Evaporating Borders iscontinuing to tour the world on the festival circuit, with 8 screenings in November alone and more coming up.
Evaporating Borders also recently won the RTP Award For Best Investigation Film at DocLisboa 2014, the Best Balkan Documentary Award at DokuFest in Prizren, Coup De Coeur Du Jury at FIFIG.
It was nominated by the IDA - International Documentary Awards for the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award and also for the Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight Award.
We spoke to The Prisma in the UK about the film and the state of refugees in Europe in this great interview and next I'm heading to RIDM in Montreal to present the film and also speak on a panel Occupational Hazards of Documentary Filmmaking together with Hubert Sauper and Patricio Henriquez and give a workshop at the Doc Lab.
In the meantime :::
A new short film is in the works, to be completed by the end of January and I'm super excited about a new feature length hybrid film that I'm developing, called The Aleph, inspired by a short story of the same name by Jorge Luis Borges.
Evaporating Borders was completed in January and premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The film was part of the State of Europe section at the festival along with films like Gianfranco Rossi's Sacro Gra and Kaveh Bakhtiari's L'escale. Other gems at the festival included Ilya Khrzhanovsky's 4, Ben Russell and Ben River's Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (premiering at ND/NF), Ester Martin Bergsmark's Something Must Break which won the Tiger, Roberto Minervini's Stop The Pounding Heart (ND/NF), Riad Sattouf's Jacky Au Royaume des Filles and Vimukthi Jayasundara's The Forsaken Land.
I joined filmmakers Xiaolu Guo and Thomas Bellinck, as well as Rutger Wolfson on a panel to talk about the State of Europe + a lovely review of Evaporating Borders by The Hollywood Reporter in which Clarence Tsui calls the film "Thoughtful and lyrical...Radivojevic’s film is a valiant call for a new way of thinking".
In Rotterdam, we found out the film would have a US premiere at SXSW Film Festival. The film premiered to a full house and received rave reviews.
Film Threat wrote, possibly the best review one could have hoped for, humbling... "Aesthetically, I’ve never seen such magnificent cinematography in a documentary...Equally impressive is Radivojevic’s skill in driving her message home...Evaporating Borders is a must-see movie and its filmmaker is a highly sensitive rarity, with the great ability to open our eyes and change the world."
Nonfics listed Evaporating Borders as one of the Top 5 documentaries at 2014 SXSW Film Festival. Hammer To Nail's Mike S. Ryan and Jesse Klein selected it as their "Best of SXSW" picks.
Austin Chronicle described the film as "poetic, stream-of-consciousness narration enhances the beautiful visual essay; its structure – five chapters – serves to efficiently organize a complicated story of shifting borders and cultural paradigms" and Cineuropa wrote “through its five chapters full of gentle, honest and simple images, Radivojevic’s story manages to transcend the most thoughtful, and even the most lyrical, aspect of a subject that does not usually have room to accommodate delicacy of any kind."
The next festival that followed was Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival. Other films in the program included Michael Obert's beautiful Song From The Forest and Talal Derki's Return to Homs, a powerful film.
The audiences in Thessaloniki asked brilliant questions and engaged with the film in the most interesting and intimate way. The kind of discussion that feels organic and productive and enriching. Analytical. A beautiful experience.
A few interviews took place in between, Reelscreen, IndieWire, Filmmaker Mag's Women of SXSW, Sarah Salovaara's 5 Questions.
