The Patience of the Stone
(Tarpenieto na kamaka)

Screening on Film
Directed by Kostadin Bonev.
Bulgaria, 1998, 35mm, color, 50 min.
Bulgarian with English subtitles.

This film won the Best Documentary of the Year in Germany, 1998. It is a documentary about the lives of the inhabitants of a small village in the Rhodope Mountains that separate Bulgaria and Greece. Seemingly a simple view, this film explores the effects (or lack of) of modernism and proves the age old adage that the more that things change the more they stay the same. Overall, a very modern, stylish, and engaging look at an older world.

Part of film series

Read more

Bulgarian and Macedonian Film Series

Current and upcoming film series

Read more

From the Collection: Antonioni / Bertolucci / Olmi

Read more

The Complete Stanley Kubrick

Read more

Alain Kassanda, 2026 McMillan-Stewart Fellow

Read more

Community in Cinema

Read more

Growing Up Female, Second-Wave

Read more

Crime Scenes as History. Five Korean Films

Read more

The Lady and the Typewriter

Read more

Sixties Shinoda

Read more

From the Collection – Bob Hoskins