unwittingly, she eventually gets caught in the trap of her own lies and destroys her older sister's well-ordered materialistic world. Meanwhile, the two sisters find out the truth about their mother
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Fear
Title: Fear
Released: September 2, 2020
Type: Movie
Svetla, a widow who lost her job recently is living next to the Bulgarian-Turkish border. There are many cases of refugees in her village due to it's location. One day she meets a refugee from Africa and this changes her life.
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8' 19
Title: 8' 19"
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
8 minutes and 19 seconds – that’s all the time we have until the news about the death of the sun reaches us. That's what it takes for the light to travel from there to here. And then the darkness comes… But the theme of this Apocalypse is not necessarily going to be expressed through a global cataclysm, horsemen of the apocalypse, angels of death, fire and destruction. It will rather be shown as something very personal, intimate and almost silent.
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Lift for Patients
Title: Lift for Patients
Released: March 10, 2017
Type: Movie
In hopes that they can help each other, a psychiatrist arranges for a suicidal young man and a terminally ill woman to meet.
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T2 Trainspotting
Title: T2 Trainspotting
Character: Veronika's Mother
Released: January 27, 2017
Type: Movie
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
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Thirst
Title: Thirst
Character: The Boy's mother
Released: September 22, 2015
Type: Movie
A couple and their teenage son eke out a living on a hilltop, doing the laundry for local hotels, despite the intermittent water supply. Their simple life is overturned by the arrival of a father-and-daughter team of diviner and well-digger, who promise to bring an end to this precarious existence by finding a source on their arid hill. But ultimately, these newcomers quench a thirst far greater than than the simple need for water.
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The Sinking of Sozopol
Title: The Sinking of Sozopol
Character: Gina
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
This is a film about love, ten bottles of vodka and a town that must sink. Because when hope is gone, Miracle is the last resort.
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Pride
Title: Pride
Character: Mother
Released: August 10, 2013
Type: Movie
Manol — a retired general and a loving grandfather — is a patriarch of firm morals and fixed beliefs, which he has upheld in his household. But on this day, he learns that the boy he raised is gay. The life choices of his loved ones challenge his values in a battle he has lost by default.
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Avé
Title: Avé
Character: Viktor's Mother
Released: March 9, 2012
Type: Movie
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this adventure, Kamen begins to fall in love with the fleeting Avé.
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The Saint Family
Title: The Saint Family
Released: March 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Nina is 12. Her mother, Nazca, who was laid off from the factory, finds work at a remote mountain dairy. Nina cannot continue her studies, but this is the only way to avoid repeating her mother's fate.
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Investigation
Title: Investigation
Character: Alexandra
Released: September 2, 2006
Type: Movie
An investigator tries to solve a murder, her constant interviews with the main suspect cause the investigation to take many twists and turns as what is said is not always what is meant.
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Lost and Found
Title: Lost and Found
Character: (segment "Ritual, The")
Released: February 10, 2005
Type: Movie
Six young filmmakers from Central and East Europe developed shorts about the theme of "generation".
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Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch
Title: Warming Up Yesterday's Lunch
Character: Starata Katerina
Released: October 19, 2002
Type: Movie
High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to compromise with their consciences and their art, (as normally happens here in the Balkans), or whether to preserve Katerina's message.
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Fate as a Rat
Title: Fate as a Rat
Released: November 2, 2001
Type: Movie
It is a story about a group of friends who live in a small seaport town. Their lifestyle is rigorous, their joys are simple and their sex life is raw. Their concepts of man's dignity, friendship and duty are wrong and primitive. The film helps us to understand and forgive them.
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Az grafinyata
Title: Az grafinyata
Character: Grafinyata
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
A Bulgarian "Drugstore Cowboy." A teenage girl's rebellion through drugs becomes a metaphor for the struggle between individuality and totalitarianism. Amidst the political upheaval of 1968, Sybilla (the "Countess") is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists efforts to remold her personality. Based on a true story.
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Running Dogs
Title: Running Dogs
Character: Zhana (as Svetla Yancheva)
Released: March 6, 1989
Type: Movie
This is a film about the fate of a group of students and their wondering to find their true place in life. Of course each of them tries to find his own way.