Ivana the Terrible

Ivana, a Bucharest-based actress facing emotional distress, decides to spend summer holidays in her native town, situated in the opposite bank of the Danube. Already on the verge of a nervous breakdown, she is about to dive into troubled waters, when accepting an unexpected offer to become the central figure at a local festival. As her love life becomes the small community’s top-gossip, Ivana is driven way past her breaking point, experiencing estrangement and alienation in both sides of the borderline. A re-enactment of a real-life personal crisis suffered by director Ivana Mladenović, which contemplates on the disheartening gap between expectations and reality.