Rotations is thrilled to welcome back filmmaker Iva Radivojevic for the two-night Los Angeles premiere of her new film, When the Phone Rang (Kada je zazvonio telefon), made in the filmmaker’s native Serbia. Through an intimate reconstruction of an important phone call, When the Phone Rang investigates dislocation and the nature of remembering. In the protagonist’s 11-year-old mind, this phone call erases her entire country, history, and identity and hides its existence in books, films, and memories of those born before 1995.

“If we consider one of the aims of war to be the destruction of memory, eradicating culture’s memory and collective existence, then these private, unwritten accounts act as counter-memory, surviving despite the attempts of erasure and preserving narratives outside of national and nationalistic (authoritative) agendas.” —Iva Radivojevic

About the filmmakers

Director, writer, editor, music: Iva Radivojevic

Producers: Andrijana Sofranis Sucur, Marija Stojnic, Madeleine Molyneaux, Iva Radivojevic
Co-producer: Genoveva Petrovits​
Cinematographer: Martin DiCicco

Sound Design & Mix: Leandros Ntounis (I Heard Voices - Athens, Greece)
Camera Assistant and Loader: Bojan Durisic
Gaffer: Viktor Minic

16mm Film Lab Processing NFI
Sound Recordist Bojan Palikuca

Color Dimitris Karteris - Athens, Greece
Mastering / DCP Chris Karteris - Athens, Greece
Cast: Natalija Ilinčic, Srna Vasic, Vasilije Zečevic, Danica Maksimovic, Anton Augustinov, Mila Drobnjak, Dunja Vladisavljevic, Ivana Pančic, Ibro Sakic, Slavica Bajčeta

With thanks to Madeleine Molyneaux and Picture Palace Pictures, Ivaasks Films, Set Sail Films, Lights On, and California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video.