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Slovenian director Petra Seliskar investigates the role of ideology in her personal family history by means of interviews with her paternal grandfather, her Macedonian boyfriend Brand's maternal grandmother and his Cuban grandmother on his father's side. Illustrated by archive footage and home movies, her voice-over describes her family's personal story, Yugoslavia under Tito, and the recent war, accompanied by some particularly shocking footage. The nature shots and the alternation of classical, popular and revolutionary music occasionally lend the stories a light-hearted tone.
A music documentary based on the work of Slovenian multihyphenate artist Frane Milčinski Ježek. His satyrical poems and songs from the 1950s and 60s today sound more urgent and topical than ever, and are covered by musicians ranging from Finnish avant-garde accordion player Kimmo Pohjonen, to legendary Croatian songstress Josipa Lisac, to the former Bad Seed Hugo Race. The music is produced by indie rock icon Cris Eckman (The Walkabouts), and expertly mixed with archive footage of Jezek's own performances and skits, creating a touching and thought-provoking narrative.
Filmed over a period of 20 years, Body is a sensitive and intimate exploration of the extraordinary life and intricate inner world of a woman who fights with her indomitable spirit to resist a series of rare auto-immune diseases.
Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela has enough tasty portions to please audiences. Amongst Coira's expansive ensemble are aging street musician Edu, a pair awaking from a one-night stand, a businessman visiting his closeted homosexual brother and a lonely housewife, Sol. Victor and Sol are two of 18 MEALS' most fascinating characters as they each hide something - his sexuality, her depression - from those around them. Best of all is Pedro Alsono as Vladimir, a local celebrity actor who makes a meal for a mystery woman who never arrives. Who hasn't gone to a lot of trouble to do something extra special for someone just to have it go unappreciated?
Days of Madness portray an incredible odyssey of two mentally diverse and unjustly rejected people who are learning to accept it, faced with the blindness of the society and the health system that made them addicts.
The beginnings of the band "Bernajs Propaganda" through the daily challenge of living for music are shown along with a depiction of the underground history of the Skopje rock and roll scene, for its authentic urban sensibility and inexhaustible creative energy.
The story about how K-15, the most famous comedy show in Macedonia, was created.
While the children are enjoying their summer holidays, Basri, 8, heads off to the Macedonian mountains to join his brothers. They are the shepherds of hundreds of sheep, helped by huge dogs that protect them from wolves. For Basri, it's freedom, while his teenage brothers dream of elsewhere.
The story in the movie takes place in the vicinity of the Mara River (Kenya and Tanzania). A baby wildebeest and a baby buffalo were born nearby. At the end of their lives they die beside each other.
A documentary film that tells the story of the ancient city of Ohrid and the locality of Plaošnik through a virtual journey.
The members of the Macedonian hip-hop crew Chista okolina (Clean Environment) rap some of their tracks a capella.
A film following the beginning of the human race to its end.
N.E.P. or The Stones God Threw on the Barricades was made as an independent project by TV Bordoshbagn for A1 Independent Television in Skopje. The film is of an undefined genre and speaks about the Third World lies, which renowned 'well-intentioned' missionaries, founders of certain foundations and institutes, have promoted in the countries of the former socialist regime, especially in Eastern Europe. This project is an outsider's look at the paradox about the secret beauty of power and the submission to that power. N.E.P. is a video reflection on the aesthetics of the transformation of power, looked at from the point of view of the ordinary man in the so-called transitional countries who, after five years of living in 'freedom' still can't understand why the most democratic system of them all – parliamentary democracy – is better than the one before.
A poetic journey through the Serengeti National Park and Tanzania in Africa. The endemic flora and fauna, as well as the beautiful natural beauties are a blessing for the human soul, for the traveler, but his presence seems to represent pollution of the environment. Even the path along which man moves, which is created by himself, seems to be an intruder in these wild landscapes. How far should human intervention in nature and the environment in which he lives go? What is the limit beyond which human presence represents a violation of cosmic harmony?
On the heights of a mountain in North Macedonia, in the midst of a flock of 600 sheep being watched over by huge dogs, stands a refuge. Children's laughter escapes from the precarious shelter. They are a brotherhood, ranging from ages eight to twenty. When they are not hard at work, they are playing and discussing the meaning of life. Is their future really here?
Lena is a young girl starting and ending her day alone, in empty apartment, walking on the empty streets, working in empty studio, living in empty town. On the same day of her marriage proposal, her boyfriend got hit by a bus and dies. The accident completely changes her life and reality. She lives in memory of her boyfriend and nothing else matters for her. During her everyday obligations she doesn’t notice anything around her.She is alone.
The agent Ansarov is drawn into the strange, even weird investigation about a number of murders. The victims are agents of various foreign intelligence services. Thanks to his contacts, he finds out all these agents were involved in cruel games concentrated around the search and exploitation of a very rare and precious mineral, even more valuble considering the fact that it is used for producing some very exclusive narcotic. At the same time, the scientific elite is hoping that with this mineral, they can penetrate ther dimensions of the anti-matter. It's been established that the mineral (the Green Diamond) has its own kind of conscience (the aspect of The Cosmic Mind).
A young girl with a difficult past runs away from Italy with her overweight girlfriend. An "on the road" story set in Europe in which the two girls, having joined a circus of young artists, are forced to see their dreams come true.
Earth to earth, water to water. The body weight of a newborn child is up to 85 percent water, but in adulthood, the ratio can be cut into half. In a way, people dry up as they grow older. In Claudia Tosi’s documentary, people drink water, watch the rain and wait for their death. The Perfect Circle depicts a man and a woman, Ivano and Meris, who spend their final days at a hospice in the hills of Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy. Their illnesses are in the terminal stage and they know that death is only a matter of time. But the ever-nearing end may fleetingly be forgotten, like when they close their eyes and get lost in the music – until the bodies being carried out next door once again remind them of the inevitable. Death also becomes a part of life for the patients’ loved ones, who want to spend the last available moments with the soon to be departed.
A fictional depiction of an ancient pagan custom for healing a sick child in the region of Kriva Palanka.
