The Phoenix of Kavadarci

The Phoenix of Kavadarci 2022

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A documentary about Vasil Hadzimanov - a celebrated explorer of Macedonian folk songs and one of the first Macedonian researchers of ethnic music.

2022

Pecko - The Big Nose

Pecko - The Big Nose 1985

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Pecko has a big nose and because of that problem he has a lot of unpleasant incidents.

1985

Vision

Vision 2021

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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.

2021

Eyes

Eyes 1969

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A film about some inner states of man: joy, pain, prayer, fear, shown through the mood of a girl, more precisely through her eyes. The thread that connects all those states in the film is a ball, with which the girl plays when she is happy, and when she is not there, it is sad. In moments of fear, the girl can not establish communication with people, because the ball is gone.

1969

The Monk

The Monk 2018

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In a small monastery, hidden in the rocky mountains along a lake far from civilization, a lonesome young monk paints frescoes of saints on the walls. On a quiet sunny day, while fishing in his small rowboat in the middle of the lake, he suddenly hears female voices. Is he being tempted? Is his conscience being tested?

2018

Kaval

Kaval 2020

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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...

2020

Round Trip: Mary

Round Trip: Mary 2015

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Round Trip: Mary is the second part of the Round Trip trilogy. A young cowgirl in a small village is rounding up her cattle and preparing herself for a trip to the town. On her way there she meets different people in different situations. In the town she is attracted by the cinema and the film posters and enters a cinema for the first time…

2015

People's Front 12

People's Front 12 2012

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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.

2012

Inside

Inside 2009

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The isolated world of a man, living in nostalgia of the past moments spent with his loved one.

2009

1963: Good Night Skopje

1963: Good Night Skopje 2020

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Skopje earthquake happened on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured between 3,000 and 4,000 and left more than 200,000 people homeless. About 80 percent of the city was destroyed.

2020

White Storks

White Storks 1959

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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.

1959

Sarah, the Myth

Sarah, the Myth 2011

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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.

2011

Adam (5 to 12)

Adam (5 to 12) 1977

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According to the Bible, the first man walked on Earth at 5 minutes to 12 o’clock. It was Adam, and he lived 930 years. The clock has been showing 5 to 12 for a long time. The question is raised: till when? Because, once the count down starts, the end is unavoidable.

1977

Sledge

Sledge 1962

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The 6 minute short film SLEDGE (1962) was filmed and directed by then 27 years old Kotse Mitrev in Stip, Republic of Macedonia. The lead role is played by London-based producer-director George Stankoski, then 4 years old and son of Macedonian actor Panko Stankoski. SLEDGE won first prizes in the Sarajevo Festival Children's Film Category in 1962, and the Belgrade Republic Festival Shorts Category in 1964. SLEDGE was recently recovered by Stip-based historian and film archivist Alexander Donski, and efforts are now being made to restore and re-scan this working copy for high quality viewing.

1962

Please, Stop Everything

Please, Stop Everything 1989

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

1989

Day

Day 1989

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

1989