From the website of the Cape Winelands Film Festival: “Films from Azerbaijan, Serbia, Belgium, France, Germany, Russia, Mexico, Slovakia and South Africa were among the winners of the 5th edition of the Cape Winelands Film Festival (CWFF), which had its last screenings on 24 March 2012 in Stellenbosch and Cape Town. The programme included award
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We are very excited to announce the start of a spring university tour of screenings and lectures for CINEMA KOMUNISTO, the award-winning documentary that takes us behind-the-scenes of Tito’s cinema industry! The tour kicked off on March 13thwith a screening at the University of Michigan, and director Mila Turajlic will be present for a Q&A. On
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During the Tempo Documentary Festival programmers at the Swedish Cinemateque set up a double-bill – the screening of Cinema Komunisto followed by a rare screening of Veljko Bulajic’s epic film “The Battle of Neretva”. It was exciting to see such a preserved copy of this 1969 Academy-Award nominated film, which was recently named one of
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Cinema Komunisto has won the award of the Serbian branch of FIPRESCI for Best Documentary Film. This particular category was introduced for the first time this year, and we are proud to be the first winners of such a prestigious award. Producer Dragan Pešikan and director Mila Turajlic attended the awards ceremony in the Museum
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The James Agee Cinema Circle announced the 5th annual “Progie” Award nominees for 2012’s Best Progressive Films and Filmmakers. CINEMA KOMUNISTO got nominated in the category THE LANGLOIS: For BEST PROGRESSIVE PICTURE DESERVING THEATRICAL RELEASE IN THE US and distribution in other countries and platforms. The Progies are the “un-Oscar”, the people’s “alternative Academy Awards.”
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Cinema Komunisto has made it into the lists of several film critics as one of the highlights of 2011! The Serbian edition of PLAYBOY magazine, listed the film among it’s Top Ten of 2011, making it the only documentary on this line-up. In the most-read daily newspaper Blic, noted Serbian film Milan Vlajčić listed Cinema
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The International Herald Tribune has published an article about the exciting new developments in Balkan cinema. The article leads off with an interview with Mila Turajlic, noting that Cinema Komunisto is part of an a new generation of filmmaking. Jouranlist Ginanne Brownell notes that: “While it might be premature to claim that there is a
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Cinema Komunisto had its Egyptian premiere at the 4th Panorama of European Film in Cairo. Mila Turajlic was the guest of Misr Film International, and participated in an exciting Q&A discussion with the Egyptian audience after the screening. The following day there was a long post-screening with students of the American University in Cairo. The
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We are proud to announce that the 2011 Gold Hugo Award for Best Documentary at Chicago International Film Festival goes to CINEMA KOMUNISTO. Mila Turajlić, the film’s director, had the honor of having her first feature doc in the international documentary competition together with such greats as Wim Wenders, Claude Lelouch, Frederick Wiseman and Werner
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In this month’s article on nostalgia in the former Yugoslavia, Le Monde Diplomatique devotes an entire paragraph to Cinema Komunisto and it’s triumph around the former Yugoslavia. In the article entitled “A Walk Through Yugonostalgia” the author writes: “Twenty years after the tragic break-up of SFRY, nostalgia for the old shared country is on the
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Mila Turajlic wins a BEST BALKAN NEWCOMER award @ Dokufest in Prizren! The award for fer best debut film, CINEMA KOMUNISTO, (as decided by the Jury comprised of Alexandar Nanau, Sara Garcia Villanueva and Donald Mosher) has been given by Balkan Documentary Center and provided by the State Institute for Culture at the Ministry of
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06. 07. 2011.| 09:22 The Constitution is on the side of “Avala film” – Tri film associations and KPZ have sent a demand to the President and Government of Serbia to halt the liquidation of Avala Film The Association of Film Artists, Association of Film Actors and Association of Film Directors of Serbia, together
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CINEMA KOMUNISTO wins two awards at CINEMA CITY international Film Festival in Novi Sad! The AUDIENCE AWARD (thank you oh so much!) and – it gives us great pleasure to say that Aleksandra Milovanović has won the award for BEST EDITING within the National Class competition selection, in which Cinema Komunisto was the only documentary
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The YOUNG ONION Award for the Best Film by First or Second-Time Director @ MakeDox Festival, Skopje goes to Mila Turajlic / CINEMA KOMUNISTO! The jury consisted of Agneta Mogren, Festival Director of Sweden’s largest documentary festival – Tempo Documentary Festival, Truls Lie, editor-in-chief for DOX, the leading European quarterly magazine for documentary films and
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CINEMA KOMUNISTO wins the Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize at International Feature Documentary TELEKOM UNDERHILLFEST Festival in Podgorica/Montenegro! The jury’s decision stated: Through the rise and fall of Yugoslav cinema CINEMA KOMUNISTO reflects the rise and fall of Yugoslavia in a deeply emotional way, while its use of humor and meticulous attention to
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Cinema Komunisto continued its tour of ex-Yugoslav republics with its Montenegrin premiere at the Underhill Fest in Podgorica. Cinema Komunisto was the opening film of the second edition of the Underhill festival, which took place in the small stadium – our first open air screening! The film captivated the audience’s attention, so much that dozens
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Cinema Komunisto has won the FOCAL International Award for Best Use of Archival Footage in an Arts Production! The FOCAL International Awards 2011, in association with AP Archive, were presented on 11th May 2011 at the Lancaster London Hotel, London by Mr. Greg Dyke, Patron FOCAL International. FOCAL Awards are being sponsored and given by
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Having been promoted by the press and critics as an “elegantly constructed memory machine” and placed among the top 10 flicks not to be missed at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Cinema Komunisto attracted a lot of attention at this year’s festival. All four screenings were sold out, and director Mila Turajlic and editor Aleksandra
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Cinema Komunisto is attracting a lot of attention at the kick-off of the Tribeca Film Festival. The film has been highlighted in indieWire’s “Tribeca 2011: Ten Picks for Must-See Flicks”, Village Voice’s top 7 films to catch, and the Wall Street Journal’s five recommended films kicking off the festival! Tribeca 2011: Ten Picks for Must-See
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Cinema Komunisto has been awarded an Honorable Mention at the It’s All True Festival in Brazil, the leading event devoted exclusively to the culture of documentary in South America. Every year since 1996, around one hundred Brazilian and International documentaries, premières and classics, are screened for ten days simultaneously in São Paulo and Rio de
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After a successful festival launch in Europe, where it picked up two awards, Cinema Komunisto is finally crossing the Atlantic and will begin its North American festival tour in April! First up is the US premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 21st, in the World Documentary Competition. After that we go on to
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Cinema Komunisto is a finalist for the prestigious FOCAL International Award for Best Use of Archival Footage in an Arts Production. The awards ceremony will take place on May 11, 2011 at the Lancaster Hotel in London. Now in its eight year the FOCAL International Awards is the only global competition dedicated to celebrate the
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Cinema Komunisto has won the hearts of the audience at the The International Nicosia Documentary Festival “Views of the World” where it was screened on March 13th among Michale Madsen’s Into Eternity and Patricio Guzmá’s Nostalgia de la Luz.
Cinema Komunisto has been selected into the highly prestigious World Documentary Competiton at the Tribeca Film Festival. From the festival website: For 32 years, Leka Konstantinovic was the personal film projectionist for Yugoslavian president and noted film enthusiast Josip Broz Tito. Comprised of interviews with Konstantinovic and other important figures in the brief but glowing
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Due to incredible public interest the documentary film „Cinema Komunisto“ will be opening in several cinemas starting from February 10th. After an incredibly successful premiere, at the recently closed “Magnificent 7″ Festival, domestic audiences will have the opportunity to see the film on ergular cinema programmes, starting on February 10th.The film will be screening at
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The domestic premiere of “Cinema Komunisto” was the closing film of the Magnificent 7 Festival, screening in the large auditorium of the Sava Center before a packed audience. The public showed a great interest for the first Serbian documentary ever programmed in the history of teh festival. Following the screening the members of the crew
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Two of Italy’s biggest daily papers “Corriere della Sera” and “La Repubblica” have written up Cinema Komunisto, citing the considerable attention it attracted at the Trieste Film Festival. The links to the articles are on the Press page. From the press conference (on the right, with Fabrizio Grosoli, the selector of the documentary competition program):
Cinema Komunisto has won the ALPE ADRIA CINEMA AWARD for the best documentary at the 2011 Trieste Film Festival! The film was screened at the festival on Friday 21st of January before a packed audience. The festival, which has an orientation towards East European Cinema has in the past been host to many Yugoslav filmmakers and
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Cinema Komunisto will be screening in the Documentary Competition Section of the Alpe-Adria film festival in Trieste. The screening will be on Friday, January 21st at 8pm at the Miela Theatre. More info on the festival website.
Tickets are now on sale for the domestic premiere of Cinema Komunisto. January 29th, 8:15pm, Sava Center, Belgrade See you there! Tickets can be purchased at the Sava Center ticket office, or DKC in Kolarceva.
Cinema Komunisto will be the closing film of the Magnificent 7 European Feature Documentary Film Festival on January 29th! This will be the first opportunity for Serbian audiences to see this film, which had its world premiere last month at IDFA. The festival takes place from January 25-29th, 2011 at the Sava Center in Belgrade.
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Mark Adams, chief film critic of Screen International has posted a review of Cinema Komunisto calling it a “fascinating and absorbing documentary” which is a “must for film fans and likely to be a popular addition to film festivals who love nothing more than to delve into the history of world cinema.” From the review:
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Indiewire reporter Brian Brooks wrote the first Cinema Komunisto review following the world premiere at the Tuschinski Cinema in Amsterdam. “Another Sundance possibility – though perhaps more of a long-shot – is Serbian director Mila Turajlic delightful “Cinema Komunisto.” The film spotlights the remains of the country’s once proud film industry, with a parallel narrative
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The world premiere of “Cinema Komunisto” took place on Friday, November 19th at one of the most beautiful cinemas in Europe, the famous Art-Deco Cinema Tuschinski in Amsterdam. The film was introduced by Isabel Arrate of the Jan Vrijman Fund as an “IDFA baby”, having not only received post-production funding, but also being developed at
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Tickets can be purchased online through the IDFA website. Click here. Thursday, November 18 Munt 13 14:15 Friday, November 19 Tuschinski 1 17:15 Sunday, November 21 Tuschinski 4 10:00 Tuesday, November 23 OBA 17:30 Wednesday, November 24 Munt 12 16:45 Friday, November 26 Brakke Grond Rode Zaal 23:15
We are proud to announce that “Cinema Komunisto” will have its world premiere in the First Appearance Competition at IDFA 2010. More news on screening dates to follow.
Mila Turajlic was selected to attend the prestigious Talent Campus during the 2009 Berlinale. The Campus gathers selected filmmakers from all over the world, into a week-long program of masterclasses, matchmaking events, and consultations with experts.
Cinema Komunisto has been awarded funding from Belgrade City Secretariat for Culture, as well as post-production funding from the Film Center of Serbia. Cinema Komunisto was one of the projects selected for post-production funding by the prestigious Jan Vrijman Fund.
Cinema Komunisto rough cut selected for IDFAcademy Summer School
Cinema Komunisto selected for Docu Talents from the East presentation at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival
Cinema Komunisto selected for Discovery Campus Masterschool and presented at pitcing forum of Leipzig Film Festival.
Cinema Komunisto selected for ARCHIDOC atelier at La Femis in Paris, an archive-based documentary workshop. Archidoc addresses issues and questions linked to archive material use. The participants analyse and fine-tune their project, considering the point of view, story, and use of archive material, and are encouraged to find an innovative use of archive footage in
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