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The continuous loop with which Iva Radivojević constructs her film is a metaphor for the continuous loop of memories in the mind. What was this moment when the trauma broke through? In this case, that Friday morning at 10:36 a.m. A moment that keeps coming back. After that, everything happened pretty quickly, home dissolved. Radivojević remembers her own trauma and knows that she is not alone in this. That's why the country that is lost here is called "the country that no longer exists". The director on the timing of making her film:

„After leaving Yugoslavia, I grew up in Cyprus. Then, I lived in the U.S. for a long time before returning to Greece. Something about returning to the culture I grew up in triggered something. You get so busy surviving that you don’t have the time to address your trauma, and at some point, it comes up and wants to talk to you. It felt like the right moment for it, especially with the mass dislocation happening all over the world." Quote

Radivojević finds a thoughtful, almost meditative tone for her film. The omnipresent threat and the lifelong memory of what we succinctly refer to as the ‘loss of home’ fills the cinema screen: in hushed tones, torn and omnipresent.

Text: Bernd Buder

08.11.2024 | 10:30 | Weltspiegel Saal 2 (original version with English and German subtitles)

09.11.2024 | 15:30 | Weltspiegel Großer Saal (original version with English and German subtitles)