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Ralitza Dimitrova
Born 7.06.1962 in Sofia

TRAINING AND DIPLOMAS
1997 - seminar “The woman and the writing” in Leeds; certificate;
1993 - workshop for script organised by UNESCO in Chartreuse de Villeneuve les Avignon, certificate
1982 - 1986 - VGIK in Moskow; diploma of cinema director
1981 - 1982 - faculte es lettre in the University of Sofia
1975 - 1980 - French college in Sofia, diploma

PROFESSIONAL REALISATION
from 1999 – freelance director
1995 - 1999 director in Bulgarian National Television
1986 - 1992 - director in film studio for documentary in Sofia
1982 - assistant director Bulgarian national television
1981 - assistant director in Boyana film studio
Author and director of more than 100 films - documentaries, spots, childrens films etc.
Author of articles in different newspapers and magazines
Author of radio-dramas.
Member of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers from 1989.
Member of International Organisation of Journalists.

FESTIVALS AND PRIZES :
Celections and awards in Bulgaria, Russia, Germany, Poland, Italy, France, Japan, Portugal, USA, Kosovo, India etc.

THE AVANGERESS
- Gladiator International Film Festival 2024 – Award for Best Documentary and Best DOP
- Pápa International Historical Film Festival - Award of the city
- Hollywood Best Indie Film Awards 2024 - Honorable Mention
- Author Film Festival – Winner best action film
- World Indie Film Awards 2024, China – Semi-Finalist
- International Motion Picture Awards 2024 – Canada – Winner
- Stockholm City Film Festival – Finalist
- Star Film Festival, Spain - Winner
- Indie Doc Pro – 2024 – Award winner
- Tagus Art Association Film Festival, Lisbon- 2024
- Forum Film – finalist in several categories
- Luleå International Film Festival – Sweden
- Eastern Europe Film Festival, Turkey
- Międzynarodowy Festiwal Filmowy NNW, Gdynia, Poland, 2024
- Great Maple Screen Festival, Canada
- European Awards Film Festival
- HISTORY International Film Festival, Austria, 2024
- International Stockholm Film Festival, Sweden, 2024
- Calcutta Film Competion, 2025, India - Honorable Mention Award
- Luis Bunuel Memorial Awards, 2025, India - Best Documentary Award
- Carpe Diem, 2025, Spain – Best European Documentary
- No Country for Old Films, Spain, 2024, Winner
- Toronto International Filmmakers Festival 2025, Canada - Outstanding Achievement Award
- Virgin Spring Cinefest 2025, India – Winner
- Film House Award 2025, Spain – Award Best Documentary
- Sterling International Cine Carnival, London, 2025 – Honorable Mention Award
- Nexus International Film Festival, USA, 2025 – Critic Choice Award
- Mont Blanc International Film Festival, France, 2025 - Award for Artistic Brilliance
- Mumbai Entertainment International Short Film Festival, 2025, India - Winner - Best Female director
- Dramatica Film Festival, Spain, 2025 – Best Documentary Film
- Faba film Festival, 2025 - Audience Choice Award
- Frostland Film Festival, 2025 - Best Documentary
- Rome Prisma Film Awards 2025
- New York Film&Female Actress Award – 2025 – Winner Best Docu Drama
-The Woman Bioscope – 2025

BALLADE FOR GALILEI :
- TAYF International Short Film Festival 2022, Turkey – Award “Best Documentary film”
- Prisma - Roma Independent Film Awards, 2023 - Award;
- “Listapad” 2021, Byelorussia, Special Diploma
- “Golden Vityaz” 2021, Russia – Golden Diploma
- Kosice International Monthly Film Festival 2021– Honorable Mention: Short Documentary;
- Prague International Monthly Film Festival 2021– Honorable Mention: Short Documentary
- Doc Only 2025 – Nominee
- Golden Reel – Singapore 2022 – Best Documentary Short

WHAT COLOUR IS THIS WORLD:
– Award for Best Documentary of the European Spiritual Film Festival 2021, France;
- Special Award of the festival “Slavyanska prikazka” 2020, Bulgaria;
- Award of the 6-th Peloponnesus International Documentary Festival 2020, Greece
- Award of the Bulgarian Documentary’s Film Festival “Golden Rhyton” 2019
- Winner at the 4th season of L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival (LIAFF) 2020, India;
- Diploma of the Profest Film Festival 2020, Serbia;
- Close Film Festival 2023 – Award Winner

SAGA FOR THE WASTED OPPORTUNITIES – Award of the History Film Festival, 2018, Warsaw, Poland

THE MARCH OF LETTERS:
– Award of the History Film Festival 2017, Warsaw, Poland
– First prize of the festival for historical heritage “IDOLS” 2016;
- Special Award of the festival “Slavyanska prikazka” 2016;

I AM A HOMESCHOOLER – Award of the festival for historical heritage “IDOLS” 2016;

DIMITAR SHISHMANOV, FOR REFLECTION:
- Nomination for the award of Sofia city for Best Film 2015
- Nomination for Best Documentary Film and for Best Director, Best Director of Photography and Best Scenography from Bulgarian Film Academy 2015
- Award of the Union of Bulgarian Filmmakers at the Bulgarian National Documentary's Film Festival Zlaten Rhyton 2014;

2015 - I AM HAPPY - Award of the festival "Golden Vityaz", Russia


HE WHO TRAVELS ALONE...
- Award for Best Director of documentary from Bulgarian Film Academy 2013
- Award for Best Director of Photography for documentary from Bulgarian Film Academy 2013
- Nomination for Best Documentary Film from Bulgarian Film Academy
- Special Jury Award of Bulgarian Documenatry's Film Festival Zlaten Rhyton 2012

OUR MERCHANDISE IS OUR BEST ADVERTISEMENT!
- Nomination for best TV documentary from Bulgarian Film Academy 2012
- Nomination for the award of Sofia city 2011

THREE MEN BY THE WATER - Special Diploma on Bulgarian Documentary’s film festival 2008

ZAEDNO - Award for the documentary on the Festival of Bulgarian Euro-intergration 2007

SELF-PORTRAIT AS A YOUNG MAN - special award of jury for outstanding achievement in the domain of documentary on Plovdiv International TV and film festival 2000

ALL THAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THE KOMSOMOL... - award on Bulgarian Documentary’s film festival 1989


SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
Occupation: Filmmaker, 54 min., 2026
Untold Stories – 5 short documentaries – 2026
Boris Dimovski - 54 min. 2025
The Other Museum – The Passion – 4 short documentaries - 2025
The Avengeress, 77 min., 2024
Memories of the Saving, 54 min., 2023
The Virtuoso, 54 min., 2023
The Sendov’s Algorithm, 54 min., 2022
Shelter – 30 min., 2022
Blaga – 54 min., 2022
Zvetan Marangosov – 54 min., 2022
Nestorov’s. Story of a family – 54 min., 2021
Ballade for Galilei – 27 min., 2021
Women worlds – 30 min., 2020
What Colour is This World – 56 min., 2019
Saga for the Wasted Opportunities – 60 min., 2018
The Two Elephants and the Grass – 75 min., 2018
Sentimental Story – 54 min., 2017
The Egg – 30 min., 2016
Masters – 30 min., 2016
The March Of Letters - 87 min., 2015
Children Academy - 30 min., 2014
Dimitar Shishmanov, Reflection - 60 min., 2014
I am Happy - 30 min., 2014
I am a Homeschooler, 50 min., 2013
He Who Travels Alone..., 72 min., 2013
Our Merchandise Is Our Best Advertisement!, 47 min., 2011
A Snowdrop In The Swamp, 30 min., 2010
Bulgarian Theatre, 52 min., 2009
Three Men By The Water, 48 min. – 2008
White Memories, 30 min. – 2008
The Island of Tzar Samuil- 54 min., 2003
Glass Bead Game – 25 min., 2002
A Self-portrait As A Young Man - 47 min., 2000
A Day Of Life In Vanity - 27 min, 1998
Forgotten Land - 40 min., 1995
Shadow Of Woman - 25 min, 1994
Behind The River - 26 min., 1993
The College - 36 min, 1992
The Magic Sin - 22 min., 1991
The Propaganda - 20 min, 1991
The Generation. Memory for Tsvetan Stoyanov - 47 min., 1990
They And The Others - 6 min., 1989
Philipopolis - 59 min, 1989
Polyphony - 30 min., 1988
The Bar "Iconostase" - 18 min, 1988
Yaila - The City Of Deads - 15 min, 1987
All That You Have Always Wanted To Know About The Komsomol... - 15 min, 1987
Remember... - 18 min., 1987
The Golden Key - 10 min, 1986
Profession - Student- 10 min, 1986
Equation With All Unknowns - 18 min, 1986
Memory Of Dream - 10 min, 1985
Stage - 10 min, 1984
The Kingdom Of Eternity - 8 min, 1983
The touch - 7 min., 1980

SELECTED TV FILMS:
Running Times;
The Century Of Bulgaria (90 10-min long films about the history of ХХ century in Bulgaria);
Chipike (10 short films for children);
Blus Society (TV show on the history of the blus);
It's Just Between Us (5 short films for children);
Joyful Mystery (5 short films for children);
documentary films about famous folklore singers, jazz and classic musicians;
20 documentaries for the ethnic relationships in Bulgaria - Zaedno;
50 documentaries Crossroads Times;
200 10-minutes long documentaries for Little Stories etc.