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Mila Turajlić born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist whose documentary practice extends across film, video installation, mixed media and live performance, drawing on oral histories and film archives to confront the disappearing narratives of history. Her films include include CINEMA KOMUNISTO, IDFA-winner THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING and most-recently the documentary diptych NON-ALIGNED & CINÉ-GUERRILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, described by The New York Times as ‘a visually arresting inquiry into what it takes to envision a new world’. Works from her long-term artistic research project NONALIGNED NEWSREELS were curated for international exhibitions (MoMA, Cité Internationale des Arts) and biennials (Berlin’22, Belgrade’22, Sharjah’25), Her live documentary performance has recently become a production of the Theatre Nationale de Bretagne and will be touring in 2025-2027, including a 6-night run at the Theatre de la Bastille in Paris in April 2026. In 2020 Mila was invited to join the AMPAS (Oscars) Documentary Branch. She was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2022.

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Mila Turajlić

Mila Turajlić born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist whose documentary practice extends across film, video installation, mixed media and live performance, drawing on oral histories and film archives to confront the disappearing narratives of history. Her films include include CINEMA KOMUNISTO, IDFA-winner THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING and most-recently the documentary diptych NON-ALIGNED & CINÉ-GUERRILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, described by The New York Times as ‘a visually arresting inquiry into what it takes to envision a new world’. Works from her long-term artistic research project NONALIGNED NEWSREELS were curated for international exhibitions (MoMA, Cité Internationale des Arts) and biennials (Berlin’22, Belgrade’22, Sharjah’25), Her live documentary performance has recently become a production of the Theatre Nationale de Bretagne and will be touring in 2025-2027, including a 6-night run at the Theatre de la Bastille in Paris in April 2026. In 2020 Mila was invited to join the AMPAS (Oscars) Documentary Branch. She was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 2022.