Festival Predictions

2021 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: Iva Radivojevic’s Aleph

Published on November 13, 2020

Covering the limits of this planet a la Herzog, celebrated filmmaker Iva Radivojevic has been working on this multi-character multi-storied docu project for half a decade now. Alpeh has benefitted from support funds from the top organizations including Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program and she was the recipient of the 2017 Sundance Art of Non Fiction Fellowship. Supported by Cinereach, this could easily land at fests such as Rotterdam or Locarno.

Gist: Aleph is a mysterious point (an opening) suspended in space and time that contains the entire universe. It’s hidden in a splintered labyrinth where ten characters play a game of magic. Their collected thoughts serve as pieces of a puzzle that connect the labyrinth and lead to Aleph.

Production Co./Producers: Iva Radivojevic, Madeleine Molyneaux, Vilka Alfier.

Prediction: WORLD CINEMA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available.

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).