The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Arizona State University to present “The Load” on Saturday, April 5 at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre.
The screening of “The Load” is organized in conjunction with Genocide Awareness Week at Arizona State University, and the Kino Nights series of screenings and conversations at ASU's Melikian Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, programmed by Luiza Parvu and Toma Peiu.
THE LOAD
Saturday, April 5 at 1:00 p.m.
The screening of “The Load” on Saturday, April 5, will be followed by a conversation with director Ognjen Glavonic and cinematographer Tatjana Krstevski. “The Load” (2018) premiered to rave reviews in the Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and was subsequently screened in dozens of film festivals, including Toronto, Rotterdam and New Directors/New Films (New York).
About the film: During NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission. Brilliantly photographed and intoxicatingly intimate, “The Load” signals the arrival of a major talent.
Curatorial statement from Luiza Parvu and Toma Peiu:
We are excited to bring Ognjen Glavonic and Tatjana Krstevski to Sedona, considering the unique programming of Sedona Film Festival Theaters. This season, our series Kino Nights is devoted to unconventional approaches to the representations of violence, trauma and genocide in recent East European and Eurasian cinema. Leaving behind sensational or depressing renditions, or the re-traumatizing of survivors, how can we use cinema to understand important historical events through the traces and scars they leave in the lives of everyday people, their homes and public places? The filmmakers we are featuring show us distinct, thoughtful approaches to cinema as a medium for collective debate and reckoning. This topic resonates deeply in our complicated historical moment. and we are glad that audiences in Sedona can now participate in this conversation, on how film artists can reveal our world anew.