Evaporating Borders
DIRECTOR: Iva Radivojevic COUNTRIES: United States, Cyprus YEAR: 2014 LANGUAGE(S): Arabic, Greek, English SUBTITLES: English, German RUNNING TIME: 73 min
SECTION: International Competition 2015
SYNOPSIS
An essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders offers a series of vignettes, poetically guided by the filmmaker’s curious eye and personal reflections. Through the people she encounters along the way, the film dissects the experience of asylum seekers in Cyprus: A PLO activist and exile from Iraq is denied asylum within 15 minutes; neo-Nazi fundamentalists roam the streets in an attack on Muslim migrants; activists and academics organize an antifascist rally and clash with the neo-Nazis; 195 migrants drown in the Mediterranean.
Originally from Yugoslavia and an immigrant to Cyprus, Iva Radivojevic investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on the sense of national identity in one of the easiest ports of entry into Fortress Europe. Poetically photographed and rendered, the film passionately weaves the themes of migration, tolerance, identity and belonging.
IVA RADIVOJEVIC
Iva Radivojevic spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus before settling in NYC. Her work explores the theme of identity, migration and immigrants. Iva’s films have screened at various film festivals and her collaborative film Matthew 24:14 won the 2011 International Documentary Challenge competition for Best Director, Best Film and Best Use of Genre. She is the recipient of 2011 Princess Grace Film Fellowship, 2012 Princess Grace Special Project Award and a participating talent at the 2012 Berlinale Talent Campus. Iva was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film of 2013 by Filmmaker Magazine. EVAPORATING BORDERS is Iva’s first feature length documentary.
FILMOGRAPHY
11 Years of Absence (2008), Purple (2009), We the People Have Found Our Voice (2011), Nobody Can Predict the Moment of Revolution (2011), Matthew 24:14 (2011), Ben: In the Mind’s Eye (2012), Evaporating Borders (2014)
PRODUCERS: Landon van Soest, Leandros Savvides CAMERA: Iva Radivojevic EDITOR: Iva Radivojevic
PRODUCTION: Ivaasks Films WORLD SALES: Ivaasks Films