07 Jun CINÉ-GUERRILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS

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CINÉ-GUERRILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS
France, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Qatar / 2022 / 94′

DIRECTED BY: Mila Turajlić
SCREENPLAY BY: Mila Turajlić
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Mila Turajlić
EDITED BY: Sylvie Gadmer, Anne Renardet, Mila Turajlić
MUSIC: Troy Herion
PRODUCERS: Mila Turajlić, Carine Chichkowsky, Vanja Jambrović, Tibor Keser, Vuk Perović
PRODUCED BY: Poppy Pictures, Survivance, Kino, Restart
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: Toronto IFF (2022), DOK Leipzig (2022), IDFA (2022), Festival autorskog filma Beograd (2022), Festival International du Cinéma D’Alger (2022), Trieste FF (2023), Dublin IFF (2023)

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels is a documentary feature-length film that take us on an archival road trip through the birth of the Third World project, based on unseen 35mm materials filmed by Stevan Labudović, the cameraman of Yugoslav President Tito. Ciné-Guerrillas plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for independence where cinema was mobilized as a weapon of political struggle against colonialism. Together with Non-Aligned, the film forms a documentary diptych.

Mila Turajlić was born in 1979 in Belgrade, Serbia. She studied Politics and International Relations and Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, and Film and TV Production at the national lm school in Belgrade. She has directed short films La vie des Morts (2003), Neotihuacan (2006), Fara Nume (2009), and Passages (16). The feature documentary Cinema Komunisto (2010) won her 16 awards. Her film The Other Side of Everything, (2017) won 32 awards including the IDFA Award for Best Documentary Film.