Presented by RIDM. Co-presented by the Critical Media Lab and the McGill Refugee Research Group.

Born in Belgrade, Iva Radivojević left Yugoslavia with her family for Cyprus in the early 90s, during the Balkan war. She later emigrated to the United States, where she studied film in New York. She is currently completing her PhD at Villa Arson, Nice, and divides her time between Athens and Lesbos. 

As a director, screenwriter and editor, she works on singular projects that oscillate between essay and fiction, in addition to collaborating on documentaries, mainly as a screenwriter and editor. Her works adopt meticulous aesthetics and innovative narrative structures, asserting themselves in a practice of fragmenting or dislocating the narrative. 

Voiceover narration plays a crucial role in her films, adopting new identities, languages and appearances from one film to the next. In a way, it embodies the ever-changing journey of migration, functioning almost as an autobiographical element. Through her work, Iva Radivojević explores the tension between the real and the imaginary, reflecting in a complex way on issues of migration, belonging and memory – questions deeply inf luenced by her personal experience. For the past fifteen years, she has been developing a radically independent cinematic approach with renewed rigour and originality.

Please find below the list of screenings below. You can also find more information here:

11/25 @ 7:15 PM - When The Phone Rang (2024)
11/26 @ 8:00 PM - Evaporating Borders (2014)
11/27 @  5:45 PM - All The Passes Through A Window That Doesn't Open (2017)
11/28 @ 8:45 PM - Shorts Program
11/29 @ 7:30 PM - Aleph (2021)
11/30 @ 5:30 PM - When The Phone Rang (2024)

Location: Cinémathèque québécoise, 335 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montréal, QC H2X 1K1.