When The Phone Rang

Asian Premiere

Iva Radivojević Serbia, USA 2024 73 min NC16 (Some Drug Use)

On a Friday in 1992, eleven-year-old Lana answers a call that shatters her carefree world, shaping the memories of her formative years.

Recollection of childhood often unfolds in fragmented and nonlinear ways: dislocated thoughts and feelings weave into a patchwork of innocence and uncertainty. When The Phone Rang encapsulates this, intertwining the fog of adolescent amnesia with the deep-seated trauma of a family’s forced migration, alongside the collective forgetting that shadows the aftermath of war.

Through analogue memorabilia—clocks, landline phones, VCRs and cassette tapes—the film conjures the fragile 1990s, where these material objects evoke a past that is distant yet seemingly within reach, lingering on the edge of memory. Emotionally visceral and intellectually reflective, the film transforms remembering into a sensory encounter with cinematic time.

2 Dec, Mon 9:00PM / 73 min

Golden Village Cineleisure, Hall 2

5 Dec, Thu 5:00PM / 73 min

Oldham Theatre

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When The Phone Rang

Kada je zazvonio telefon

Iva Radivojević

Serbia, USA

2024

Serbian, English

English

73 min

NC16 (Some Drug Use)

Asian Premiere

Iva Radivojević

Belgrade-born Iva Radivojević crafts films on identity, migration and belonging. Her work collages diverse elements, linking to the metaphysical, such as her debut Aleph (2021), which intertwines ten characters’ visions. When the Phone Rang premiered at Locarno where it garnered a Special Mention.

Andrijana Sofranis Sucur,
Marija Stojnić,
Madeleine Molyneaux,
Iva Radivojević

Natalija Ilinčić,
Srna Vasić,
Vasilije Zečević

Related Topics

  • Coming of Age
  • Cultural Diaspora
  • History
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