When the Phone Rang

Director Iva Radivojevic in person

SHOWCASE SCREENING

Dir. Iva Radivojevic. 2024, 73 mins. Serbia/U.S. DCP. In English and Serbian with English subtitles. With Natalija Ilincic, Anton Augustinov, Slavica Bajceta, Danica Maksimovic, Dunja Vladisavljevic, Mila Drobnjak, Vasilije Zecevic, Srna Vasic. On a Friday morning in 1992, eleven-year-old Lana (Ilincic) receives a phone call informing her about a death in the family. It’s a call that forever cleaves her life into a Before and an After, amplified by and in sync with the fracturing of her country—of Yugoslavian history and identity. Inspired by her own childhood memories, filmmaker Radivojevic loops back to that fateful moment as a conjuring and incantation, and with the assistance of DP Martin DiCicco’s evocative 16mm photography, making tantalizingly tangible what’s forever lost. Winner, Special Mention, Filmmakers of the Present at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival. U.S. premiere 

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About the filmmaker:

Iva Radivojevic spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprus, and eventually NYC. An artist and filmmaker who divides her time between Athens and Lesbos, Iva has screened works at NYFF, ND/NF, IFFR, CPH:DOX, Berwick, MoMA, Thessaloniki Biennale, on ARTE  & commissioned by Field of Vision. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Jerome, NYFA, Sundance Art of Non-Fiction, and Princess Grace. Her art book Avenue of the Living was recently published by Big Black Mountain Press.