Biography

Iglika Ivanova Triffonova is Bulgarian Cinema and Theater director. She was born on February 17, 1957 in Sofia, Bulgaria. She is a wife of the actor Hristo Garbov . In 1982, she graduated from Film and TV directing at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Art in the class of Georgi Djulgerov and Mladen Kiselov. She began her career as a director of documentaries. From this period are the films: "Year of our Lord 1990" (1990), awarded with the first prize at the festival "With Future" in Berlin; "Possible Distances" (1992); the film won the prize of the festival of documentary cinema in Moldova; "Stories of Murder" (1993); the film won Golden Rose Award at National Film Festival; "Portrait of an Actress" (1994); "On the Road" (1995). Moreover Triffonova worked as an assistant to Georgi Djulgerov and Rangel Valchanov. In 2001 she debuted in feature film as a director and screenwriter of the film "Letter to America" (Nominated for 73-the Annual Awards of the American Film Academy ). In 2003 she directed in the Drama Theater play "Fans" written by Elin Rahnev specifically for Hristo Garbov and Valentin Tanev. In 2006 the movie "Investigation" received the Special Jury Award at the National Film Festival "Golden Rose" in Varna, the Critics Award, the Prize for Best Actor (for Krasimir Dokov), Award for Cinematography (for Rally Raltchev). Bulgarian director Iglika Triffonova won the prize Best Scenario in Central and Eastern Europe of the Cannes Film Festival 2011. She received the award "Krzysztof Kieslowski" at a ceremony for "False Witness". The newest film of Iglika Triffonova "The Prosecutor, Defender, the Father and his Son" opened the 20-th edition of "Sofia Film Fest". In an actual case of the International Criminal Tribunal for the war in the former Yugoslavia, she tells the story of a Serbian child convicted of involvement in war crimes in Bosnia, who has to testify at The Hague against senior Serb military. Cast included French actress Romane Bohringer ("Wild Nights", "Total Eclipse", "Apartment", "Vic and Flo saw bear"), and the Bergman's last favorite actor Samuel Fröler.
- IMDb mini biography by: Georgi Djulgerov <georgidjul1943@gmail.com>

For Bulgarian films Cannes Film Festival is difficult place, there is a question of a complex European cultural policy; they seems not yet ready to excel Bulgarian film.

I am very happy that there are still audiences who need real films. Today every normal spectator can write on Facebook what he thought of a movie - it's the new type of criticism, according to which a film becomes good, bad, significant or less significant after meeting with the audience.

Sometimes the people in Cannes are afraid of some political nuances; today Europe is quite confused and very frightened. In this peaceful and settled a few years ago Europe becomes more complicated to make decisions ...

Bulgarian culture is a culture of lonely persons.