Elena Balandina is an emerging screenwriter and director based in Spain.
A mother of three, she carries a dense life story marked by addiction, migration, loneliness and survival. Her journey — raw, painful and extraordinary — became the foundation of her memoir, which later received a literary award in Milan.

This lived experience is the core of her creative voice.
Elena draws inspiration not from imagination alone, but from life fully felt — the falls, the rises, the ashes, the rebirths. Her work seeks emotional truth without moralizing and without victimhood. Through vulnerability and presence, she invites the viewer not to judge, but to look inward — to remember, to feel, to heal.

Her cinema is intimate, human and visceral.
A reminder that every wound has a pulse — and sometimes, wings.