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Portokal is a production company that supports authentic storytellers with distinct voices who exhibit a healthy degree of irreverence, and aim to sustain the importance of cinema as art and as a collective experience.

🏆 Good things take time! This is where we were exactly two years ago. And last night our film Eraserhead in a Knitted Sh...
23/08/2025

🏆 Good things take time! This is where we were exactly two years ago. And last night our film Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag, directed by Lili Koss, received the Special Jury Mention at the SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL.🩷 We owe it to you, dear cast and crew! Thank you!

A truly special moment for writer-director Lili Koss  and all of us who helped bring Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Ba...
21/08/2025

A truly special moment for writer-director Lili Koss and all of us who helped bring Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag to life. 🩷 SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL

It's a hot summer for our film Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag by writer-director Lili Koss, as it continues it's f...
24/07/2025

It's a hot summer for our film Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag by writer-director Lili Koss, as it continues it's festival journey around the world. Just back from a Portuguese premiere at Curtas Vila do Conde International Film Festival in July, we're looking forward to our meeting our audiences at SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL and a Curta Kinoforum in Sao Paolo.

Director  with Ro on the set of Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag - .short.film . The film just premiered at . Next u...
23/05/2025

Director with Ro on the set of Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag - .short.film . The film just premiered at . Next up:

📷 Svetoslav Stoyanov / www.btsphotography.bg

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20/05/2025

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Lili Koss réalisatrice/director de Eraserhead in a knitted shopping bag / Eraserhead dans un Filet à Provisions en Séance Spéciale - Courts métrages / Special screening Short Films
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20/05/2025
 and  having some down time on the set of Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag by   📷 Svetoslav Stoyanov / www.btsphotog...
19/05/2025

and having some down time on the set of Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag by 📷 Svetoslav Stoyanov / www.btsphotography.bg

This is a good moment to extend our immmense gratitude to all the institutions that supported us on this journey: Национ...
19/05/2025

This is a good moment to extend our immmense gratitude to all the institutions that supported us on this journey: Национален филмов център / Bulgarian National Film Center, Национален фонд „Култура“/ National Culture Fund, Bulgaria, Creative Europe, IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival, European Short Pitch, Столична община. 🙏

🎬Eraserhead in a knitted shopping bag, късоmетражният филм на Лили Кос беше посрещнат много топло и възторжено от публиката на @ Semaine de la Critique - Cannes!
Поздравления на целия екип и на продуцентите от Portokal!
Страхотна работа сте свършили!

Фото кредит: Mira Staleva

Behind the scenes of Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag.📷 Svetoslav Stoyanov / www.btsphotography.bg
18/05/2025

Behind the scenes of Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag.
📷 Svetoslav Stoyanov / www.btsphotography.bg

 at the Bulgarian Happy Hour, hosted by .bg at the SEE Pavilion at Cannes. Counting down the hours to the premiere of Er...
17/05/2025

at the Bulgarian Happy Hour, hosted by .bg at the SEE Pavilion at Cannes. Counting down the hours to the premiere of Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag at .May 18, 4pm, Miramar

"His films can't leave you indifferent, the unease they provoke and the way that they force you to connect with yourself...
06/05/2025

"His films can't leave you indifferent, the unease they provoke and the way that they force you to connect with yourself and your subconscious is, to me, the ultimate purpose of cinema."
Writer-director Lili Koss in a conversation with Esther Brejon about our film Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag.

Semaine de la Critique - Cannes
Национален филмов център / Bulgarian National Film Center
Национален фонд „Култура“/ National Culture Fund, Bulgaria
Creative Europe
IN THE PALACE International Short Film Festival

For her first short film, Lili Koss takes us to 1990s Bulgaria, into a world without adults, where children grow up far from the innocence we might expect. In industrial landscapes, bathed in the glow of summer, a young girl’s search for a VHS tape of Eraserhead takes on the appearance of a cineph...

🍾 "ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG" by Lili Koss is taking us to La Croisette! Lili's homage to the transformative ...
17/04/2025

🍾 "ERASERHEAD IN A KNITTED SHOPPING BAG" by Lili Koss is taking us to La Croisette!
Lili's homage to the transformative power of cinema will have its world premiere in Semaine de la Critique - Cannes during this year's Festival de Cannes and we don't know where to begin with expressing our joy and immense gratitude to all the wonderful people who were part of making this film. We'll come back to that in a bit, when we have recovered our composure. Hurray!

Национален филмов център / Bulgarian National Film Center
Национален фонд „Култура“/ National Culture Fund, Bulgaria
Creative Europe

In the slow, sticky summer of late-90s Eastern Europe, twelve-year-old Ro sets out to procure a pirated copy of Eraserhead by David Lynch. Her journey—through crumbling friendships, stolen ci******es, and VHS-era power games—unfolds in a world where childhood slips quietly into something else, a...

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Portokal is an award-winning boutique independent production company that supports emerging talent and acclaimed filmmakers in the development, production and distribution of their author-driven work. We started out in 2000, at the intersection of art and social change, working with disadvantaged youth and producing a number of documentary film and photography projects with the support of The Soros Foundation, CARE International Foundation, Open Society, Bulgarian Photographic Association, and others. Our works have participated in the Venice Biennale, as well as at festivals in Madrid, Dublin, Moscow, Bratislava, Sarajevo and others. We began developing our independent film production unit in 2011, and in 2013/2014, our founding team completed two films that enjoyed international acclaim: The Last Black Sea Pirates (Produced by Agitprop) and Pride. Our current claim to fame is international co-productions for short fiction and feature-length creative documentaries. That said, we are now working to bring that experience into producing European feature films that have a distinct voices and aesthetics.