Elitza Gueorguieva

History

Elitza Gueorgieva is an author of documentary films, performer, and writer. She was born in Sofia and has been living and working in Paris for the past 15 years. After completing her M.A. in Cinema, she worked as an assistant director and editor for a number of production companies. She also authored a number of documentaries, namely Waiting for, and Every Wall Is a Door (2 Specials Mentions of the jury of Cinéma du réel in Paris). Elitza Gueorguieva is also a writer. Her first novel "The Cosmonauts Are Just Passing by" was published in September 2016 by the Éditions Verticales (Award SDGL André Dubreuil for first novel). In addition, she has published short texts in different literary magazines (Dyonisies, Jef Klak et Vue sur cour). Elitza is a regular performer of literary texts on different stages and in various forums (le Tarmac, Le Théâtre Ouvert, le Khiasma, le Festival Hors-Limites, la Maison de la poésie in Paris, Paris en toutes lettres, etc).

Movies

Our Quiet Place
Our Quiet Place
Cinematography
Elitza Gueorguieva films the making of the novel that her Belarusian alter-ego Aliona begins about her father, a maritime adventurer, physicist and dreamer, who disappeared off the Turkish coast in 1995.
Our Quiet Place
Our Quiet Place
Director
Elitza Gueorguieva films the making of the novel that her Belarusian alter-ego Aliona begins about her father, a maritime adventurer, physicist and dreamer, who disappeared off the Turkish coast in 1995.
Every Wall is a Door
Every Wall is a Door
Director
Drawing on VHS tapes of a programme hosted by her mother on Bulgaria’s national television, the filmmaker gives a pop-style and in-depth chronicle of the gentle – even “over-gentle” – 1989 revolution.