
Ivan Dimitrov
Directing
Biography
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.
Known For

A medieval peasant suffering from the plague encounters the spirit of his dead wife as he wanders into the forest.
Silencio

Inside 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

Francisco is a beggar who lives in the Almudena cemetery. One afternoon, while walking among the graves, he meets Julio, another peculiar beggar who claims to be a poet.
Cerré los ojos y me hablaron las hormigas

A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.
Negativ
Trapped in a world of ants, dust and steel.
Antface

Although 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

A poetic exploration of heaven and hell, the apocalypse and the afterlife, through the lens of a VHS camera.
Cherveno

A woman asks a mysterious knight for help in searching for her parents.
Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada

In 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

A cosmonaut reaches a distant planet with the mission of planting a scientific device whose consequences surpass human understanding.