Monkeys in winter
Director: Milena Andonova, Bulgaria-Germany , 2006, 111min.
In her feature film debut, Milena Andonova tells the separate and tragic stories of three women. The story of the attractive and lively Dona, a Roma woman with three children to different fathers, is set in the 60s. In order to safeguard their future she moves in with a disabled man, with unforeseeable consequences. Ten years later, Lucrecia becomes pregnant and dreams of a life abroad with her new suitor. She mistakenly sees her pregnancy as an obstacle. Tana, the wife of a prosperous businessman, dreams of having a child. Her husband cannot live with the knowledge that it is his infertility that is preventing this, or with the sudden 'miracle' of her pregnancy.
Svetlana`s journey
Director: Michael Cory Davis, Bulgaria-United States, 2004, 74min.
A film on child trafficking
“Svetlana’s Journey” retells the story of a 13-year-old girl who managed to escape from pimps’ captivity. After her mother dies and she has no other relatives, Svetlana goes to an orphanage. She is then adopted by a family whose main purpose is to sell her for 10 000 euro. Soon afterwards she is sold to a pimp family who torment her, manipulate and maltreat her until they make her a shell of a body used by gentlemen – customers. She is deprived of all her dignity, dreams and hopes.
Human Rights Documents on Refugees and Migrants: An Overview
Human Rights Conventions Overview
Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings, 2005
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 1995
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965