CLOISTERED SISTER / SORELLA DI CLAUSURA / СЕСТРА-САМІТНИЦЯ

6 days ago
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2026 / 106' / feature / Romania, Serbia, Italy, Spain

If you wish for something hard enough, the whole Universe will work in your favor, right?

Stela, educated but unable to hold down a job, fell in love with a famous Balkan musician after seeing him on TV. This passion transformed into obsession is taking over her life and now she must meet him. One of the musician’s supposed mistresses, Vera, a starlet-musician, promises to help Stela meet her idol and, even more, to take her away from her poverty-stricken rural life. Their two worlds collide when Vera brings Stela to Bucharest, where she runs a company that sells sexual products and lubricants.

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DIRECTOR - IVANA MLADENOVIĆ

Biography

Ivana Mladenović is a Serbian-Romanian film director born in 1984 in Kladovo, Serbia. After studying law in Belgrade, she moved to Romania to study film directing at UNATC in Bucharest. Her debut documentary, Turn Off the Lights (2012), premiered at Tribeca and won the Heart of Sarajevo and Romanian National Gopo Awards, explored the lives of three young ex convicts just released from prison. Her first feature, Soldiers. Story from Ferentari (2017), co-written and based on an autobiographical novel by Adrian Schiop, in which he also plays himself, explores the relationship between an anthropologist and a former inmate in a marginalized Roma community. It premiered in Toronto and San Sebastián and screened at over 50 festivals. In Ivana the Terrible (2019), she turned the camera on herself in a humorous, autofictional portrait shot in her hometown of Kladovo, starring her family and friends. The film premiered in Locarno where it won Cine+ Jury Award, later screening at numerous festivals across Europe and beyond.

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