The peaceful life of a grumpy raven is abruptly disturbed by the free-spirited song of a newly arrived nightingale. The raven will have to find a way to live alongside this uninvited muse.

Festival Selections & Awards

Competition supporting student films, organized by the American Foundation for Bulgaria

Competition supporting student films, organized by the Nonconformist Alternative

21st SFAF – Varna – Special Award of the Union of Bulgarian Artists

Stop Trik 2025 – Wide View Panorama

11th Thessaloniki Animation Festival – Student Competition program 

Festival Villa del Cine – Honorable mention for Best International Passionate Film (Student Competition) 

TEODOR RALEV is a graduate of the Animation Cinema program at NBU. He worked as lead animator on the short film 8848 directed by Stefan Voyvodov and was also part of the team behind Voyvodov’s Oceania, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 17th World Festival of Animated Film in Varna and was selected for the CEE Animation Talents program in 2022. He participated in a two-week production of a stop-motion commercial series for Travel Oregon as an assistant animator under the guidance of Assoc. Prof. Zlatin Radev. Later, he collaborated again with Radev as an assistant animator on a music video by Porter Robinson. Garvanera is his graduation film, selected for the World Festival of Animated Film, Varna, 2025, where it received the Special Award from the Union of Bulgarian Artists.