Born in Bulgaria in 1974, Ralitza Petrova studied cinema and worked in documentary and short film. Her feature debut Godless (Bezbog, 2016), about a care worker in a Bulgarian town who steals identity documents from the old people she looks after in order to sell them, won the Golden Leopard for best film at Locarno and the best actress prize for Irena Ivanova. The film is a portrait of moral decay and loneliness in post-Communist Bulgaria.
Filmography
- Godless (2016)
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