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Jose is an extravagant and eccentric sculptor who must create a work of art to captivate the jury to keep his workshop. Alongside his assistant and son Bruno, a teenager who does not share the artistic view of his father, two individuals learn the definition of family.

An experimental video-diary encompassing the last few years.

A documentary about the Balkan country.

Documentary created by Hacha y Machete (@hacha.machete) that reconstructs the historical memory of the events of July 29, focusing on the spontaneous popular uprising in Venezuela in response to one of the most blatant electoral frauds in recent history, for which the Venezuelan government blamed an alleged non-existent fraud from North Macedonia.

Exploring the Greek kingdom of Macedonia. Macedonia: A Civilization Uncovered looks at the extensive work of archaeologist Maolis Andronicos and his painstaking uncovering of a Macedonian settlement, and his attempts to prove the society was a sophisticated center of culture rather, than an outpost of classical Greece.

For almost three decades, one word has stood between two nations: Macedonia. A subject of a bitter dispute between Greece and the now renamed Republic of North Macedonia.

A sanitized white kitchen, vegetables, a sharp blade. The slaughter is coming.

This film was made on the occasion of the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Ilinden (St. Ellias Day) Rebellion. This panoramic film depicts the most significant historic figures and places situated in the Aegian, Pirin and Vardar regions.

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.

A documentary showing the stay of the delegation of the People's Republic of Macedonia in Pirin Macedonia, i.e. in the People's Republic of Bulgaria. Footage filmed in Melnik, Bansko, Sveti Vrach, Rozhdenski Monastery.

Documentary about frescoes to be found in several churches in Macedonia.

Showing the boom in agriculture in Macedonia reflected in good yields of cotton, poppy, fruit, etc. New factories and self-management, housing estates, schools and cultural centers.

A report on the cultural life in Macedonia shown through the celebration of the fifth anniversary of the Macedonian National Theater, concerts, the puppet theater, the Theater in Strumica, the Macedonian Philharmonic Orchestra and the performance of the choir of the Cultural and Artistic Community "Vlado Tasevski" for the railway workers on the occasion of October 11th.

Two friends are going on an adventure trip through Macedonia. Starting from Skopje, with the ultimate goal to reach the Prespa Lake, and climb a few mountains. They are following the notes from a travelogue written by other two friends that walked the same route in 1969.

A travel documentary about the ship "Macedonia" which sets sail from the port of Rijeka, travels along the Mediterranean Sea stopping at Alexandria, Genova, Marseilles, Algiers and arrives at the final destination in New York.

Unknown history of one of the oldest countries, and the partitioning of it, with no regards for the people who lived on their land for many centuries! How Macedonia became Greek after The Balkan Wars!

This is the portrait of a young accordionist in the 21st century. It is a film about the joys of life and survival strategies on the forgotten stage of Macedonia. This is the story of a 17-year-old accordionist, who is searching for her place in the world. Corridors are her practice rooms – at home and at school. The whole year she practices diligently and passionately on her old Supita accordion. Obviously, she wasn’t given the name Emilija, meaning „the keen one“, for nothing. She wants to become a professional accordionist, but for this she needs a new accordion. Something that is unattainable for her poor family. But the family‘s poverty also releases their creativity and Imagination. Her father, an art teacher, begins to work as a bodyguard, while Emilija‘s mother illegally sells sweets in the family garden. This is a film about becoming an adult in one of Europe‘s more desolate corners.

The arrival of the young teacher Damjan in one village in western Macedonia shakes the usual daily life of its inhabitants who belong to different religions.

At the end of the year 1942 and the start of 1943, to stop spreading the revolution in county of Bitola, bulgarian occupiers are reinforcing the persecutions and the acts of violence on civil population.

The film is the story of girl Cveta who was abducted by the Ottoman bey and taken away in his harem. Bey is trying to embrace Islam, but its persistence, and its neighbors led beloved Spasa, and beloved local priest, assisted by diplomats of the great powers manage to free themselves. On the day of her wedding comes Bey with his army to try to get it back. Cveta dies, Spasa killing Bey and and goes to the committees.

The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.

When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.

15-year-old Ahmet, from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.

The military action of a Greek officer, Pavlos Melas, for the liberation of Macedonia from the Turks and Bulgarians. A story stick to the facts for the heroism and sacrifice of the Greeks. Pavlos Melas is the symbol of the struggle for the independence of Macedonia in Greece.

As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.

The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.

The story takes place in Ohrid, at the end of XI century. Slavic population gives resistance to Byzantium and the Christian dogma leads to the persecutions and murders. The villages are plagued with outbreak of smallpox, and all the people with the symptoms were thrown into the lime. The film follows the fate of Abraham's family as the story of survival in the Balkan intersections.

A mild political satire about a peculiar friendship between a lonesome monkey and an (impoverished) zoo warden, and about an upside-down world in transition as seen by a chimpanzee.

Told in a very abstract and poetic way, this love story – set in very unusual circumstances – is inspired by the refugee crisis, in which Macedonia played the unfortunate role of a transit country.

After her son's tragic death, Helena abducts her employee, Lucian, and travels with him and her husband to scatter her son's ashes in Macedonia. Meanwhile, Lucian's lover struggles to provide for their son and break free from her dictatorial father.

"Skoplje '63" is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko Bulajić about the 1963 Skopje earthquake (Skoplje, per film title, is the Serbo-Croatian spelling of Skopje). The filming started three days after the earthquake and lasted for four months. After that, Bulajić spent 12 months editing the footage at Jadran Film studios.

A promising debut feature tells the story of a young woman returning from America to discover the realities of life in Macedonia, that looks as if it will explode with all the soldiers, corrupt crooks and terrorist idealists.

Drama of the life of a young man of today torn between his desires and the opportunities of his environment.

The story takes place in March of 1943 during transportations of Jews from Skopje. Nikola is a surgeon who was taken his working license away, and spends evening hours at the local bar where German officers, along with Bulgarian officer Simeonov, play Russian roulette with their gun pointed at prisoner's head. After suicide of one German mayor, Nikola and the prisoner escape.

The inhabitants of a small village in a backward area of Macedonia earn their living by sending their men abroad in search of employment. Three young girls, named Elica, Maria and Nikolina live and work as schoolteachers in the village. Each of them try to make sense of their lives, in that situation where it is imposed on them. In the village the greatest problem is the supply of water. Spring water is carried by Marko from the distant mountains Marko is falls in love with the poor girl Kate...

High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to compromise with their consciences and their art, (as normally happens here in the Balkans), or whether to preserve Katerina's message.

A young painter comes to the monastery where he's supposed to paint Virgin Mary. There he meets and falls in love with a beautiful novice named Agripina, eventually modeling his artwork by her appearance. This gets him in trouble with the church canons and Mother Superior, and he leaves.

Forced into an early retirement, veteran detective Pepi (Pepi Mircevski) is burdened with showing his younger replacement, Muto (Sasko Kocev) how to become a proper detective.

Rebecca is a painter struggling to break through in the local art scene, and she has set her sights on befriending Amelia and Colin, a power couple and owners of a trendy, on-the-rise gallery. For a birthday present, the broke Rebecca gives Colin a coupon offering to cook dinner for the couple, and when they call in the favor, Rebecca has to decide how far she's willing to go to stay in their good graces - and whether their graces are even all that good.

Two sisters come home for the holidays. Awkward conversation turns to headlocks and heimlichs.

Halle needs to move out of her ex's place but she's without car, broke, haunted by visions of her dead sister, and she keeps seeing aliens everywhere???

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