A door locked for 70 years in a house haunted by history. The story of an apartment in Belgrade turns a family chronicle into a portrait of a country in political turmoil. As the filmmaker seeks answers from her activist mother, their intimate conversation questions the responsibility of each generation to fight for their future.

Credits

Director

Mila Turajlic

Screenwriter

Mila Turajlic

Producer

Carine Chichkowsky

Executive Producer

Iva Plemic Divjak

Co-Producer

Carine Chichkowsky, Survivanace

Production Company

Dribbling Pictures

Cast

Two main characters in the film are:
The Apartment
The Mother

About the Director

Mila Turajlić

Mila Turajlić is a documentary filmmaker, visual artist and archive scholar born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Her films have screened at Toronto, Venice and Tribeca and her video installations were commissioned by international museums. Her most recent film ‘The Other Side of Everything’ was HBO Europe’s first co-production with Serbia and won 30 awards including the prestigious IDFA Award for Best Do

Producers

Iva Plemic Divjak

Iva Plemic Divjak started producing documentaries as one of the producers of the award-winning documentary, 'Cinema Komunisto' (2010) directed by Mila Turajlić, continuing as the executive producer of 'The Other Side of Everything' by the same director (Grand Prix IDFA 2017). For ten years, Iva has been producing the Magnificent 7 - European Feature Documentary Film Festival in Belgrade. She joined Horopter Film Production in 2017 and produced the award-winning feature documentaries '4 Years in 10 Minutes' (2018) and 'Merry Christmas, Yiwu' (Heart of Sarajevo for the Best Documentary 2020), both directed by Mladen Kovačević. She is a member of the Serbian Documentary Association – DokSrbija, a member of EWA Network, an alumna of EURODOC and Emerging Producers programs and a co-representative of Serbia in the EURIMAGES Board of Management.

Contacts

Doha Film Institute

Initiatives

DFI Events

Media

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