Luca Pereș-Bota
Directing
Luca Pereș-Bota (1997) is a Romanian-Belgian director and editor working between Romania, Belgium, and the Czech Republic. He grew up between Romania and Belgium and graduated with great distinction in Film Directing from RITCS (Brussels). His graduation short Dincolo (2022), a fictional portrait of Romanian labour migration, received a Special Mention at Filmfestival Oostende and was selected at FilmFestival Cottbus. He completed a Master’s in Film Editing at FAMU in Prague in 2025. The first collaboration with Nikol Urbanová as co-creators was FLOWERBOYS (2024), which was selected at the Berlin XPOSED Queer Festival and Art200 in Bucharest. They continued with Sestry (2026) with Luca, a 16mm graduation film supported by FAMU and Banijay Belgium, which won the 2024 Pitch Your Script Award at Kortfilmfestival Leuven. Currently he's preparing his first series with Banijay Belgium.
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Known for
Behind the camera9
- 2026Sestry Director, Writer, Editor
- 2026Too Dark For Light Director, Editor
- 2025Yaga Editor
- 2024Flowerboys Writer, Director, Director of Photography, Editor
- 2024Vilse Editor
- 2022Supper Editor
- 2022Dincolo Director
- 2021SAFA Director, Writer
- 2018Lost Son Writer, Editor, Director
