
Directing
Ivan Dimitrov
Born 2003-11-12 · Madrid, Spain
Ivan Dimitrov is a Spanish-Bulgarian filmmaker who has written and directed short films including Paradiso (2025), Silencio (2024), and Negativ (2023). Working with analog textures and crafting otherworldly, period-inspired settings, his films navigate the threshold between the transcendental and the terrifying, creating haunting atmospheres that mirror the inner turmoil of his characters.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
8.4A medieval peasant suffering from the plague encounters the spirit of his dead wife as he wanders into the forest.
Silencio
2024
8.4A medieval peasant suffering from the plague encounters the spirit of his dead wife as he wanders into the forest.
Silencio
2024
7.4Inside a cold and rusty bunker, Irina and Georgi endure the aftermath of a nuclear war. Georgi’s heavy radiation sickness and imminent death prompt Irina to repair his old, beloved guitar so he can hear it one last time.
Paradiso
2025
7.4Inside a cold and rusty bunker, Irina and Georgi endure the aftermath of a nuclear war. Georgi’s heavy radiation sickness and imminent death prompt Irina to repair his old, beloved guitar so he can hear it one last time.
Paradiso
2025
7.4Inside a cold and rusty bunker, Irina and Georgi endure the aftermath of a nuclear war. Georgi’s heavy radiation sickness and imminent death prompt Irina to repair his old, beloved guitar so he can hear it one last time.
Paradiso
2025
5.5A cosmonaut reaches a distant planet with the mission of planting a scientific device whose consequences surpass human understanding.
Khaos
2023
5.5A cosmonaut reaches a distant planet with the mission of planting a scientific device whose consequences surpass human understanding.
Khaos
2023
5.8In Bulgaria 1959, a young man is sent to fight after the Cold War erupts into a global conflict. An incident leaves the soldieralone and disoriented in the Balkan forests, where paranoia and mysticism will guide him towards insanity.
Chernobog
2021
8.0A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.
Negativ
2023
8.0A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.
Negativ
2023
NRA woman asks a mysterious knight for help in searching for her parents.
Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada
2024
NRA poetic exploration of heaven and hell, the apocalypse and the afterlife, through the lens of a VHS camera.
Cherveno
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NRAlthough he works in a nice nursery, surrounded by plants and making bouquets, the real aspiration of Jorge is to become a mortician. However, as he goes through the simulations at his thanatopraxy school, he wonders if he will really be able to face reality when the time comes to see a deceased person.
Someone Dies
2024
NRAlthough he works in a nice nursery, surrounded by plants and making bouquets, the real aspiration of Jorge is to become a mortician. However, as he goes through the simulations at his thanatopraxy school, he wonders if he will really be able to face reality when the time comes to see a deceased person.
Someone Dies
2024


