The Other Side of Everything
Spring Grant 2014 - Production Stage
Mila Turajlic / Feature Documentary / Serbia, France, Qatar / 2017 / 100 min / Colour and B&W / Original Language: Serbian
Synopsis
A door locked for 70 years in a house haunted by history. The story of an apartment in Belgrade turns a family chronicle into a portrait of a country in political turmoil. As the filmmaker seeks answers from her activist mother, their intimate conversation questions the responsibility of each generation to fight for their future.
Credits
- Director
- Mila Turajlic
- Screenwriter
- Mila Turajlic
- Producer
- Carine Chichkowsky
- Executive Producer
- Iva Plemic Divjak
- Production Company
- Dribbling Pictures
About the Director
Mila Turajlic’s first feature-length documentary, ‘Cinema Komunisto’, premiered at IDFA in 2010, and won 16 awards, including the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Film Festival. After studying Political Science and Media at the London School of Economics and film production in Serbia, Turajlic specialised in documentary filmmaking at La Fémis in Paris. She gained industry experience working on fictions films including Mel Gibson’s ‘Apocalypto’ and Rian Johnson’s ‘The Brothers Bloom’ before starting to direct and produce documentaries through her own production company, Dribbling Pictures. Turajlic is a producer of the Magnificent 7 Festival of feature documentaries in Belgrade, which she helped found in 2005.
Awards and Festival History
Festivals
TIFF 2017, DOCS (WP)
Contacts
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Co-Producer
HBO Europe