Discoveries from Macedonia World Cinema

Macedonian TV drama

А short film about the psyche of a military sniper.

Young Denica and her companion take a walk across the cemetery and talk about what happened to Grandma, who no longer comes to visit.

Stavro is a talented guitar student in his twenties. Jade is a vocal student and his girlfriend. They are from a small town in the heart of the Balkans, traveling to another city to study music. Ljuben is their friend musician drummer and already finished his studies. Struggling through the endless societal transition they are finding innovative ways to express their talents and collecting junk from the waste yard, crafting unique instruments, composing music, and playing it at a concert. Parallel to the strong passion for music, the relationship between Stavro and Jade is growing.

Jovan inherits shoes from his late father. From that moment on, his everyday life-routine is disrupted. Jovan blames his father’s shoes for this, but the actual reason for his unfulfilled life is one crucial event from his past.

Angel, shy and introvert boy, goes to pick apples for sale with his friend Mishko. But as the day goes by, Angel faces more and more the cruelty of Mishko and his own parents.

In rural North Macedonia, a determined woman begins a quiet revolution. Inheriting her father’s job as a van driver, she opens new possibilities for the women around her.

Marko is a vampire who suddenly starts to dream and wake up before the sunset.

Alek is a 10 year old autistic child. During a family day at the park, Alek disappears. He follows a very tall man that only he can see. Alek walks towards a lake like hypnotised. We hear his parents calling his name while he is only a step away from the water.

Violent youth is a film about a group of children who are struggling in a society. The story takes place in the Nineties years, when Macedonia was at a crossroads in its independence and forming their own way. Period of transition and proof… The story takes place in the capital of its margin, in a small stubburn. The main character is a picture of alienation and a photo forgotten and disbanded youth. Youth - no idea and direction, no time in which it could be priced.

Gligor, a young misfit from a countryside becomes marked by his instinctive need to deal with irregularities which a time-storm imposes. He is recalling the dramatic scenes of the past - from rattle games, from delicate moments with Marija, from the foreign mockery and from the pointless heroism - he finally comes across an absurd ring like a new purified and transformed man devoted to his native hearth and God's salvation.

An incredible and sad story about the bear named Menka which roams the wilderness by day and is part of the Trajkovi family by night.

Macedonian parody of the British sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!

A young boy from Skopje is trying to find a way out of life by using the internet... The communication he wants to achieve with the outside world, via the internet, is just a reluctant excuse of the young man, who wants to hide from his disturbed senses his isolation from people, his helplessness and fear that he will never be able to establish communication with them again....

The lives of three regular visitors to the cafe are shown, who are also unmarried. The fates of the three are connected with the waitress Mrika, who flirts with the three men.

Two hearts, one battle, endless love.

A documentary about the late Macedonian musician Toše Proeski.

Balkan actuality.

Road trip through the periphery of the EU shows present-day Europe through the eyes of a much-travelled six-year-old, wise beyond his years. A fresh look at this old continent: shooting from the hip and free from sentimentality, young Terra questions the usefulness and purpose of borders.

Documentary feature film focusing on the life and career of Bajrush Mjaku, a ground-breaking actor who was active and still inspiring the Theaters in Balkans and worldwide. A superstar in the art world, but little known outside the theaters professionals and audiences, why does Bajrus Mjaku continue to excite passions? This brilliant, gifted and visionary actor, father and grandfather give us his story overlapping some half of the century of professional success and dedication to his family, through most hard times to represents his Albanian culture. Always keeping his family together, always make audiences applause, smile and cry to his performance on the scene. His mission is Acting, and his Acting is the mission.

A documentary film about the sound installation made by the Macedonian artist Aleksandar Spasoski in 2013 in Munich, at the Isar river under the bridge of Raichenbachbrücke. Reproducing the sound of a real ship horn at a place with no water traffic, the artist wanted to stimulate the audience’s imagination as if a real ship was passing by, as well as to see how the sound would affect other people who are out of the location focus.

A boy prepares for a final showdown with his bullies. A spirit from Macedonian folktales interferes.

Bale is a middle-aged man who became blind when he was a teenager. He used to live with his mother, his father, his brother and his two sisters. After finishing high school in Skopje he returned to Brajcino at his family. His family has not been a pleasant environment. Quarrels and rows fulfilled Bale’s everyday life. Having a father addicted to alcohol made problems inevitable. But besides all the disruptions, Bale have grown into a mature person that couldn’t succeed in life only because of its state of invalidity.

Ajdin, a journalist, whose work pleasure is being exposed by the editor of the newspaper, leads him to a life changing mistake that will cost him a lot.

A short graduation film.

"The Quality of Image" is an participatory art project that draws inspiration from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to explore and analyze the markers of modern society's quality of life. Focused on both the quantity and quality of individual needs and their fulfillment, the project aims to delve into the subjective and objective aspects of life indicators and standards of living. Through a process of deconstruction and dismantling, indicators will reconstruct the image of quality of life in Athens. Every individual will create operational images, in order to transform a data (percentage) into image, the data which was created by the European Commision on the Quality of Life report in 2023.

A documentary about Roma thieves.

Documentary about Garabet Tavitjan, a Macedonian drummer of Armenian descent who has been a member of the rock group Leb i sol. He is considered the most acclaimed Macedonian drummer.

Documentary covering the first four months of the war in Ukraine in 2022.

A documentary about Izet Curri - a fashion stylist for the costumes of Christopher Lambert, John Holiday, Gérard Depardieu. His futuristic drawings of various costumes were used by the famous painter Dado…

A short film in honor of a young girl who lost her life too soon.

Macedonian TV drama.

Macedonian TV drama happening around Good Friday.

Form B16 is a film about a man who gets the smallest piece of the pie. Stuck in a bureaucratic labyrinth, he goes through a number of absurd situations, and following the already established and predetermined steps, he somehow ends up at the beginning.

People’s Front is a short animation film that mirrors the contemporary society through interrelated stories, symbols and allegories present in and around the building No 12.

Nika is a young girl who is in a desperate need of money. On her first workday at a home for elderly people she meets Vera, a forgotten actress who is willing to pay money in order to die.

During the conflict in Macedonia in 2001, a Spec-Ops soldier is placed in a transport truck along with a group of unexperienced young soldiers mobilized for active duty. While on the road, the convoy is ambushed and all hell breaks loose over the group. Panic takes over and people start dying. The Spec-Ops soldier tries everything to lead his young unit of soldiers to safety, but their inexperience leads many to their deaths.

Three best friends are hanging out in a basement, when one of them finds an old radio. Amazingly, a voice from the radio transmits news from the future and the past. As each of them become keenly aware of the value of the radio, the friends argue over who should get to keep it. Tensions escalate and the situation reaches a tragic conclusion.

Throughout our lives we grow used to the sounds surrounding us and they become so familiar that, over time, we hardly pay any attention to them. Many of those sounds have little meaning for us. Yet, recognizing them makes us aware that something is going on and invokes an image, without our relying on our other senses. Perhaps, we might recognize in them the sound of summer or the smell of a familiar place. But do we always recognize their source?

An unemployed cello player turned software tester gets more than she bargained for when a musical therapy smart speaker blasts ominous sounds in the middle of the night.

Macedonian mockumentary.

A movie about escape from the everyday life, about the people that are around us always, looking for food in the trash containers, about those whose wishes never came true.

Igor and his small gang of football fans plan an armed robbery, triggering an unexpected turn of events which force Igor to deny his nationality, religion, family and f riends - the four key pillars of his identity. Set in multicultural Skopje, I am not Igor is a story about what is left of us when we stop believing that we really are our personal story about ourselves.

A short student film by Lidija Mojsovska.

A poetic journey through the Serengeti National Park and Tanzania in Africa. The endemic flora and fauna, as well as the beautiful natural beauties are a blessing for the human soul, for the traveler, but his presence seems to represent pollution of the environment. Even the path along which man moves, which is created by himself, seems to be an intruder in these wild landscapes. How far should human intervention in nature and the environment in which he lives go? What is the limit beyond which human presence represents a violation of cosmic harmony?

The film follows life destinies of eight people with Macedonian and Croatian origin each living in the others’ country. The film analyzes the lives of mainly young individuals who have more or less fulfilled themselves in a socially, religiously and culturally different environment by opening the issues of identity, connection with the environment they come from, cultural and religious differences and the relation of society to the individual.

A docu-fiction about the period between 1924 and 1930 when the Russian emigrant Yovan Subanovich shared the secret of making original pearls to the Ohrid families Talevi and Filevi.

Lost in the labyrinth of his subconscious, Gottlieb struggles to find his way back to reality. Deconstructing his make-believe world puts his life at risk, however, and as his realities collide he becomes aware of his self-imprisonment.

In 1917, the legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt visits the French soldiers on the Macedonian front in the vicinity of Bitola. On the improvised stage she performed excerpts from Hamlet, character that she, as first female has marvelously interpreted twenty years earlier in the cosmopolitan Paris. The lines of Hamlet in the terror of war attain cruel authenticity and open the eternal question - is human capable of escaping from himself.

The beginnings of the legendary Macedonian band "Mizar", the tough path in which from ordinary garage band, Mizar becomes one of the most important bands in the history of the Macedonian rock culture.

The life story of Trajko Damevski - Šate who left Macedonia looking for brighter future while working in Australia and on cruise ships.

A few years after World War II, Benedict, a former fascist officer, comes to terms with the psychological consequences of the war.

Through the eyes of Era, a resilient yet fragile woman, the audience is introduced to a dystopian reality where victims and perpetrators of violence are intertwined, and the boundaries between guilt and innocence become blurred.

Lidija's busy double life as a food box seller and drug dealer takes a dangerous turn when a fatal mistake threatens her relationship with her drug lord, endangers her daughter's life and risks exposing her to Nikola, her policeman husband.

Stevo survives an assassination and a year later inaugurates a cinema called "Love", an idea and life dream of his brother-in-law.

Three stories, three views on love and adultery in a comical way.

The beginnings of the band "Bernajs Propaganda" through the daily challenge of living for music are shown along with a depiction of the underground history of the Skopje rock and roll scene, for its authentic urban sensibility and inexhaustible creative energy.

An experimental comedy short audio film, where the picture is not seen, but imagined.

Satisfied with his own life, fireman Gjore Ristevski, finds himself in the middle of a migration process. Manipulated by his pregnant wife Sofia, Gjore realizes that his country is already offering everything they need.

Talented people like artists or writers who stayed have one choice only: work as seamstresses. Eriela, Beti and Vesna are seamstresses in the small town of Štip. If they wanted to afford one of their handmade blouses, it would cost them a months salary. While the women are fully employed, their men are less fortunate and find themselves unemployed after the collapse of communism. A situation with a lot of potential conflict for the couples. The men find it hard to be dependent financially on their women, when they used to proudly provide for the family.