The Bulgarian National Film Center is an Executive Agency of the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture that administrates the implementation of the Film Industry Act (FIA). The main functions of the Agency are to finance film production, distribution and exhibition of films, to support the promotion of Bulgarian films in the country and abroad, to keep the register under FIA, to stimulate the development of the film culture.

The Bulgarian National Film Center administers producer’s rights of Bulgarian films, when granted such rights under an act or a contract. It represents Bulgaria at the Board of management of Eurimages Fund of the Council of Europe; it is the coordinator for Bulgaria of the European Audiovisual Observatory and host the MEDIA office of the Creative Europe Program of the EU. The Bulgarian National Film Centre is a European Film Promotion member since 2005.

For the creation, the distribution and the preservation of Bulgarian films the Bulgarian National Film Center collaborates closely with the Bulgarian National Television, the Bulgarian National Film Archives, the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers.

The Bulgarian National Film Center is the organizer of the Golden Rose Festival of Bulgarian Feature Films (Varna), and the Golden Rhyton Documentary and Animation Film Festival (Plovdiv).