Ivana Mladenovic

Ivana MLADENOVIC (1984, Serbia) studied Law in Belgrade and then moved to Romania where she studied film directing at the National School of Film and Theatre (UNATC) in Bucharest, receiving both her BA and MA. Her short student films were shown and awarded at various film festivals around the world. In 2012, Mladenovic’s first feature-length documentary Turn Off the Lights premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won the Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Documentary and Gopo Award for Best Romanian Documentary. In 2016, she made her debut as an actress in Radu Jude’s Scarred Hearts. Her feature film debut Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2017) premiered in Toronto and won Premio Sebastiane in San Sebastian, while her second feature Ivana the Terrible (2019) won the Special Jury Prize in Locarno. The films went through a strong festival circuit from Busan to Copenhagen, Los Angeles to Zagreb, and Trieste to Minsk.

Filmography

Milky Way (2007, short doc), Pizza Love (2008, short), Afterparty (2009, short), Skin (2010, short), Turn Off the Lights (2012, doc), If 6 Was 9 (2013, short doc), Soldatii. Poveste din Ferentari/Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2017), Ivana the Terrible (2019)