Movies by Mila Turajlić

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Ciné-Guerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

An archival road trip with Stevan Labudović, cameraman to Yugoslav President Tito and cinematic eye of the Algerian revolution, investigating the role of cinema in the liberation struggles of the Third World and reconstructing the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement.

Cinema Komunisto

Cinema Komunisto

This eye-opening and bittersweet chronicle of the Yugoslavian film industry recounts how the cinema was used—often with direct intervention from President Josip Broz Tito—to create and recreate the young nation’s history, replete with heroes and myths that didn’t always hew closely to reality.

We Build the Country - The Country Builds Us!

We Build the Country - The Country Builds Us!

Three-channel video (black and white and color, three-channel sound) commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, for the entrance to exhibition "Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980".

The Other Side of Everything

The Other Side of Everything

For Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlic, a locked door in her mother's apartment in Belgrade provides the gateway to both her remarkable family history and her country's tumultuous political inheritance.