Sofia International Film Festival (Sofia Film Fest) (Bulgarian: Международен София Филм Фест, София Филм Фест) gathers together in Sofia films, guests, stars, journalists and cinema fans. Featured in Variety's Top 50 of cinema festivals, the event presents Bulgaria to the world as the host one of the important film festivals in Europe and takes place annually in March. What started as a thematic music film festival, went through 17 previous editions to become the cinema event of the year, bringing the current world cinema trends to the domestic viewers in Bulgaria and the latest in Bulgarian cinema to the rest of the world.