A documentary about the dervishes in the Rufai Tekke, in the Skopje neighborhood of Gazi Baba. Through interviews, we learn about the history of the Tekke, built in 1818. The philosophy of life and tradition of the Rufai Dervishes originate from the Ottoman era and are passed down through generations, like a legacy.
Short documentary about the first football competition in Macedonia.
In the constant and cruel struggle of man to master nature, he will begin by destroying his greatest ally. An authentic story about a lesser-known profession that begins where the asphalt ends. In a mountainous setting, decorated with a variety of plants and home to numerous insects, birds and animals, man comes to bring unrest to the long-tamed bowels of the earth and disturbs the primordial peace of nature with the roar of explosives and the roar of machines.
The life of newspapers begins with their release from the press and their arrival in the hands of buyers – readers, regular consumers of political, entertainment, and even sports columns. Pensioners read newspapers with their first morning coffee, people rushing to work read them on buses. Everyone reads their own newspaper, and some, sneaking in, someone else's. The newspaper is a constant companion at every moment, on vacation, in hairdressers, while babysitting and walking small children in the park...
The documentary follows the life path of Blaga Micanova, who as a young village girl, growing up through work actions leaves the village and becomes the first woman in Macedonia to work with a bulldozer.
The question whether the punk is dead is constantly thrown around, as well as what is punk and if this or that is punk enough. "A Day to Be Happy" is a movie in the shape of a testimony about the constant fight of few musical individuals not to be put in the bin where music has some purpose, some genre, some goal or some fee.
Perhaps the richest collection of Macedonian musical heritage is carefully preserved, digitized and archived in the home of the Endendijk family in Sust, the Netherlands. The rich musical collection, collected throughout their lives, is the legacy that the Dutch couple plans to pass on to someone in Macedonia. For years, they have been living with the dilemma of whether there is an appropriate institution to take care of this heritage, given that historical archives are not properly preserved and some are lost forever. The film follows one family's struggle to preserve a part of Macedonian history.
Although he was only forty-four when he died, Igor Isakovski left behind sixteen published books, ten of which are poetry collections. He was not only a prolific author, a tireless translator from English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, he was also the founder of "Blesok" cultural institution and publishing house. Igor was the creator of "Blesok" electronic magazine, one of the oldest electronic magazines on culture in Europe; via it, as a pioneer and visionary, he spread the Macedonian culture in the world, and brought the world culture to Macedonia.
Joseph Bagheri, who was self-taught and learned to read and write at the age of 18, is one of the last revivalists. He is one of the most significant figures of the 19th century, a period of national renewal: Bagheri rose as a hero against five centuries of Ottoman slavery, fighting for freedom and national dignity.
Celebration of Labor Day, May 1st. While Skopje is decorated with flags and banners on the occasion of the holiday and the city is deserted, the picnic areas are full of people who have fun in a variety of ways; then, after the holiday, they leave the nature polluted with waste.
The film tells the story of the mating of the famous Sharplaninа dogs, which turns into a real life-and-death struggle. Only the strongest survive in this struggle and manage to continue the breed.
In the spring of 1948, after the Second World War, a tragedy of large proportions took place in the southern part of the Balkans. As a result of the Civil War in Greece, over 28,000 children between age of 2 and 14, with tears in their eyes, were separated from their parents and siblings and transferred to various East European countries, to be saved from the consequences of the war. Growing up in group homes and camps across Eastern Europe, far away from their families, they carried with them the burden of the memories to all those events. With the assistance of Red Cross they searched for their lost ones over the years. The film portrays the testimonials from some of these 28,000 children refugees who were evacuated from their homes in northern Greece between 1948 and 1949 during the Greek Civil War.
The film is about the Dervish ritual on the day of spring, March 22. Every year this Muslim sect performs this ritual in Prizren and according to their belief, the year begins with the arrival of spring and they have to tease the gods for spring to come.
A film about one of the oldest preserved crafts in the Balkans - the coloring of wool rug covers, which is still cultivated in the village of Virovo in the city of Demir Hisar. This craft is carried out with the help of natural resources as the terrain of the village is hydrographic - located between mountain streams.
Levi is an old innovator who is too shy to make contact with Marie, a woman from his neighborhood, and comes up with the idea of constructing a machine.
Two hearts, one battle, endless love.
From Saint Paul to Mother Teresa, this film traces Christian life in Macedonia from the days of the late antique period, through the medieval Ohrid theological school and monastic life, to the meaning of Christianity in the lives of the young Macedonian generation of today. Journeys through archeological sites, Mother Teresa’s birthplace of Skopje, and Orthodox and Roman-Catholic cloisters unite detail and memory to form a meditative portrait of the diversity of Macedonia’s civilizations and cultural influences.
Documentary movie about tabacco's pickers life in Prilep, Macedonia.
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.
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.
