Biografia
Georgi Djulgerov graduated from VGIK Film School in Moscow in 1970. He has directed feature films showcased at festivals such as Berlin, Locarno, Oberhausen, Avellino, Palermo, Rotterdam, Montreal, San Francisco, Batumi (Georgia), Mons, Mannheim-Heidelberg, and Sarajevo. His films have been screened in special programs in Warsaw, Paris, New York (Museum of Modern Art), London, Frankfurt am Main, Moscow, Kiev, Vienna, Los Angeles, La Rochelle, Riga, Bratislava, Fujisawa, and Genoa. His film "The Camp" was featured in the 1990 Cannes Directors' Fortnight. Djulgerov has also directed theater productions and several TV projects. He is a full-time professor of Film and TV Directing at the Academy for Dramatic and Film Art in Sofia, Bulgaria, and a voting member of the European Film Academy.
At the New Montreal Film Festival, his latest film "Lady Zee" won the Audience Award - Toyota Canada Award for Best Film. "Lady Zee" also received the Best Film Award at the Sarajevo Film Festival, along with the C.I.C.A.E. Award from the International Confederation of European Art Cinemas. Additionally, it earned the Grand Prix "Golden Aphrodite" and the FIPRESCI Award at the XIII International Film Festival "Love is Folly" in Varna, Bulgaria. On January 13th, "Lady Zee" was honored with the Best Feature Film of the Year Award by the Executive Agency "National Film Center" at its inaugural ceremony.
At the 17th Trieste Film Festival (January 19-26, 2006), "Lady Zee" received the Central European Initiative Award for best representing contemporary life in Central and Eastern Europe, recognized for portraying Bulgarian life both realistically and poetically. At the 10th Sofia International Film Festival, the film won the FIPRESCI Award and the Kodak Award for Best Bulgarian Film. It later garnered the Best Actor Award for Ivan Barnev from the Bulgarian Film Makers Union and the Tolerance Award from the International Jury of Critics at the XIII European Film Festival Palić. "Lady Zee" was also selected among 49 films competing for the 2006 European Film Awards presented by the European Film Academy.
The jury of the 13th International Sofia Film Festival At The Coast honored Georgi Djulgerov with the honorary "Silver Seagull" award for his lifetime contribution to Bulgarian and world cinema, as well as for his recent film "Buffer Zone," which was well received by audiences and critics alike. In 2015, the Bulgarian Film Academy, representing the entire film community, presented Djulgerov with the Award for Lifelong Achievement.
