Discoveries from Macedonia World Cinema

A love melodrama that follows the lives of four grown people, their professions, emotional and social problems.

Is the right way always forward? Is there only one way in life we follow? Do we have a choice on that way? Can we choose our co-passengers? Are we all moving with our own average speed along this way?

Arban is a 12-13-year-old boy who falls in love with a young and attractive salesgirl called Aida who works opposite his father’s business where Arban often goes to help out. But Aida has no intention of attracting the young teenager, and Arban’s love leads to fierce jealousy of anyone close to Aida, as well as against his own father, Luan. Luan’s business is going well, but to increase the number of his customers Luan secretly goes out every night to throw nails on the streets. Arban discovers this by accident and suspects his father is going to see the beautiful Aida. One day his father falls into his own trap and has an accident. He spends six months in hospital, and after this Luan decides to follow the right path...

An unexpected meeting between a young man and an elderly woman intertwines their lives forever.

Story about a 10 year old Albanian Muslim kid, Arben who decides to participate in a religious competition organized by his school in honor of the Christian holiday Epiphany, in order to get the 10.000 denars award and help his little brother who is very sick.

A short documentary film about Miki Lee Trajchevski, a homeless person from Macedonia, who speaks 6 languages, lives by rules of Bruce Lee's philosophy and claims that has encounters with aliens.

Two friends and their fight for survival in the jungle of contemporary art.

Marija, a writer, seeks solitude in her family's mountain house to complete her book about her mother's murder. As she delves into the investigation, haunting memories resurface, plunging her into deep horror.

A sci-fi animated short film

Reportage about Baki Imeri, poet, translator and journalist. From a Romanian mother and an Albanian father, Baki lives and works in Bucharest. A man who amazes with his creative energy and with his desire, and efforts, to create real bridges between peoples, using artistic and cultural values.

The film deals with the frescoes in Macedonian churches, which are harbingers of the Renaissance. Special attention is given to the medieval churches: "St. Panteleimon" in Gorno Nerezi and "St. George" in the village of Kurbinovo. Two hundred years before the Renaissance began in Italy, the Renaissance began in Macedonia, with the frescoes of the famous masters Mihail and Evtihij. Comparing the fresco "Lamentation of Christ" by Giotto di Bondone, who is considered a harbinger of the Renaissance, and the same fresco by Mihail and Evtihij, one notices a great similarity in the psychological analysis of the characters.

A documentary about the prominent Macedonian artist Vladimir Georgievski (1942-2017). In his studio, located at the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Skopje, surrounded by his numerous works, he talks about the inspiration he received from the Spanish writer Cervantes. Georgievski talks about the portraits he painted of important people in his life. His work, the portrait of Dostoevsky, is on display at the F.M. Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg. Meanwhile, the portrait of Don Quixote has great meaning and symbolism for the author.

The film features three couples from different faiths and nationalities. But what stands out as unique is the conveying of the idea that in this globalized world, no one should or should feel special or superior to another.

A story of a gamer, whose family is hit by a serious financial crisis, who manages to help his family overcome it by becoming one of the best players of CONQUER ONLINE, an online computer game, and in this way he earns money.

A documentary about the dervishes in the Rufai Tekke, in the Skopje neighborhood of Gazi Baba. Through interviews, we learn about the history of the Tekke, built in 1818. The philosophy of life and tradition of the Rufai Dervishes originate from the Ottoman era and are passed down through generations, like a legacy.

Story about the Viennese scholar Franz Baron Nopcsa who almost became King of Albania. A politician, a spy, a military man, he was doing diplomatic work in Romania, Macedonia, Albania. This documentary is about his life and adventures, together with his lover and secretary, Bayazid Elmas Doda.

Daniel has been suffering from a toothache a few days,he doesn't have money to take care of it. He can't bear the pain any longer so he is going to decide to take care of the problem in a brutal manner.

GamGam just wants to smoke her cigarette while she waits for her tea to brew, but her screwy lighter won't work. While she's out on her window, she decides to listen in to the gossip outside, ignoring the chaos happening behind her.

The question whether the punk is dead is constantly thrown around, as well as what is punk and if this or that is punk enough. "A Day to Be Happy" is a movie in the shape of a testimony about the constant fight of few musical individuals not to be put in the bin where music has some purpose, some genre, some goal or some fee.

Perhaps the richest collection of Macedonian musical heritage is carefully preserved, digitized and archived in the home of the Endendijk family in Sust, the Netherlands. The rich musical collection, collected throughout their lives, is the legacy that the Dutch couple plans to pass on to someone in Macedonia. For years, they have been living with the dilemma of whether there is an appropriate institution to take care of this heritage, given that historical archives are not properly preserved and some are lost forever. The film follows one family's struggle to preserve a part of Macedonian history.

Joseph Bagheri, who was self-taught and learned to read and write at the age of 18, is one of the last revivalists. He is one of the most significant figures of the 19th century, a period of national renewal: Bagheri rose as a hero against five centuries of Ottoman slavery, fighting for freedom and national dignity.

In the spring of 1948, after the Second World War, a tragedy of large proportions took place in the southern part of the Balkans. As a result of the Civil War in Greece, over 28,000 children between age of 2 and 14, with tears in their eyes, were separated from their parents and siblings and transferred to various East European countries, to be saved from the consequences of the war. Growing up in group homes and camps across Eastern Europe, far away from their families, they carried with them the burden of the memories to all those events. With the assistance of Red Cross they searched for their lost ones over the years. The film portrays the testimonials from some of these 28,000 children refugees who were evacuated from their homes in northern Greece between 1948 and 1949 during the Greek Civil War.

An intimate and psychological portrait of the young artist Denis, who faces his limits in his search for the perfect painting. He has achieved some fame and success, but, despite this, believes that he will die an unfulfilled and mediocre artist.

A young man and a robot in the final moments before a meteor strikes their planet.

Short avant-garde video.

"Margina" reflects upon life in the Roma community, giving very intimate insights into the life of a Roma family in Macedonia, who exists "at the edge" of European society. Without overt pathos, the film shows everyday family-life, marked by social marginalization and economic hardship, but also the usual domestic problems

Regina a journalist and writer, inspired by a special gift, a souvenir reproduction of the Maiden’s Tower on the Bosphorus, decides to travel to Istanbul to research and write of less known history. Her quest is the demystification of the secrets in the masterpieces and the fate of the remarkable historical figures. The stories have one thing in common, forbidden love. Her adventure is full of surprises and challenges, the string of “pearls” becomes a bridge between two civilizations, and her journey is at the same time a personal “pearl“, culminating in a romance in Macedonia.

Nezo is a docufiction film based on the true story of nurse Ljupka Siljanova Cipusheva, who was engaged in the Stenkovec Refugee Camp during the Kosovo conflict and the 1999 NATO bombing. She tells the story of Nezo, a 16 year old boy who speaks 5 foreign languages and works as a translator at Camp Stenkovec.

In 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, a young guy Dejan falls in love with Klaudija. His path to pursue her leads him to explore his own subjective reality.

A documentary film that tells the story of the ancient city of Ohrid and the locality of Plaošnik through a virtual journey.

We went in search of the graves of the Macedonian vojvodas to remember their maxims. Their voice is very strong if there is someone to hear it... Only in the Macedonian language and in Macedonia the term "vojvoda" has a single meaning - a strong man, brave, leader of a rebel group or company during the time of Turkish slavery.

The documentary film "Child" is a touching drama based on the fate of a child from a mixed marriage between an Australian woman and a Macedonian man. In fact, it is part of the fate of a large number of children in conditions of large world migrations.