Populär Vun Macedonia

All postmen are marathon runners. Every day kilometers and kilometers pass under their feet while they deliver letters.

Late in the night, a young man calls his best friend, fearing that he might not be alone in his apartment.

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.

Hari Dzekson is the first and only filmmaker of Western Films in the territory of the former Yugoslavia. In the 1980s, many people in Yugoslavia didn't know where the town of Bjelina was, but they knew who Hari Dzekson was. Hari Dzekson was a rebel against bureaucracy and injustice. He aimed to "repair" the world through his films.

A girl, living in a society she disagrees with, decides to follow what she thinks is needed, disregarding its usual rules and prohibitions against feeling emotions.

"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

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.

A research into the unusual life path of Ilija Dzadzev – musician, Hawaiian and classical guitar virtuoso, poet, philosopher, geography teacher. A story of the quest for a lost novel in manuscript. A story about the adventures of a Hawaiian guitar. This man-phenomenon played over 6,000 free concerts across the world, without making a difference between playing in front of people from the top or from the bottom. He played for presidents, beggars, miners, kindergarten children, students in cafeterias, field workers, replacing concert halls with maternity wards, graveyards, nursing homes, mine shafts, passenger and military ships, watchtowers, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, as well as squares in the major cities of the world, traveling more than 4 million kilometers with his guitar.

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.

This movie depicts two distant worlds that are almost untouchable. One is a world of Balkan countries where professionals are negligent, stubborn and unreliable. The other is a world of “unbearable routine and pose of the Borganism of the European administration”. Those who receive European money can hardly cope with the administrative obligations required of them. Those on the other side cannot stand the casual attitude of the beneficiaries. What is it that the EU really wants us to change so that we can become the part of the “European family”? This film answers this question through a moving personal story. It’s the personal story of all of us.

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.

A man with a black flag in his hands leads a large group of people. The masses obey the leader's commands despite the fact that he is leading them into an abyss. However, the flag he carries is tied to a tree and from the collapsing table only the leader is saved, climbing the flag.

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.

The prolonged economic uncertainty forced even the local funeral service workers to explore various shortcuts to get more work for their parlors, which sometimes includes maintaining dubious connections with the local hospital staff. Zoki, one of the funeral parlour workers in Shtip (mid-size town in Macedonia), a charming and positive family man, is faced with many challenges while getting work for his company. But, the increased disloyal and dishonest competition started breaking Zoki’s spirit and have left him wondering if money is everything in life, after all?

The film circles around our lonely girl Ema and her friends. Not long after she gets caught up in the world of drugs, Ema finally figures out who she is and what she wants to do. Tough ride for her best friend Marko, running after her and trying to make sure she doesn't jump over the cliff.

The film is inspired and is an adaptation of the story "Forgiveness" by Blaze Koneski. We follow the pagan custom, the ritual with masks on the occasion of the Feast of Forgiveness, through the dream of a child who is obsessed with the severe illness of his sister.

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.

Fantastic love between two billboards...

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

A short graduation film.