Skopje, 15 February 2024 (MIA) — Serbian filmmaker Mila Turajlić's documentary diptych "Non-Aligned" (2022) and "Ciné-Guerrillas" (2022) will be screened at Salon 19:19 at 8 pm.

According to organizers, the two feature-length films take the audience 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 Josip Broz Tito.

"Non-Aligned" re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned movement, examining how a global project of political emancipation was constituted by the cinematic image.

"Ciné-Guerrillas" dives 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.

The documentaries have been shown at numerous international festivals, including Trieste Film Festival, Zagreb Dox, Dublin Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Festival International du Cinéma d'Alger, and Uruguay International Film Festival.

Mila Turajlić is an award-winning director born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her film "The Other Side of Everything" (2017), HBO Europe’s first co-production with Serbia, won 32 awards including the IDFA Award for Best Documentary Film.

Her debut feature doc, "Cinema Komunisto" (2011) played at over 100 festivals and won 16 awards including the FOCAL Award for Creative Use of Archival Footage. In 2020, she was invited to join the AMPAS (Oscars) Documentary Branch. mr/