My work drifts between the themes of identity and belonging, growing in those imperceptible spaces where contradictions surface. Inspired by movement, literature, and music, I seek out the details of human experience that are nearly invisible, but undeniably present, exploring the ways they shape us, subtly and indelibly.
Directing, writing, and photography, different approaches to the same enormous fascination with the question of what it means to be a human today, yesterday or tomorrow. A way to document, to translate, to give shape to whatever lays beneath the surface of the mundane.
From Clermont-Ferrand to European Short Pitch and Semaine de la Critique du Cannes, Curtas Vila Do Conde, my work has gradually found its way into the right rooms. Along the way, gestures of support from Creative Europe, the Bulgarian National Film Center, and the National Cultural Fund, have played a quiet but vital role in my development. Georgi Dyulgerov and David Lynch, through a series of unexpected turns, have crossed paths with my work and my life, offering their recognition and urging me forward.
Directing
Filmmaking, for me, is a way of noticing, of catching those fleeting, in between moments that reveal more than words ever could. My stories live in contradictions: intimacy and distance, stillness and movement, reality and the surreal. My characters don’t just exist within a frame; they push against it, searching for something beyond.
Whether developing a film, a scene, or a single frame, I approach each one with the same questions: How do we bring authenticity to the world we are trying to create? Where do we look for it? How do we translate the invisible into particular sound, picture, movement and why?
A Selection of my Work
Cinema is a dialogue, a quiet back and forth between image and viewer. My preferred partners in crime are preoccupied with the same questions, as they serve the story instead of their own ego.
