Beast International Film Festival 06 — 08 JUN 2025

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When the Phone Rang

SYNOPSIS

SINOPSE

Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When The Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist’s eleven year old mind the phone call erases her entire country, history and identity.

BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAFIA

Iva Radivojevic was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprus and eventually NYC. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time be-tween Athens and Lesbos. Iva's films have screened at the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, Rotterdam IFF, CPH:DOX, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festi-val, DocLisboa, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art and were commissioned by ARTE La Lucarne and Field of Vision. She is the recipient of the Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, Guggenheim Fellowship, Jerome Fellowship, NYFA Fellowship, Princess Grace Special Project Award and Film Fellow-ship. Avenue of The Living, her new art book was recently published by Big Black Mountain Press. She’s a PhD candidate at Villa Arson in Nice.

Opening Film
In (E)motion

Iva Radivojević

Serbia, USA

2024

FIC.

73'

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