Bojena Horackova

A Bulgarian native, she spent her childhood in Czechoslovakia before moving to Paris. After studying at the IDHEC, she directed her first feature film in 1996: Mirek n'est pas parti, depicting a group of young Czechs in Paris. In 2000 she directed a documentary in Bulgaria, Fermeture définitive du kolkhoze, thanks to the special Villa Médicis Hors les Murs grant. Her second feature film, À l'Est de moi (2009), was also featured in a radio broadcast by France… (mais)