Documentaries about child and teenage crime, child prostitution, and the reponsibility of society in Bulgaria. These films are produced with the support of the Ministry of Domestic Affairs, the Ministry of Education, and the Penal Department. 

These documentries have been viewed by the Primer Minister of Bulgaria, the Ministry Council and by legal experts and child psychologists who were present at the premieres of the films. They have been used in many reports on crime. This was the first time in the transition period in Bulgaria when organized child crime became a public concern.
My Lovely Bad Child

Director and Producer: Lidia Zlateva
Cinematographer: Christo Bakalov (Baky)
60'
The Road to The Temple

Director and Producer: Lidia Zlateva
Cinematographer: Yordan Georgiev
BETACam sp; 50'
This documentary is about the children foresaken from society, and about their way from the streets to the prison. The film appraoches the issue of organized child and teenage crime, its sources, and the groups who support it or benefit from it.

Drifting vagrant and homeless on the streets, begging, selling their bodies, stealing, and sometimes srtiking back to kill -- these are the young characters that the camera follows on the streets, at the train station, in the reformatory school or the prison. They are facing us -- parents, teachers, supervisors and psychologists, attorneys-at law, ministers...
A documentary about child and teenage crime. How and why is teenage crime exploited as a social issue.The film renders a psychological portrait of young people held in the prison in Boitchinovtsi. It follows the lives of a several young persons -- from petty thieves and habituatual criminals to murderers -- their confessions and the forgiveness of their parents. Is society ready to accept these people and how are they going to start their lives all over...
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