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Poli Angelova

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In a small Bulgarian town, Nade is an honest, hard-working elementary school teacher struggling to keep her life together. Her unemployed, alcoholic husband has secretly spent their mortgage payements on booze, and now the bank is threatening to auction off the house where they live with their young daughter. The agency where she translates legal documents to English for extra cash is going under and unable to pay her what she's due, and a thief in her class has stolen the last few dollars out of her purse. With few options left, she solicits help from a local loan shark who is happy to give her what she needs at a steep price. With the reposession looming, Nade will resort to measures her former self, untouched by the realities of economic desperation and moral compromise, would have found depraved, as she makes one last extreme effort to secure the money she needs.
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The Lesson (2014)
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Pavlina Angelova graduated from New Bulgarian University, master degree in "Film and TV directing". She graduated with the documentary film "Specialists" The film is a production of Bulgarian National Television. In February 2007, she participated in the 5th Berlinale Talent Campus within the film festival in Berlin, and in August 2007 - in the 1st Sarajevo Talent Campus. Since 2004 to 2008 she was the coordinator of the event Sofia Meetings - the only one in Bulgaria international meeting of filmmakers, producers and directors within the International Sofia Film Fest. She was a co-producer of the movie "Lesson", directed by Peter Valchanov and Kristina Grozeva. The film won Grand Prix New Directors section - IFF San Sebastian; Special Jury Prize - IFF Tokyo; Award "Ingmar Bergman" for international debut - IFF Gothenburg; Grand Prix for the first and second film - Warsaw International Film Festival; Special Jury Prize for originality and innovation - Thessaloniki International Film Festival; Award for Best Screenplay - Thessaloniki International Film Festival; Grand Prize - International Film Festival Luxembourg City; Grand Prize - International Film Festival Cuenca, Ecuador; Award for Best Actress - International Film Festival "Premiers Plans" Angers; Award for Best Actress - International Film Festival, Vilnius; Award for Best Actress - International Film Festival Transylvania; Award for Best Director - International Film Festival Transylvania; Prize "Golden Owl" for Best Actress - International Film Festival Cinemabk, Brazil; Prize "Golden Owl" for Best Film - International Film Festival Sinemabk, Brazil; Jury FIPRESCI - International Festival Molodist, Kiev; Award for Best Feature Film - International Film Festival Monterey, Uruguay; Prize for best first or second film - International Film Festival Duhok, Iraq; Grand Prize - Sofia International Film Festival; The award of FIPRESI- Sofia International Film Festival; Audience Award - Sofia International Film Festival; Award for Best Bulgarian Feature Film - Sofia International Film Festival; Award for Best Film - Film Festival "Golden Linden" St. Zagora; Award for Best Actress - Film Festival "Golden Linden" St. Zagora; Special Prize - "Golden Rose" Film Festival; Critic's Guild Award - "Golden Rose" Film Festival; Award of accredited journalists - "Golden Rose" Film Festival; Bulgarian Film Academy Award for Best Feature Film; Bulgarian Film Academy - Award for Best Director of a Feature Film; Bulgarian Film Academy - Award for best production design; Bulgarian Film Academy Award - Best Actress; Bulgarian Film Academy - Award for directorial debut; Sofia City Award for outstanding contributions to culture; Grand Prix of the Festival of Arts "Apolonia".
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      • 7 wins & 10 nominations total

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    Before I Sleep (2017)
    Before I Sleep
    7.2
    Short
    • Producer(as Pavlina Angelova)
    • 2017
    Men of Deeds (2022)
    Men of Deeds
    7.3
    • Producer
    • 2022
    Theo's Formula (2019)
    Theo's Formula
    8.8
    • Producer
    • 2019
    Ivan Barnev in Blessed Are the Meek (2020)
    Blessed Are the Meek
    5.5
    • Producer
    • 2020

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    • Razlom (2025)
      Razlom
      • producer
      • 2025
    • O da Bir Sey mi (2025)
      O da Bir Sey mi
      6.4
      • co-producer
      • 2025
    • Soliman Cruz and Niko Becker in To the North (2022)
      To the North
      6.2
      • producer
      • 2022
    • Men of Deeds (2022)
      Men of Deeds
      7.3
      • co-producer
      • 2022
    • Sreshtu techenieto na vremeto (2020)
      Sreshtu techenieto na vremeto
      • producer
      • 2020
    • Ivan Barnev in Blessed Are the Meek (2020)
      Blessed Are the Meek
      5.5
      • producer
      • 2020
    • Better Nature (2019)
      Better Nature
      8.0
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Home Far Away (2019)
      Home Far Away
      8.1
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Nadezhda Koleva in Just Like Me (2019)
      Just Like Me
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Sibila Petrova in Duet (2019)
      Duet
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Endangered Species (2019)
      Endangered Species
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Chimera (2019)
      Chimera
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • Nina (2019)
      Nina
      6.6
      Short
      • producer
      • 2019
    • The Father (2019)
      The Father
      6.4
      • executive producer
      • 2019
    • Whole (2019)
      Whole
      7.4
      Short
      • line producer
      • 2019

    Actress



    • Margita Gosheva in Glory (2016)
      Glory
      7.6
      • 2016
    • The Lesson (2014)
      The Lesson
      7.2
      • The Secretary (as Poly Angelova)
      • 2014
    • Poster by Vanina Geleva
      Leydi Zi
      7.0
      • Vazpitatelka
      • Educator (as Pavlina Angelova)
      • 2005
    • Poster by Elena Stoyanova
      Hubava si, mila moya
      5.6
      • (as Pavlina Angelova)
      • 2004

    Production Designer



    • Un film di Michelangelo Antonioni
      Short
      • Production Designer (as Pavlina Angelova)
      • 2004

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