Born in Belgrade, Iva Radivojevic 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 Radivojevic explores the tension between the real and the imaginary, reflecting in a complex way on issues of migration, belonging and memory – questions deeply influenced by her personal experience. For the past fifteen years, she has been developing a radically independent cinematic approach with renewed rigour and originality.

 - Marlene Edoyan & Hubert Sabino-Brunette