Not a single frame of violence exists in Serbian filmmaker Iva Radivojevic’s film When the Phone Rang, although it is set in the context of war and the erasure of a country. The film screened in the Female Gaze section on the opening day of the 29th International Film Festival of Kerala begins from a phone call, attended by young …
Before dawn, 78-year-old Vukosava Radivojevic prepared breakfast for her husband and then walked to guard a barricade in her village in eastern Serbia to stop trucks from entering an open-pit copper mine that residents say is contaminating the land and water. Radivojevic is among two dozen women who, since January, have taken shifts by day and night on a small …
