'No Place For You In Our Town' pulls you into the heads of the football hooligans from the roughest city in Bulgaria — Pernik. A once flourishing industrial center, today all that’s left is the urban legend about its citizens’ toughness — an echo of the miners’ brave and glorious past underground. Having exclusive access, Nikolay Stefanov’s camera silently follows Tsetso, a skinhead and single father; the gang leader Dado; and Mimeto, the only woman in the group. They are all devoted to helping their team rise from the last league, reliving the strength and unity of their ancestors, the miners. Their usual lifestyle, however, gets seriously challenged when Tsetso falls ill and stays in the hospitals for months, while the decaying city faces a grave water crisis caused by corruption and crime. Amidst the serious personal and communal crises, Nikolay Stefanov’s camera peeks underneath the hooligans’ tough and rough appearance and explores their lives — and the lives of millions like them across the globe — with openness and genuine human curiosity.

Dir. Nikolay Stefanov - 81min - 2022 - Bulgaria

"uncomfortably up close with Bulgarian football hooligans...Nikolay Stefanov’s documentary, which follows fans of FC Minyor Pernik, reveals much about what is behind this toxic masculinity" - Guardian

"Stefanov’s patient eye looks beyond that veneer of violent masculinity and finds through Tsetso, a skinhead hooligan with a Swastika on his chest and a single father, a wide range of nuance that give surprising depth to their human experience.” - Variety

"Nikolay Stefanov's first feature film as a director slowly creeps under the skin of the tattooed hooligans in the once thriving mining town. And beneath the swastikas and the tribal mentality, the tough men and women from Pernik still share a desire for a different and better life." - CPH DOX, Next Wave Competition

"Stefanov’s camera looks on silently, beyond fascist ideology and their racist chants, at the personal lives of these working-class fanatics. The result is a complex and quietly familiar portrait of a forgotten town living in the uncertain wake of de-industrialisation." - Sheffield Doc Fest

**Winner** - Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Editing - Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers Awards 2023