Evaporating Borders. 2014. USA/Cyprus. Directed by Iva Radivojevic. 73 min.
A poetic essay in five parts, Evaporating Borders explores issues of migration as experienced by asylum seekers in Cyprus. This feature debut from Iva Radivojevic, who left her native Yugoslavia for Cyprus during the unrest of the 1990s, brings to life its tenuous contradictions: a gateway to Europe that remains a breeding ground for discrimination and xenophobia; a bitterly divided island in the idyllic Mediterranean. Radivojevic's graceful meditation on national identity, diaspora, and exile serves as an alarming document of the plight of migrants on the island and beyond.