Wed, May 08
|Toldi Cinema
IVANA THE TERRIBLE
A RISING ACTOR RETURNS TO HER HOMETOWN TO RECOVER FROM A MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS, BUT RUMOURS ABOUT HER PERSONAL LIFE DISRUPT THE GETAWAY.
Time & Location
May 08, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Toldi Cinema, Budapest, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36–38, 1054 Hungary
About The Film
Ivana the Terrible | 8 May | 18:00 | Big Hall
Romania / Serbia, 2019, 86 mins
Drama, in Romanian with English and Hungarian subtitles
Ivana works as an actress in Romania, but after she is confronted with some health issues, she decides to spend the summer in her small Serbian hometown by the Danube, surrounded by family. She is asked by the mayor to be the image of the local music festival and she reluctantly accepts it. But after her eccentric friends arrive from Bucharest and her love life involving a much younger boyfriend becomes the town’s gossip, Ivana is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. The film is based on a true story. Original protagonists, friends and family were invited to relive the emotions and play themselves as fictional characters on camera in a story about a woman who cannot find her place on either side of the Danube.
Ivana Mladenović (*1984) – director
Ivana Mladenović studied Law in Belgrade and then moved to Romania where she studied film direction at the National School of Film and Theatre in Bucharest. Her films were shown and awarded at various film festivals around the world. Ivana the Terrible won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival and the Golden Pram at the Zagreb Film Festival.
Romanian Cultural Institute
The main objective of the Romanian Cultural Institute, a public body founded in 2003, is to raise the profile of important Romanian cultural works around the world. It tries to achieve this primarily by spreading information and carrying out cultural projects involving Romanian artists. At the same time, the Romanian Cultural Institute represents a channel of communication between Romanian cultural products and foreign audiences.