Iva Radivojevic’s 1992-Set Forced Migration Story ‘When the Phone Rang’ is as Relevant Today as Ever: ‘This Kind of Displacement is Happening Everywhere’

On a Friday at 10:36 a.m. in 1992, 11-year-old Lana picks up a phone call whose effects reverberate through her life. So goes the hypnotic refrain that loops through Iva Radivojević’s second narrative feature, “When the Phone Rang” (2024), presented in the Locarno Film Festival’s Concorso Cineasti del Presente section.  And a self-hypnosis it is; […]