Lights On has taken international sales rights for “When the Phone Rang” and has released the film’s trailer (below) ahead of its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on Aug. 12.
The film is written and directed by Iva Radivojević, and is based on Radivojević’s personal experience of leaving the crisis-stricken Yugoslavia of the 1990s.
Through a reconstruction of an important phone call, the film “addresses the nature of remembering and dislocation,” according to a press statement. In Lana’s 11-year-old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity.
The phone call as a recurring event in the story brings together a series of recollections, which are assembled to build a larger story. Each memory is called forth by a phone call. Thus, the film is divided into eleven events, and eleven phone calls. Each event begins with a phone ringing and ends with the packing of suitcases and departure.
The film is written and directed by Iva Radivojević, and is based on Radivojević’s personal experience of leaving the crisis-stricken Yugoslavia of the 1990s.
Through a reconstruction of an important phone call, the film “addresses the nature of remembering and dislocation,” according to a press statement. In Lana’s 11-year-old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity.
The phone call as a recurring event in the story brings together a series of recollections, which are assembled to build a larger story. Each memory is called forth by a phone call. Thus, the film is divided into eleven events, and eleven phone calls. Each event begins with a phone ringing and ends with the packing of suitcases and departure.
- 7/22/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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