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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.
Original Release
03/11/2014
US Release
03/11/2014
Cast
Name | Character |
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Iva Radivojevic | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Iva Radivojevic | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Laura Poitras | Executive Producer |
Iva Radivojevic | Producer |
Alex Primas | Producer |
Leandros Savvides | Producer |
Landon Van Soest | Producer |