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Lust

New Directors Competition

Lust

Lust

direction Ralitza Petrova

Bulgaria, Denmark, Sweden 2026 Fiction Cor 77 min.

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Lilian is a parole officer whose life is governed by clinical precision – her body, emotions, and desires held under strict control. When she is summoned back to her hometown to settle the death of an absent father, what should be a brief administrative detour unravels into unresolved debts, institutional inertia, and a decaying body caught in bureaucratic limbo. Moving through offices, hotel rooms, and abandoned dwellings, the narrative charts a descent into proximity – with grief, flesh, and a desire long anesthetized. An uneasy connection with a Shibari rigger makes Lilian test the limits of control and surrender as the knots of her past unravel. Can she find her way back to a body she’s long since abandoned? Presented at the Berlin International Film Festival.

bulgaria denmark sweden international film festivals women directors body & mind relationships & sexuality women-centered stories family

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technical sheet

direction

Ralitza Petrova

screenplay

Ralitza Petrova

cinematography

Julian Atanassov

editing

Per K. Kirkegaard, Ralitza Petrova

sound design

Carlos E. Garcia

casting

Nina Boyanova, Kerry Koprivlenska

production design

Vanina Geleva

cast

Snejanka Mihaylova, Nikola Mutafov, Mihail Milchev, Alexis Atmadjov

production

Nikolay Todorov, Poli Angelova, Ralitza Petrova

co-production

Eva Jakobsen, Anna Byvald

produced by

Aporia Filmworks, Screening Emotions

co-produced by

Snowglobe, Silver Films, Film i Väst

world sales

Inwave Films

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