Culture — Bulgaria's public culture money and who gets it
State money for culture arrives by four different routes that do not add up to a single figure: the Ministry of Culture's annual budget, the public contracts of the state cultural institutes, the National Film Center's film subsidies, and EU funds. This page puts them side by side — each with its basis, because one is an annual flow and the others accumulate from 2011 onwards.
What you'll find
Film subsidies — €94.9M from the National Film Center across 944 projects and 262 producers (2014–2025), by discipline and year.
Public contracts — what the Ministry, the state cultural institutes and the national art schools buy, with the single-bidder share against the national baseline.
Who decides — the artistic commissions that award the film subsidy, outside the Public Procurement Act.
Who runs them — the directors of the state cultural institutes and the declarations they file.