THE OTHER SIDE OF EVERYTHING

Synopsis

A locked door inside a Belgrade apartment has kept one family separated from their past for over 70 years. As the filmmaker begins an intimate conversation with her mother, the political fault line running through their home reveals a house and a country haunted by history. The chronicle of a family in Serbia turns into a searing portrait of an activist in times of great turmoil, questioning the responsibility of each generation to fight for their future.

Director Biography

Mila Turajlić was born in Belgrade. She received her PhD in cinema from the University of Westminster and studied filmmaking at La Fémis. She has directed the short films La vie des morts (03), Neotihuacan (06), Fara Nume (09), and Passages (16), and the feature documentary Cinema Komunisto (10). The Other Side of Everything (17) is her latest documentary.