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The Harriman Institute is pleased to cosponsor First Look 2025, the Museum of the Moving Image’s acclaimed festival of innovative new international cinema. Please join us for the US premiere of Iva Radivojevic’s film “When the Phone Rang” (Serbia/US, 2024).

On a Friday morning in 1992, eleven-year-old Lana (Ilincic) receives a phone call informing her about a death in the family. It’s a call that forever cleaves her life into a Before and an After, amplified by and in sync with the fracturing of her country—of Yugoslavian history and identity. Inspired by her own childhood memories, filmmaker Radivojevic loops back to that fateful moment as a conjuring and incantation, and with the assistance of DP Martin DiCicco’s evocative 16mm photography, making tantalizingly tangible what’s forever lost. Winner, Special Mention, Filmmakers of the Present at the 2024 Locarno Film Festival. U.S. premiere

With Natalija Ilincic, Anton Augustinov, Slavica Bajceta, Danica Maksimovic, Dunja Vladisavljevic, Mila Drobnjak, Vasilije Zecevic, Srna Vasic.

In English and Serbian with English subtitles.

Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.

Use code harriman20 at checkout for a discount on this event or on an All Festival Pass.