Cinema Komunisto

Serbia 2010
Mila Turajlic
100’

Best Documentary Award, Trieste International Film Festival 2011, In Competition at the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam-IDFA 2010

Cinema Komunisto quite wonderfully tracks the history of former Yugoslavia through its cinema, once a thriving industry, that reached its peak during Josip Broz Tito inspired presidency. The cinephile leader often spent the entire night watching Westerns, and was so determined that his country develop a bustling movie industry that soldiers often served their entire duty as extras in war films. Debut director Mila Turajlic beautifully recaps her country’s glorious film history only to come back to a crumbling reality, haunted by rotting old studio complexes filled with nothing but memories.