Seven films will be screened during the Balkan Cinema Week which opened at Lumiere Cinema in Sofia
on Monday night. The event has been organized by Bulgarian actor and director Andrei Slabakov.

The programme of the festival includes the Serbian film "The Tour", directed by Goran Markovic. It is about a group of actors from Belgrade who embark on a "tour" around the Serbian Krajina during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Turkish film "Tales from Kars" is made up of five short films by various directors. They were all shot in the Turkish province of Kars, which borders Armenia.

The Greek drama "Black Field", directed by Vardis Marinakis, tells the story of two sisters and a man who stands between them.

The Albanian picture "East, West, East", directed by Gjergj Xhuvani, is about an amateur cycling team from Albania which heads to France to take part in a tournament only to discover on the way that revolution has broken out back home.

Another film to be shown during the festival is FYRMacedonia's "Upside Down", directed by Igor Ivanov Izi. It is about a romantic malcontent who cannot find rest, who continually hurts people and gets hurt himself.

The Cyprus romantic drama "The Last Homecoming", directed by Korinna Avraamidou, is set against the backdrop of the unstable political landscape in the island country in 1974.

Romania's "Kino Caravan", directed by Titus Muntean, tells about two guys who arrive in a small village to screen a film.