Saints & Scholars present NON-ALIGNED (2022)

Saints & Scholars Militarism and Neutrality club present a documentary screening and panel discussion on the history of Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement.

Please join us on Friday 15 May in the Joly theatre, Hamilton building, Trinity College Dublin from 5.45 pm to talk international solidarity and resistance, decolonisation, and enduring lessons from Yugoslavia's role in the Non-Aligned Movement.

Running Order:

• 5.45pm - Doors open
• 6.00pm - Short introduction from Petra Matić
• 6.15pm-7.00pm - Panel discussion on Yugoslavia and the Non-Aligned Movement chaired by Dr Harun Šiljak
• 7.00pm-8.45pm - Screening of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

Documentary description:

Filmmaker Mila Turajlić was born in Belgrade, and grew up singing patriotic songs extolling Yugoslav leader Josep Broz Tito. The images that populated her “Yugoslavia of the mind” came largely from government newsreels—and the most iconic of those were shot by Stevan Labudović.

In NON-ALIGNED: SCENES FROM THE LABUDOVIĆ REELS, Turajlić delves into Labudović’s work documenting the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement, a largely Yugoslav-led bloc including many decolonizing nations that stood apart from both East and West during the Cold War.

What begins as an exploration of newsreel footage of the 1961 Non-Aligned summit in Belgrade becomes a love letter to a vanished country and its hopes for the future, a history of the early days of the Non-Aligned Movement, and a document of the affinity between two filmmakers—Turajlić, in her forties, and Labudović, nearing 90.

Shot in Belgrade, New York, and Algeria, and featuring archival footage from around the globe filmed by Labudović, this is a subtle, complex documentary, adroitly blending personal and global histories.

What is Saints & Scholars?

Saints and Scholars is an independent Dublin-based reading and social club. The club creates collaborative spaces for activists and community organisers to learn and work together on themes of Care and Community, Neutrality and anti-Militarism, and Property, Land & Ecology, through reading groups, artistic projects, a film club and a ciorcal comhrá.

If you're interested in finding out more, or joining our mailing list, check out these links:
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Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland

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