Film Archive

International Competition 2022
Filmstill Ciné-Guerillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Mila Turajlić
Yugoslav cinematographer Stevan Labudović travelled to Algeria in 1959. His footage provided valuable assistance to independence from French colonial rule.
Filmstill Ciné-Guerillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels
Mila Turajlić
International Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia,
France
2022
94 minutes
Serbian,
French,
Arabic,
English
Subtitles: 
English

What do the Algerian war of liberation and Yugoslavia have in common? Stevan Labudović. In 1959, Tito himself sent his favourite cinematographer to Algeria. The resistance against the French colonial rule needed the eyes of the world, and the experienced partisan Labudović helped open them: His images gave the lie to the propaganda of the occupiers and their Western allies. This is a portrait of the man, the mission and the age – as film, ideological and personal history.

For three years, until the Democratic Republic of Algeria was proclaimed, Labudović put himself and his camera at the service of the people fighting for independence. Mila Turajlić found the newsreel footage shot at the time in the Filmske Novosti archive in Belgrade, got in touch with the aged pensioner and followed his trail. From a wealth of archive material, diary entries by and interviews with Labudović, with contemporary witnesses from Yugoslavia, Algeria and New York, where the young Maghreb state, like many other former colonies, struggled for admission to the United Nations, she distils the promising origins of an alliance that stood at the beginning of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was to oppose the dichotomy of the superpowers. Thus the bow to her compatriot also gains global political topicality.
Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Mila Turajlić
Editor
Sylvie Gadmer, Anne Renardet, Mila Turajlić
Producer
Carine Chichkowsky, Mila Turajlić
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Troy Herion
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize, Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Filmstill Cinema Komunisto
Cinema Komunisto
Mila Turajlić
Mila Turajlić’s acclaimed film debut mines the rich film history of the Tito era, preserved in archives, to narrate the foundation and self-assertion myths of Yugoslavia.
Filmstill Cinema Komunisto

Cinema Komunisto

Cinema Komunisto
Mila Turajlić
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia
2010
101 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

To the film enthusiast Marshall Tito, who had his own projection room and employed a full-time projectionist, cinema was also a means to consolidate socialist Yugoslavia. Filmmaker Mila Turajlić, on the other hand, raised in a state that was falling apart, draws on the wealth and glamour of Yugoslavian cinematography in her first long film to better understand her own history. In a clever montage of interviews and film clips, she tells stories of nation-building and images of a nation, but also of how the collapse of the film industry after Tito’s death heralded the collapse of her country.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Goran Kovacevic
Editor
Aleksandra Milovanovic
Producer
Dragan Pesikan
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Nemanja Morusovic
Filmstill Money and Happiness

Money and Happiness

Money and Happiness
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak
Competition for the Audience Award Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Serbia,
Slovenia,
Slovakia
2022
10 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
English

In Hamsterland, everybody is 100 percent happy. Their religion is statistics and the perfect employee is young, a team player and stress-resistant. Even the most mindless computer jobs and piece work drudgery are fun, without exception. Until one day something goes wrong after all and the mantras “think positive” and “follow your dreams” are temporarily silenced. An entertaining polemic on hyper capitalist, neoliberal societies that makes you smile.

Samuel Döring

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Director
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak
Cinematographer
Nikola Majdak
Editor
Milina Trisic
Producer
Jelena Mitrović
Co-Producer
Tina Smrekar, Peter Badac
Sound
Julij Zornik
Score
Dusan Petrovich
Animation
Ana Nedeljković, Nikola Majdak, Leon Vidmar
World Sales
Luce Grosjean
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Panorama Short Film 2022
Filmstill Mother’s Milk
Mother’s Milk
Isaac Knights-Washbourn
A rural life in western Serbia that demands the utmost from Dragica. Cows need to be milked, tomatoes harvested. The daily tasks leave almost no time to pause
Filmstill Mother’s Milk

Mother’s Milk

Majčino mleko
Isaac Knights-Washbourn
Panorama Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia
2022
18 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

Dragica does not lack for work. The house and cattle in western Serbia demand toil from dawn to dusk. She milks, harvests, prepares porridge for her handicapped daughter. Her own mother recently passed away. Now Dragica wears black and shaves her old father. Can there be an alternative to this daily self-sacrifice? Almost casually, Isaac Knights-Washbourn leaves space for such reflections: While chopping tomatoes, the woman opens up to a guest from town.

Carolin Weidner

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Director
Isaac Knights-Washbourn
Cinematographer
Antonio Pozojević
Editor
Ivana Pejak
Producer
Dejan Petrović, Nađa Lapčević
Sound
Eugene Pereiaslavtsev
Filmstill The Other Side of Everything

The Other Side of Everything

Druga strana svega
Mila Turajlić
Homage Mila Turajlić 2022
Documentary Film
Serbia,
France,
Qatar
2017
104 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

A door that has been closed for seventy years serves as a MacGuffin in Mila Turajlić’s double portrait of her mother and her mother country of Yugoslavia. That very door has divided the bourgeois family apartment ever since Tito’s communists assigned several rooms to proletarians in need of shelter. Srbijanka Turajlić never cared a fig for her neighbours. But when Serbian nationalists began to threaten the unity of her country, she turned into a fierce opponent of the Milošević regime. In a virtuoso montage of archive material and conversations with her mother, the filmmaker recaps the latter’s development while gaining a new perspective on the time of her own youth.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Mila Turajlić
Cinematographer
Mila Turajlić
Editor
Aleksandra Milovanovic, Sylvie Gadmer
Producer
Mila Turajlić, Carine Chichkowsky
Sound
Aleksandar Protić
Score
Jonathan Morali