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A group of children find space to play between an unfinished apartment house and a brickyard, building their own world in the inexhaustible possibilities offered by their imagination. Their play, joy and laughter bother the construction site guard, and that means the end of the game.

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 a small mountain village, every summer the grandchild comes to his grandparents, where his days are immersed in the scent of the summer. His grandfather is playing kaval. The boy meets the kaval and the magic of its sound. What's hidden in this long pipe? Is the music inside? So he looks through the kaval toward the sky and feels the freedom and the joy of life. Unknowingly, he carries this moment within even when he grows up and gets alienated in the everyday life routines. Slowly the tiredness from the city reminds him of the forgotten...

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.

The short film Conversation on Life reconstructs an event that happened to the movie hero, the writer Vulnet, when he was young. Vulnet describes his life story to his grandson Arbresh, who then, after a lot endeavors, prepares an adorable surprise his grandfather. Arbresh invites his grandfather on a joint trip to Kichevo and convinces him that this train journey will help him return to his writing and again become an idol to young readers. During the journey we get to know the life story of Vulnet, in particular an event that occurred a long time before in 1974. Vulnet had loved nature and it was in nature that he found his inspirations. And it was that nature enabled him to meet the girl that changed his life.

A film dedicated to the white storks in the Balkan region; the film describes the laying of the eggs, hatching, growing up of the young storks till their leaving, in Autumn, towards the coasts of North Africa.

The members of the Macedonian hip-hop crew Chista okolina (Clean Environment) rap some of their tracks a capella.

Train. Passengers, Macedonians and Albanians. Waiting to unravel the military conflict in Macedonia in the early 2001.

The last remaining occupant of an old abandoned village uses a church bell to communicate with the last remaining occupant of a neighboring village. One day, the old man is extremely disturbed by the fact that the bell from the other village is silent. He decides to go to the other village, where he finds his friend dead. He buries him and then returns to his everyday life. After a while, the old man is disturbed again when the usual silence is broken by the bell from the other village.

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.

The film reflects the life of the Macedonian emigrants and migrant workers in Australia. With their going away in far away countries and living abroad, some of them have succeed in socializing, but there are still some of them who always remain with the dilemma of returning in their native country. Through their personal retellings and the metaphor description of their whole way of living in the new surroundings, expressed in a mosaical cinemathographic way, one could get known with the hard work of the Macedonian emigrants; also, the education of their children, as well as the holly celebrations in the church, such as the baptizing, the weddings, but even the funerals either, as unavoidable part of human living.

Produced at International Video Colony Ohrid, Macedonia 1989. Screened in retrospective at Alternative Film/Video Belgrade Festival 2014.

Velika, a young teacher, is sent to a remote village in the mountains to teach the children who live there.

The film describes the Macedonian wedding customs during the religious holiday St. Peter's Day (Petrovden) in the Macedonian village of Galichnik and its surroundings. One can see the preparations for the wedding, as well as all the customs till the young couple's first wedding night.

A film-photographic collage of the city under King Marko’s Towers, its history, development and contemporary cultural and economic growth after liberation, all accompanied by the verses of Racin and Koneski.

The film records the celebration of the fifth anniversary of cultural life in the People's Republic of Macedonia, which took place in Ohrid in 1950, and included several cultural events: the unveiling of a monument to the Miladinov brothers in Struga, the opening of an exhibition of cultural achievements, as well as the II Congress of Educators.

Through footage of the furniture factory Treska is shown the progress and development of the wood industry as well as the production of furniture for mass consumption.

A girl, through her memories, relives her childhood, wearing pieces of it as part of herself. Each transformation brings her closer to an honest confrontation with herself. Throughout this journey, restlessness and silence, fragility and strength intertwine. In the end, she discovers that peace is not found in escape, but in acceptance.