Sceneggiatura, fotografia / Screenplay, Photography: Mila Turajlić Montaggio / Editing: Sylvie Gadmer, Aleksandra Milovanović Musica / Music: Jonathan Morali Suono / Sound: Aleksandar Protić Produzione, distribuzione internazionale / Produced by, World Sales: Dribbling Pictures Coproduzione / Co-produced by: Survivance, HBO Europe In associazione con / In association with: Arte-WDR Con il sostegno di / Supported by: Serbian Film Center, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Eurimages, Doha Film Institute Best documentary at IDFA in Amsterdam, the film was also in competition at the Trieste FF in 2018.
“The backbone of the film are my conversations with my mother … It is a dialogue between a mother and daughter, but at the same time between two adults, each at a different stage in her life. My mother, a professor of electrical engineering, became a public figure as a critical voice against the regime of Milošević during the civil wars of the 1990s. She was an active member of the Resistance movement, and was fired from Belgrade University for her outspokenness … The apartment becomes a character in its own right, as the political invades this personal space. My great-grandfather built the building we live in in the 1920s, when he was the Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. In the aftermath of the Second World War the communists nationalised the house. They divided our apartment into living space for 4 families, and locked a set of doors in the living room. 70 years later, those doors remain locked, making my childhood home a veritable political front line, literally marking the divisions of Serbia.” (M. Turajlić)
Mila Turajlić Mila Turajlić is an award-winning director and producer born in 1979 in Belgrade. In 2011, the Trieste FF presented her Cinema Komunisto, which was awarded Best Documentary. Her film The Other Side of Everything was HBO Europe’s first co-production with Serbia, and won more than 30 awards. All of her films were presented at the Trieste FF. 2010 Cinema Komunisto doc.; Premi / Awards: Trieste FF – Miglior Documentario / Best Documentary 2017 Druga strana svega (The Other Side of Everything) doc.; Premi / Awards: Premio LUX del Parlamento Europeo / LUX Prize of European Parliament; IDFA, Amsterdam – Miglior documentario / Best Feature-Length Documentary; ZagrebDox – Premio FIPRESCI, Premio del pubblico / FIPRESCI Award, Audience Award 2022 Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels doc.; Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels doc.
