family

05.08.2021

Team Hoyt: to give your child wings

The incredible story of a father who helps his paralyzed son feel the joy of movement Author: Sylvia Borissova Someone asked Rich what would be the first thing he would do if a miracle happened and he was no longer …

05.08.2021

Who is the real Rain Man?

The story of Kim Peek, the autistic genius who inspired the 1988 film masterpiece Rain Man Author: Sylvia Borissova Kim Peek also became known as the Man-‘computer’—his phenomenal abilities attracted even the NASA scientists’ attention while working on the creation …

05.08.2021

Family exclusion

We need to respect the differences in which children are raised The family consists of a mother, father and children. Hundreds of single parents, grandmothers and relatives raising school-age children have to face this understanding. The traditional understanding of the …

05.08.2021

To fight our own prejudices

It is most difficult to see the walls inside ourselves, which we have imperceptibly erected over time—most often in the name of our survival in difficult situations Explaining tolerance to others is always easy. It is even easier to rebuke …

29.07.2021

7 Billion Others (7 milliards d’autres, 2003– )

The most impressive kaleidoscope of humanity’s personal ideas about love, tolerance, happiness, non-violence, peace and environment ever created Author: Sylvia Borissova 7 Billion Others (7 milliards d’autres, 2003) is an ambitious and unusual art project through which film director, journalist, …

29.07.2021

Armand Amar and the Human music

Armand Amar’s magnificent film music to the masterpiece Human (2015) by Jan Arthus-Bertrand Author: Sylvia Borissova When film director, journalist, photographer and environmentalist Jan Arthus-Bertrand was at the beginning of his spectacular project, the film masterpiece Human (2015), he imagined …

10.05.2021

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women

The choice to be a writer in ‘men’s times’ Author: Sylvia Borissova Translator: Donika Boneva Louisa May Alcott’s very name is hardly as unmistakably recognizable as her novel Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy (1868), which has become …

09.05.2021

Human (2015) through the eyes of Yann Arthus-Bertrand

“What is it that makes us human? Is it that we love, that we fight? That we laugh? Cry? Or our curiosity? The quest for discovery?”

09.10.2020

Inside Out & Back Again

Author: Thanhha Lai For all the ten years of her life, Hà has only known Saigon: the thrills of its markets, the joy of its traditions, and the warmth of her friends close by. But now the Vietnam War has …

06.10.2020

The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd, 2001)

The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of fourteen-year-old Lily Owens who leaves the life she knows behind and embarks on a journey in search of a much needed truth. South Carolina. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 has …