LUST

World Premiere: Berlinale 2026 / Forum

Lust follows Lilian, a parole officer whose life is governed by clinical precision—her body, emotions, and desires held under strict control. When she is summoned back to her hometown to settle the death of an absent father, what should be a brief administrative detour unravels into unresolved debts, institutional inertia, and a decaying body caught in bureaucratic limbo.

Moving through offices, hotel rooms, and abandoned dwellings, 'Lust' charts a descent into proximity—with grief, flesh, and a desire long anesthetized. An uneasy connection with a Shibari rigger offers a practice of controlled vulnerability, where intimacy is negotiated rather than promised.

With austere restraint and unsettling tenderness, Lust explores the fragile boundary between authority and surrender, asking what remains when control is no longer enough.

A FILM BY Ralitza Petrova | Bulgaria / Denmark / Sweden | 2026 | 77’ | Sales: Inwave Films

With: Snejanka Mihaylova, Nikola Mutafov, Mihail Milchev, Alexis Atmadjov