Ivana Mladenović

Directing

Ivana Mladenović

Born November 30, 1983 · Kladovo, Yugoslavia [now Serbia] (age 42)

Ivana Mladenovic was born in Kladovo, Serbia. She moved to Bucharest to study film directing at UNATC I.L. Caragiale and graduated with a master's in 2011.

Known For

Dracula: The Original Living VampireDracula: The Original Living Vampire · 2022
Dracula: The Original Living Vampire
5.12022
MovieHorrorFantasy
Detective Amelia Van Helsing is on the desperate hunt for the killer responsible for a string of grisly murders targeting young women. Matters only worsen when all evidence leads to the seemingly untouchable Count Dracula. And when Van Helsing’s girlfriend vanishes, she is forced to question the very existence of monsters in a final showdown with the enigmatic count.
The Man from BagomboThe Man from Bagombo · 2010
The Man from Bagombo
2010
MovieDrama
Sitting in a bar, Petar Lard decides to ring up his former sweetheart.
Scarred HeartsScarred Hearts · 2016
Scarred Hearts
6.52016
MovieDrama
During the summer of 1937, Emanuel, a young man in his early twenties, is committed to a sanatorium on the Black Sea coast for treatment of his bone tuberculosis. The treatment consists of painful spine punctures that confine him to a plaster on a stretcher-bed. Little by little, as Emanuel gets accustomed to the sadness of his new life, he discovers that inside the sanatorium there is still a life to be lived to the fullest.
Cloistered SisterCloistered Sister · 2025
Cloistered Sister
6.02025
MovieDramaComedy
36-year-old Stela has higher education but unable to keep a job. Since she was 12, she's been in love with a Serbian musician from the former Yugoslavia. One of the musician's alleged mistresses promises Stela that she will help her meet her idol.
Soldiers. Story from FerentariSoldiers. Story from Ferentari · 2018
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari
5.82018
MovieDrama
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.
Ivana the TerribleIvana the Terrible · 2020
Ivana the Terrible
6.22020
MovieDrama
It's based on the story of a crisis that took place in the summer of 2017 in the life of Mladenovic, a Serbian-born director living in Romania.
The Pocket-WatchThe Pocket-Watch · 2005
The Pocket-Watch
2005
MovieHorrorScience Fiction
Anything can happen when a watch stops and a movie cuts.
SkinSkin · 2010
Skin
2010
MovieDrama
The day Alex gets out of prison, he's greeted by his girlfriend and best friend. But things aren't the same as they were when he got there.

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Soldiers. Story from FerentariSoldiers. Story from Ferentari · 2018
Soldiers. Story from Ferentari
5.82018
MovieDrama
Adi (40), a shy and introverted anthropologist who got recently dumped by his girlfriend, moves to Ferentari, most notorious outcasted neighborhood in Bucharest. He wants to write a study on manele music. The pop music of the Roma community serves as a way out for some, but mostly as one more means for the mafia pimps to make money off their acts and keep them in slave-like dependency. While researching his subject, Adi meets Alberto, a Roma ex-convict and a bear of a man, who promises Adi to help him. Soon, the unlikely pair begins a playful romance in which Adi feeds Alberto with improbable plans of escaping poverty and Alberto reciprocates with well-concocted phrases of love. Little by little their casual affair grows into love. And the funny and sweet teasing turns into something precarious, since Alberto is both dangerous and fragile and belongs to a world whose codes Adi doesn't understand.

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