NON-ALIGNED & CINÉ-GUERRILLAS
scenes from the Labudović Reels

A documentary diptych.

In an unexplored vault in Belgrade, the capital of the former Yugoslavia, lies a collection of films known as ‘the Labudovic Reels’. On them are images of African and Asian liberation movements and revolutionary leaders that defined the era of the 1960s. How is it that the archive of these revolutions lies on another continent, forgotten in a film archive?

The answer to this question takes us into the story behind the images, on an intimate voyage with Stevan Labudovic, the man who filmed them. As the cameraman of Yugoslav president Tito, Stevan Labudovic captured an era of politics, personality and promise, filming the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement. Sent on missions by the President to film liberation wars, he would play a key role in the information battle that defined the era of decolonization. A diptych of films explores the untold stories behind this extraordinary film archive.

Non-Aligned re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement in the 50’s and 60’s and the personalities who defined it, examining how cinema gave expression to their political dream.

Ciné-guerrillas plunges us into the media battle that played out during the Algerian war for independence when the filmed image became a weapon of political struggle against colonialism.

Directed by: Mila Turajlić
Produced by: Carine Chichkowsky & Mila Turajlić
Edited by: Sylvie Gadmer, Anne Renardet and Mila Turajlić

World premiere Toronto International Film Festival September 2022

NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS - TRAILER

CINÉ-GUERRILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS - TRAILER

NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS
Produced by Poppy Pictures & Survivance
in collaboration with Filmske Novosti, Beograd
a co-production with Restart & Kino

with the support of
Film Center Serbia
CNC - Avec l'Aide aux Cinémas du monde - Centre National du Cinéma et de I'Image animée - Institut Francais
Montenegro Film Center
HAVC Croatian Audiovisual Center
Creative Europe MEDIA  programme
Doha Film Institute
EURIMAGES
PROCIREP-Société des producteurs
ANGOA

in association with
ZDF-Arte
Chicken & Egg Pictures

Developed with
Doc Station, Berlinale
When East Meets West, Trieste Film Festival
Ex-Oriente
Union Doc Summer Documentary Intensive
EAVE
DOC NYC Pro
IDFA Forum
IFP Week
Cph:Dox Forum
Dok.Incubator

CINÉ-GUERRILLAS: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS
Produced by Poppy Pictures & Survivance
in collaboration with Filmske Novosti, Beograd
in association with
Al Jazeera
Chicken & Egg Pictures
in co-production with Restart & Kino