The film “Axis of Life” opens in cinemas across Bulgaria on 13.11.2026.
The team’s tour of Special screenings with a meet-the-team session will run from 13 to 22.11.2026.
The author of the book of the same name will be in Bulgaria for the Special screenings.

A film to be experienced on the big screen. It invites you to stop and to hear beyond the noise.
A strikingly different sensory experience, set against the common idea of cinema as entertainment – one that will certainly not leave you indifferent.
Shot entirely in Bulgaria and Cappadocia – striking for its fifth character, NATURE, intriguing for its locations, with a cinematography award from the film festival in Antakya, Turkey.

World premiere – the international film festival in Goa, India.
Worldwide release begins – 13.11.2026, Bulgaria
A Bulgarian co-production, with a Bulgarian crew and an international cast.

Beyond the noise, what guides you?
What do you strive for, and what remains when all the voices outside fall silent?

“Axis of Life” – a mystical story about the path that unexpectedly takes you to places within yourself – familiar and unfamiliar.

This intensely sensory adaptation of the book of the same name, “Axis of Life”, leads us beyond the limits of the familiar. Through mountains, forgotten villages and magical landscapes in Bulgaria and Cappadocia, the film imperceptibly slows the pace and immerses you in contemplation and in looking within. A story about travellers searching for their direction, and about the path that invariably leads us back to ourselves.
With great humanity, “Axis of Life” draws us close to the four men who set out for an ancient sanctuary, where each of them expects to learn his fate.
Gradually, the story turns into a journey through the inner world of each of us.
Who am I? Where do I come from? From whom do I learn? What will I pass on? A mystical tale of the human soul’s path through eternity.

“Axis of Life” is a film beyond the noise that invites, challenges, reminds you: simply BE PRESENT!

World premiere – the international film festival in Goa, India.

The “Axis of Life” team in the lobby during the International Film Festival of India in Goa, 2025

Worldwide release begins – 13.11.2026, Bulgaria

The “Axis of Life” poster reading “In cinemas from 13 November”

A Bulgarian co-production, with a Bulgarian crew and an international cast.

Schedule of the special screenings with a meet-the-team session

13 November (Friday) – Sofia, “Odeon” cinema
14 November (Saturday) – Burgas, Cinema City – Mall Galleria Burgas
15 November (Sunday) – Ruse, Cinema City – Mall Rousse
16 November (Monday) – Botevgrad, “Forum” cinema
16 November (Monday) – Sofia, “Vlaykova” cinema
17 November (Tuesday) – Vratsa, “Metropol” cinema
20 November (Friday) – Blagoevgrad, Cinemax
22 November (Sunday) – Sofia, “Odeon” cinema

About the screening in Burgas

Hall: 4
Running time: the film runs 115 minutes, followed by a 30-minute conversation in the hall with members of the team
Expected at the meeting: Swami Tirtha (the author of the book), producer Victor Francess and actor Vladimir Mihaylov
Language: English, with Bulgarian subtitles
Director: Atanas Hristoskov