Bojina Panayotova

Bojina Panayotova has grown up in Bulgaria and moved to France after the fall of the Berlin Wall. She studied film at La Fémis, where she met the directors and producers Stank. With their support, she made two films that explore Bulgaria by intertwining the intimate and the political.
In Je vois rouge, selected for the Berlinale, she takes her family on a tragicomic odyssey around the files of the communist secret police. In L’immeuble des braves, a multi-award-winning short film, in competition at Cinéma du réel 2019, she follows a man searching for his missing dogs and captures the atmosphere of the Bulgarian capital, between paranoia, absurdity, and social tension.
Passionate about dance, she collaborated with researcher Isabelle Klein on a performance about the dance epidemic of 1518.
At the same time, she enjoys immersing herself in other worlds and putting herself at the service of her peers. She co-wrote Camille by Boris Lojkine (2019) and Fils de chien, je te félicite by Xavier Sirven (in production), and also works as a script supervisor.