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Evaporating Borders

director: Iva Radivojević

original title: Evaporating Borders

country: United States

year: 2014

running time: 73 min.

synopsis

Ethnically divided Cyprus is one entry point for those seeking asylum in “Fortress Europe”. In five acts, this film essay offers a subjective look, supported by sociological data, at the phenomenon of immigration as a lived experience. The director, herself a political immigrant, reflects upon the broader contexts of the competing social forces that shape contemporary Europe’s immigration policy, the liberal desire to take in political refugees, and society’s unwillingness to accept them. For the refugees themselves, the journey to freedom often ends by falling into an abyss of hopelessness and despair.

DETAIL:
“With strange paranoia, we shield ourselves from these humans who exile themselves for promises of rich countries. The world is not interested in their tides of humanity. Instead we welcome a new category of criminal: the migrant.”

biography

Originally from Yugoslavia, the director came to Cyprus at a time when her native land was wracked by war. For the past 10 years, she has lived and worked in New York. Her films often explore questions of identity, migration, and immigration. She has previously made only short films, which she has shown at documentary festivals in Rotterdam and Toronto, among others. Evaporating Borders is her feature-length debut.

more about film

director:	Iva Radivojević
producer:	Landon Van Soest, Leandros Savvides
script:	Iva Radivojević
photography:	Iva Radivojević
editing:	Iva Radivojević
music:	Alexander Berne, Stian Westerhus, Sandy Brour, Mon Doumani
sound:	John Moros, Josh Berger, Ian Gaffney-Rosenfeld

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