Konstantin Bojanov

Konstantin Bojanov (born 1968) is a Bulgarian artist and filmmaker.^[1]

Konstantin Bojanov
Born	1968 (age 56–57)
Occupations	Visual artist filmmaker

Education

Bojanov graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Sofia in 1987, after which he earned a master's degree from the Royal College of Art in London. He later studied documentary filmmaking at New York University.^[1][2]

Career

After working as a visual artist throughout the 1990s in London, Bojanov directed his first short film, Lemon is Lemon in 2001.^[1][2] This was followed by the 2005 feature documentary Invisible, which detailed the impact of heroin on six individuals from his hometown of Sofia.^[3]

Bojanov's first narrative feature, Avé, screened in the Critics' Week section of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] His second feature, Light Thereafter premiered at the 2017 International Film Festival Rotterdam.^[2]

The Shameless, Bojanov's third narrative feature, was selected to debut in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.^[4]

Filmography

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
2001	Lemon Is Lemon	Short film	[2]
2005	Invisible	Documentary	[2]
2011	Avé	—	[2]
2017	Light Thereafter	—	[2]
2024	The Shameless	—	[5]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Ref.
2011	Cannes Film Festival	Camera d'Or	Avé	Nominated	[1]
		Critics' Week Grand Prize		Nominated	[1]
	Hamburg Film Festival	Young Talent Award		Won	[6]
	Sarajevo Film Festival	Special Jury Prize for Feature Film		Won	[6]
	Warsaw International Film Festival	FIPRESCI Prize		Won	[6]
2017	International Film Festival Rotterdam	Hivos Tiger Competition	Light Thereafter	Nominated	[7]
2024	Cannes Film Festival	Un Certain Regard	The Shameless	Nominated	[4]