I Walk Down a Road, I Ask for Directions 1968
A film dedicated to life in Mariovo, one of the most passive areas of Macedonia, not only due to the scarcity of natural opportunities for existence but also due to the isolation of this area.
A film dedicated to life in Mariovo, one of the most passive areas of Macedonia, not only due to the scarcity of natural opportunities for existence but also due to the isolation of this area.
The twenty-minute documentary was filmed in the Macedonian monasteries “St. John the Baptist”, known as the Bigorski Monastery and in the women’s monastery “St. George the Victorious” in Rajčica, near Debar. The term “metoch” means property owned by a monastery, and the monastery in Rajčica, where most of the film was filmed, is a metoch of the Bigorski Monastery. The film shows part of the everyday life of the Macedonian monastic community and the motives that inspired some of its members to make the decision to become monks. “Metoch” talks about joy, simplicity and love for God.
Nadica is late for school for her last exam.At the last moment, she decides to call her teacher and tell that her grandmother is dead. But the teacher postponed the exam because she also have to go to funeral. Nadica is in the shadow of her lie and now she has to go to the city cemetery and look for a dead granny to evict her lie to the end.
A film following the beginning of the human race to its end.
Millstones have always been produced in Lesnovo, placed in the Zletovo area, by cutting the rocks at the surrounding mountains. The production of these millstones and their transport through the steep slopes is a real Sisyphus labor.
This documentary is a portrait of Roza Mojsovska, a physically disabled young woman. Roza has been almost completely alone since she was very young, but has not given up her struggle for happiness. She writes poetry, paints pictures holding a brush in her mouth, uses a computer and studies foreign languages. And an important part of her life is her faith. It prevents her from sinking into despair, something which pulls strongly at her in the isolated world of the hospital.
An unusual fairytale about a princess who is trying to complicate her parent’s wish to get married and a young and poor shepherd who wins her heart.
Documentary about Jane Angelevski, a popular Macedonian folk music performer.
A long-length documentary film about the life and work of academician, poet, writer and one of the codifiers of the modern Macedonian literary language, Blaže Koneski.
The film showcases the photographic work of Janaki and Milton Manaki, the first Balkan cinematographers. Over the years, the Manaki brothers have been mythologized, and the addition of new and unconfirmed information in order to increase their importance is unnecessary and harmful, because their work is of great cultural importance not only in Macedonia, but also in the wider Balkan context. For this reason, every fact and opinion presented in the movie MANAKI – A STORY IN PICTURES has been carefully researched and confirmed with presented artifacts. The story is told through original documentary photographs following their work from the opening of the first professional studio in 1898 in Ioannina and later moving to Bitola, now known as the town of the Manaki brothers.
This is a story about the resilience of the human spirit during a pandemic. Little Tale, a great lover of film art, is infected with corona virus and is fighting for his life. Using the strength of the movie characters he adores, he gathers strength and resists the disease. The fairy Corona helps him and becomes his friend.
The film "Macedonians in Istanbul" is a film about the citizens of Istanbul, who are the fifth generation born in this city. As foreign workers, their ancestors from Macedonia moved to Istanbul in the 19th or early 20th century. Orthodox by religion, they celebrate their holidays in several sacred buildings that are still used in this city for that purpose. The members of this colony, mainly from the Aegean part of Macedonia, belong to a small community of rare, real, long-term citizens of the former metropolis of the Ottoman Empire, the great city of Istanbul.
Macedonian TV drama.
A dispute about water causes dramatic consequences, and the whole story grows into a tragic metaphor for the fate of a man doomed to fight for a bare existence.
Vojo, a retired police officer lives in Skopje, one of the most polluted cities in the world. He finds meaning in his passion and love for innovation, which he directs towards clean energy and ecology. Over the past 15 years, he has successfully implemented eight patented projects, but his passion is reserved for building a perpetual motion machine that will generate clean electricity without the need for an energy source. Will our Don Quixote-like hero succeed in fulfilling his mission – reducing pollution to save Earth from global warming and destruction by man – or will he redeem himself for the damage his obsession has caused to his family?
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.
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.
Fantastic love between two billboards...
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.
Alerik, a dreamy 16-year-old boy, lives with his grandfather in a country that is at war. When the old man is killed in a bomb attack, Alerik becomes obsessed by the wish to take revenge. From now on, the war has him firmly in its clutches.