Kristina Spassovska

Kristina Spassovska is a Bulgarian writer-director born in Geneva in 1990, based in Sofia. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from EICAR Paris, before founding the production company Bellevue Kino in 2019 in Sofia. Her short films Motherland (2020), Everything Tastes Strange Today (2023), and The Reptiles (2024) have screened and won awards at major festivals. She is a Talents Sarajevo 2022 and European Short Pitch 2021/2022 alumna; selected for the First Film First program by the Goethe Institute 2022/2023; won the Transilvania Development Award at the Transylvania International Film Festival 2022. Kristina is currently developing her debut feature film The Reptiles, produced by Bellevue Kino and granted by the Bulgarian National Bulgarian Film Center.

The Reptiles

LIM² 2026

A filmmaker and her characters revisit Operation “Reptiles”, a surveillance case against the film director’s family during Bulgaria’s totalitarian regime. Blending fiction, surreal reenactments and archival footage, The Reptiles becomes a ghost story, haunting those who inherited the silence of “those times”, as Bulgarians still call them today.