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Director

Mila Turajlic

Mila Turajlić (director/producer) is an award-winning director from Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her films have screened at numerous festivals and been released theatrically in Europe and North America. Her film The Other Side of Everything (2017), won 32 awards including the IDFA Award for Best Documentary. Mila’s debut feature doc, Cinema Komunisto (2011) played at over 100 festivals and won 16 awards. Her research-based artistic practice ranges from video installations commissioned by MoMA New York to live documentary performances. Her most recent project, the documentary diptych Ciné-Guerrillas and Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudovic Reels, an archival road trip through the cinematic birth of the Third Word, premiered in the autumn 2020.

NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS(2022)

Silver (2022)

Feature Documentary Competition, Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbian, English, French, Arabic - 100 min

Director

Mila Turajlic

Serbia, France, Croatia, Montenegro | 2022 | 100 min | Serbian, English, French, Arabic

Producer Mila Turajlic, Carine Chichkowsky
Production Company Poppy Pictures, Survivance
Screenplay Mila Turajlic
Cinematography Mila Turajlic
Editing Sylvie Gadmer, Céline Ducreux, Mila Turajlic
Sound Aleksandar Protić
Cast
Contacts
Poppy Pictures, nonaligned.newsreels@gmail.com

About the Film

The dissolution of Yugoslavia was a dramatic change that has already taken place. Yet, a fundamental question remains: can history and memory accept the complete erasure of the past? From this question, the film's director, Mila Turajlić, sets out to explore a political era in which her country's leader, Josip Broz Tito, played a pivotal role in the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement in the early 1960s.

The Non-Aligned Movement, in turn, represented a middle ground between the socialist and capitalist blocs, and was also a strong supporter of national liberation movements around the world.

Fortunately, photographer Stefan Labudović is still alive. He is not only a witness to that era, but also one of its most important chroniclers. He worked for the Photo News magazine for long periods of his professional life, and the Serbian state archive holds many of his photographs. The time and trajectory of Mila Turajlić's cinematic work, which seeks an answer to its central question, are distributed through her remaining with her father and recovering a part of his vast photographic legacy. She does not seek an answer through political analysis, but through the recovery of a visual memory that she reconstructs and embodies cinematically in a striking style that is both beautiful and intensely condensed.

In all his travels and meetings, Tito was accompanied by his photographer Labudović who

remained by his side. Despite the propaganda nature of his work, he was originally deeply convinced of the principles of justice and support for oppressed peoples in their struggle. This made him a hero in the eyes of the Algerians, whom he accompanied and documented their liberation struggle against the French colonizer. He did not seek fame from his work, so he remained in the shadows, saddened by the end of a state that witnessed moments of its political glory that as it fell apart and dissolved into states.

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NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS (2022)

Silver (2022)

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Director

Mila Turajlic

NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIC REELS(2022)

Silver (2022)

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