Ivan and Ivana

Ivan and Ivana (2011)

After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple's homeland and their dreams for a normal life, they set out unexpectedly from the Balkans, along a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon burst, the film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent economic, political and personal tides, revealing a provocative and unorthodox depiction of the American immigrant experience.

Date of release
2011-03-08
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Documentary, Adventure, Drama
Director
Jeff Silva

Interesting facts

Ivan & Ivana is a documentary directed by Jeff Daniel Silva in 2011.

Production

The film was edited and partially shot at the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard while Silva was teaching the core Sensory Ethnography course with Lucien Castaing-Taylor from 2006 to 2009. Filming for the project began in 2000 in Kosovo, where Silva first met Ivan, whilst recording interviews for Balkan Rhapsodies: 78 Measures of War.

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