Fresh off its world premiere in competition at the Locarno Film Festival, Romania-based Serbian director Ivana Mladenović’s riotous fourth feature, “Sorella di Clausura,” arrives at the Sarajevo Film Festival, where it will be competing for top honors at the long-running Bosnian fest.
The director’s latest, which she describes as an “empathetic parody of romantic melodramas,” stars a fearless Katia Pascariu (“Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn”) as Stela, a prickly, cynical, love-sick anti-heroine hell-bent on meeting the object of her obsession: the aging Balkan pop star Boban, played by the director’s father, Miodrag Mladenović.
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