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Sofia, Underground
documentary film, 2025
Director: Lia Lyutakova
Producer: Lia Lyutakova, Synaesthesia Collective
Camera and edit: Lia Lyutakova
Interviewer: Stefan Hristov
Music: Alisa Nedashkovska
Sofia, Underground is a documentary film exploring the Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, a festival dedicated to the medium of performance art which has been challenging Bulgarian contemporary art since 1997. Through the eyes of the participating artists, the film documents the festival's impact and meaning over the years. In this edition of the festival, a new generation joins the movement.
Sofia, Underground е документален филм, изследващ Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, фестивал посветен на пърформанс арт, който от 1997 г. предизвиква българското съвременно изкуство. През погледа на участващите артисти филмът документира въздействието на фестивала през годините. В това издание на фестивала новото поколение се присъединява към движението.
Length: 42 minutes
Premiered at House of Cinema, Sofia in April 2025
UNIVERSAL TEXTURES
audio-visual installation, 2023
Directors: Lia Lyutakova, Stefan Hristov
Camera and edit: Lia Lyutakova
Sound Design: Antoun Keirouz
in collaboration with Synaesthesia Collective
Length: 11 minutes
Screened at Sofia Underground 2023
HYPERAMBIENCE
music video, 2024
Dance film in creative collaboration with ..o Thought Bubble
Camera: Lia Lyutakova
Driver and AC: Stefan Hristov
Music and video edit: Ashley Maurice and Hari Krishna
Movement artists: Kooki Filia, Lena Klink, Raul Aranha, Susanna Ylikoski
Length: 7 minutes
Stream the full album here: https://thoughtbubble.bandcamp.com/album/the-hyperambience
BITTERSWEET
2024
A candid short film featuring the elderly people who run the Varna thermal bath on a voluntary basis, and the wise words of a local man.
Length: 2 minutes
SHIFTING SANDS
2023
A short poetry film about chaos, change and being an immigrant, using archival material and experimenting with double exposure.
Length: 3 minutes
HERE/THERE
audio-visual installation, 2024
Directors: Lia Lyutakova and Stefan Hristov
Camera and edit: Lia Lyutakova
Sound Design: Antoun Keirouz
in collaboration with Synaesthesia Collective
Length: 10 minutes
Screened at Sofia Underground 2024
KARA (working title)
short film, 2025 (in post-production)
Under the grip of creative paralysis, a young art student drifts through waves of dissociation, her grasp on reality unravelling as she retreats inward - where the boundaries between self, body, and artistic purpose dissolve into a surreal limbo.
Director: Lia Lyutakova
Producers: Nina Strohmenger, Lia Lyutakova, Evgenia Papazisi
Cast: Anneke Schätzle, Aline Xavier, Vasya Gronsky, Stefan Hristov
Camera: Sonja Madani
Camera Assistant: Sonia Kharitouniouk
Gaffer: Elisa Daniel, Sofia Gargantini
Sound: Kristine Hansen
Set Design: Alice Shvarts
Length: 12 minutes
documentary series, 2026 (in production)
- assistant producer / researcher / camera operator
Syndicates
A documentary series on the black market in Germany.
docu/lecture series, 2025 (in production)
Mirror Life
A documentary series on xenobiology.
Director: Philippe Marlière
Producer: Lia Lyutakova
Script: Stefan Hristov
Camera: Kaito Sashihara
Sound: Kristine Hansen
Props: Cedrus Merbau
short dance film, 2025 (in festival circuit)
AMAIA
Director: Nina Strohmenger
Producer: Lia Lyutakova
DOP: Elisa Daniel
Music: Alisa Nedashkovska and Dune Seve
Choreography: Julianna Walczak
short film, 2025 (in post-production)
La Sibila
Director: Isabel Villalonga Ortiz
Producer: Evgenia Papazisi
DOP: Lia Lyutakova
In a ritual of sisterhood, Cassandra seeks insight into her destiny and the fate of the world, listening to the Sybil's voices that carry ancient knowledge.
Memory film (working title)
short film, 2025 (in post-production)
Director: Pien van Pamelen
Camera: Lia Lyutakova, Nina Strohmenger
Sound: Kristine Hansen
Set Design: Carlota Martinez
Lullaby (Visualiser) - Ann Tsai ft. Moiman
visualiser, 2025
Director and editor: Pol Meumann
Camera: Lia Lyutakova
Camera Assistant: Sofia Gargantini
Music: Ann Tsai
FRAMED
short film, 2024
part of the 72 hour Catalyst x Screenology International Filmmaking Challenge
Camera and edit: Lia Lyutakova
Script: Bruna Lazarini
Sound: Pol Meumann, Alex Daehling
Actor: Harvey Slade
Fata Morgana
short film, 2024
Director: Selen Kodzhaali
Producer: Anna Poleva
DOP: Lia Lyutakova
Cast: Ava Azadeh
SCREAM. CRY. YELL. BARK
short film, 2026 (in post-production)
Director: Joanna Stamoulis
DOP: Sonia Kharitouniouk
1st AC: Lia Lyutakova
2nd AC: Natalia Gushchina
Gaffer: Rebekka Bieber
Expecting Paradise
short film, 2025 (in post-production)
Director: Gabriele Plukaite
Producer: Katarina Kangas
DOP: Sonia Kharitouniouk
1st Assistant Camera: Lia Lyutakova
INHERENT
short film, 2024
Director: Kristine Hansen
Producer: Evgenia Papazisi
DOP: Kalun Leung
1st AC and Best Boy: Lia Lyutakova
Actor: Felix Mangold
Upon finding himself trapped in a glass house, a trauma-ridden young painter struggles to escape the external pressure and his haunting past.
short film, 2025
DEMONOLOGY
Director: Carlota Martinez
Producer: Valentine Tusa
DOP:
Gaffer:
Best Girl: Lia Lyutakova
short film, 2024
Entry, Exit, Etc
Director: Kalun Leung
Producer:
DOP: Kaito Sashihara
Gaffer:
Lighting Assistant: Lia Lyutakova
Production assistant and camera operator for Syndicates, documentary TV series for Quintus Studios, 2026
1st AC for Cry, Scream, Yell, Bark, a short film by Joanna Stamoulis, 2026
Director and cinematographer for Sofia, Underground in collaboration with Synaesthesia Collective, 2025
Director for Kara (working title), graduation short film for Catalyst Institute for Creative Arts and Technologies, 2025
Cinematographer for HYPERAMBIENCE, music video in collaboration with ..o Thought Bubble, 2025
Producer for Amaia, a short dance film by Nina Strohmenger, 2025
Co-director and cinematographer for Universal Textures in collaboration with Synaesthesia Collective, 2023
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