Anri Koulev

Prof. ANRI KOULEV is a film director, producer, artist, cartoonist and Head of the Animation programme at New Bulgarian University. He has produced and directed more than 30 features, documentaries and animated films that have been awarded for the most prestigious national prizes among which Golden Rose, Golden  Rhytone, Golden Wheat-Ear, as well as many international awards in Chicago, Oberhausen, Krakow, Moscow, Ottawa, etc. Anri Koulev is an author of the stage design for a number of theatre performances in Bochum, Gratz, Stuttgart, Berlin. He has been a jury member at numerous international festivals. The solo exhibitions of his graphic art, animation sketches, paintings and caricatures have taken place in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in Oberhausen, Hiroshima, Bratislava, Krakow, Berlin, Annecy, Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, etc.

Feature films

2019ONCE UPON A WAR
2012ZACHES
2007THE SPARROWS IN OCTOBER
2002MRS. DINOSAUR
1994MUSKETEER WORD OF HONOUR
1991THE FATHER OF THE EGG
1981THE DEATH OF THE RABBIT

Animation

2021TO PUT IT MILDLY (in production)
2017ALL MY EYE
2015LILLY AND THE MAGIC PEARL
2007THE RAG
2002THE STRAW MAN
1994THE GORGON
1987THE MERRY MAN
1985A TALE ABOUT THE ROAD
1983WHO SEES FARTHEST
1980BACHELOR ROOMS
1980SUNDAY
1979CAVALCADE
1977STAGE PLAY
1976HYPOTHESIS

Documentary

2014BOOK OF SILENCE
2012THE MYSTERY VEDA SLOVENA
2007SOULFUL
2000DUDUNA
2000THE NEWSPAPER
1994THE TENDER MONSTER
1994CAT IN THE NET
1994THE NAMES OF THE ETERNITY
1983I DREAM OF MUSIC
1984LABYRINTHS
1984PLAYERS
1981HEAVY BREAD

TV

2006THE SPARROWS IN OCTOBER
1991THE FATHER OF THE EGG
1995New Year’s Show, Bulgarian National TV
Since 1992Creates a series of TV spots, advertizing clips:
 OBSERVER; ‘Shock’; Mineral Water ‘Hisar’; ‘Format TV’

Opera

2017LILLY AND THE MAGIC PEARL under the story of Valery Petrov

Theatre scenic design

2008‘Bure Barut’ by Dejan Dukovski, Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany
2003‘Death of a Salesman’ by Arthur Miller, Deutsches Theater, Berlin, Germany
2000‘Bure Barut’ by Dejan Dukovski, Graz, Austria
1999‘Don Quixote’  by Cervantes, Bochum, Germany
1998‘Ashes to Ashes’ by Harold Pinter, Bochum, Germany
1997‘Happy Days’ by Samuel Beckett, Bochum, Germany

Illustrations

2019Orient SEXpress, an album of erotic aquarelle drawings
Since 2017Weekly drawings, ‘24 Hours’ newspaper
2012-2015Weekly drawings and comics, ‘Press’ newspaper
Since 1996Weekly drawings, ‘24 Hours’ newspaper
1991/96Weekly drawings, ‘Culture’ newspaper

One man exhibitions

2020Cinema House, Sofia
2019Graffit Gallery, Varna
2019COOP Gallery, Sofia
2010Hiroshima, Japan
2009National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2003Plovdiv and Sofia, Bulgaria
1999Bratislava, Slovakia
1999Krakow, Poland
1997Berlin, Germany
1995Annecy, France
1994Sofia, Bulgaria
1991MOMA, New York, USA
1987Annecy, France
1980Oberhausen, Germany