Directing

Ivan Dimitrov

Born November 12, 2003 · Madrid, Spain (age 22)

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

Silencio

Silencio · 2024

MovieHorrorDrama

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

Antface

Antface · 2026

Ants, dust and steel.

Paradiso

Paradiso · 2025

MovieDramaHorror

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.

Khaos

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

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

Chernobog

Chernobog · 2021

MovieHorrorFantasy

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.

Cerré los ojos y me hablaron las hormigas

Cerré los ojos y me hablaron las hormigas · 2023

Cerré los ojos y me hablaron las hormigas

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.

Cherveno

MovieDocumentary

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

Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada

Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada · 2024

Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada

MovieFantasyMystery

A woman asks a mysterious knight for help in searching for her parents.

Filmography

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Silencio

Silencio · 2024

MovieHorrorDrama

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

Director

Antface

Antface · 2026

Ants, dust and steel.

Still Photographer

Paradiso

Paradiso · 2025

MovieDramaHorror

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.

Director

Khaos

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

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

Director

Chernobog

Chernobog · 2021

MovieHorrorFantasy

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.

Director

Cerré los ojos y me hablaron las hormigas

Cerré los ojos y me hablaron las hormigas · 2023

Cerré los ojos y me hablaron las hormigas

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.

Still Photographer

Cherveno

MovieDocumentary

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

Director

Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada

Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada · 2024

Fleyne: La Paloma Abandonada

MovieFantasyMystery

A woman asks a mysterious knight for help in searching for her parents.

Producer

Negativ

Negativ · 2023

MovieHorrorDrama

A photographer during the Soviet-Afghan war becomes obsessed with a mysterious figure that appears in his images every time the person photographed dies.

Director

The end of the beginning of the end

The end of the beginning of the end

The end of the beginning of the end

MovieDocumentaryHorror

From the fringes of an image, the search must continue. An attempt to reconcile Herzog and Thoreau, the Walden Pond against a screeching nature. Alas, to no avail. The search MUST continue.

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Someone Dies

Someone Dies · 2024

MovieDocumentary

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.

Director