For 70 years, a locked door split one family’s Belgrade apartment in two. Yugoslavia’s communist government took half the apartment and moved strangers into it.
Trailer for “The Other Side of Everything”
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- Srbijanka Turajlić was fired from her university job in the 1990s after she refused to sign a loyalty pledge under Serbian leader Slobodan Milošević.
- During filming, a longtime tenant on the other side dies. The locked doors finally open, giving the Turajlić family back rooms they hadn’t entered in decades.
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Ratings:
- My Rating: 90/100
- IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
- Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83/100 (Users); 92/100 (Critics)
Director’s Note: Mila Turajlić directed “The Other Side of Everything.” This is about as personal as documentary filmmaking gets. Mila directed it, wrote it and shot it. The main subject is her own mother, Srbijanka Turajlić.
Release Date: September 2017 (world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival)
Other Unique Stuff
- Outside those doors, Yugoslavia went through civil war, sanctions, hyperinflation, NATO bombing, the breakup of the country and the fall of Slobodan Milošević.
- Mila turns tiny household details into pieces of political history. Keys, locks, old furniture and family photographs matter because governments had changed who could own and use the space around them.
- “The Other Side of Everything” won the IDFA Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary, one of the biggest prizes in documentary film.
Wrap Up:
“The Other Side of Everything” makes Serbian history personal—and Srbijanka is the kind of documentary subject I could listen to for hours.
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Heather Fenty, Guest Writer, Daily Doc