Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to partner with Arizona State University to present “The Load” and “Depth Two” on Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6 at the Mary D. Fisher and Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatres. This event is part of the Sedona Film Festival’s ongoing commitment to celebrate cinematic arts.
The screenings of “The Load” and “Depth Two” are 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 Sedona Film Festival showcases innovative films, and these screenings are a testament to its vibrant cultural offerings.
Highlights of the Sedona Film Festival
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 Glavonić 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). This highlights the international reach of the Sedona Film Festival.
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.
DEPTH TWO
Sunday, April 6 at 1:00 p.m.
“Depth Two” premiered at the Berlinale (2016) and was then shown at festivals such as Open City (London), DOK.fest (Munich), Sarajevo Film Festival, and First Look (New York).
About the film: In 2001 a mass grave was discovered in a suburb of Belgrade. Soon there were more to come. “Depth Two” investigates the hidden story behind this horrid discovery and takes us back to 1999 and the NATO bombings in Serbia. Using the verbal testimonies of perpetrators and victims, “Depth Two” unfolds like a hypnotic thriller that visits the places where the crimes happened 17 years ago and follows the trail of this untold massacre, in an attempt to uncover and give a voice to the stories, that are still intentionally buried in silence.
Curatorial statement from Luiza Parvu and Toma Peiu:
We are excited to bring Ognjen Glavonić 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.
“The Load” will show at the Mary D. Fisher Theatre on Saturday, April 5 at 1:00 p.m. (with the filmmakers and Q&A). “Depth Two” will show at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre on Sunday, April 6 at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are $12 general admission and $9 for film festival members.
For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
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People haven’t a clue as to exactly how horrific war is. We have desensitized our culture with stupid chest thumping depictions of combat by steroidal draft dodging morons such as seen in the Rambo never ending series of fantastical nonsense! John Rambo never made it to Vietnam!
Todays conflicts are neighbor on neighbor, friend on friend, family on family affairs where nothing is safe or sacred. Everything and everyone are killed in their beds or dragged out into the streets and killed like rabid dogs. Attacks come from the air land and sea, man operated & manless aircraft, ships, vehicles, dogs and even drones made to emulate insects. There are NO safe havens, NO Laws of Warfare, NO off limits targets!
There are IED’s, Booby Traps, Pressure Sensitive Cluster Munitions, Thermite Spitting Drones, Hyperbaric Munitions, Hypersonic Cruise Missiles, Lasers, Chemicals, Biological and Nuclear (both dirty and weaponized) Weapons.
While there are a small handful of films that manage to capture some visual aspects of war, none have captured the true violence, putrid essences, deafening sounds and sheer scale of terror on the battlefield.
Good thing we have a bunch of incompetent buffoons running our war machine who like to chat about what our military is doing on unsecured platforms despite supposedly all being “combat veterans” with the exception of the Draft Dodger in Thief! Of course they were all Commissioned REMF Officers whose soldiers did their work for them but they still should most definitely have known better and should absolutely be charged with Dereliction of Duty, Improper use and storage of Classified Information, Unauthorized dissemination of Classified Information! Just like any other soldier in the military chain of command would and should be! Hopefully their sheer incompetence will continue and our adversaries (Dump Inc’s BFF’s) will just watch and laugh at us despite having the long term goal of crushing us!