PRAYER SUPPORT APPEAL

Dear friends,

Glory to God — this year, something monumental happened in our film history: Bulgaria now has its first full-length feature film with a Christian theme – Don’t Close Your Eyes.

The realization of this film is a deeply cherished dream of mine, one I have longed for for over fifteen years. The film has already been watched by tens of thousands of viewers both in Bulgaria and abroad. It is now set to be translated into other languages so that it can reach even more people around the world. The feedback has been so heartfelt and warm that I find myself without words to express my gratitude to God and to everyone who worked so hard to make it a reality. Evaluations from some of the most renowned international film festivals have confirmed its value, and it has received many prestigious awards.

In the spirit of this spiritual joy, I now turn to all of you — brothers and sisters, viewers, readers, friends, and kindred spirits — and ask for your heartfelt prayer support and intercession for the realization of the sequel to Don’t Close Your Eyes, which is titled The Last Promise, based on my novel of the same name.

The script for the film is already complete. I wrote it with great love — with heart and soul. It doesn’t differ significantly from the book but captures its most essential elements without diminishing the strength of the main characters or the warmth of the story. We will once again meet the actress Irena Milyankova (in the role of Nikolina) and her grown-up daughter Anna, but now about twelve years later in time.

According to playwrights, The Last Promise will show viewers that when life takes everything from us, God is mighty and can restore what is most precious. In a world torn between pain and forgiveness, a young woman — Anna — will go through the darkest of trials to learn to love without fear. A man — Simeon — will lose everything to find God and his soul. A child — Viktor — will be born out of sin, but will grow up with meaning and purpose. And a love — unexpected and pure — will become God's answer to human suffering and prayer.

The Last Promise will be a film about those crucial decisions that mark our fate and shape our lives forever. It will be a story about a mother’s courage to love an unwanted and rejected child; about a man’s great inner battle with himself and his fears; about the road to true repentance, and about forgiveness and mercy, which sometimes come with our final breath.

This film will not be merely a drama. It will be life, told with revelation — an unpredictable story where crime, suffering, and repentance are woven into catharsis and redemption. A film in which the last promise of a wronged and broken father becomes the real hope and support of his only daughter.

The Last Promise will be a film that makes the viewer fall silent. Bow their head. Give thanks. And realize that God never forgets those who love Him — and always fulfills their prayers.

A few months ago, I had the honor of meeting His Holiness Patriarch Daniel and sharing the script of the film with him. I spoke about this meeting on the Bulgarian National Television program Religion Today. He blessed the script and promised to pray for its realization. The Holy Synod also gave its support and blessing.

I am fully aware that making a second Christian-themed film in Bulgaria will be a long and difficult journey requiring great perseverance and dedication. But God is almighty. He is full of love for us and promises to help if we pray to Him with all our heart.

"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7–8)

That is why I ask you to support The Last Promise with your sincere and heartfelt prayers. Let us pray to God for this future film with faith, conviction, and persistence — and it will come to be.

Thank you, dear friends! Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

May God bless you!