Senko Velinov

Macedonia is a small country, in the heart of the Balkans, which for five centuries was under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire. The action of the film "To the Hilt" takes place in the years of the general collapse and "free fall", after the Macedonian uprising of 1903 which was extinguished in blood. The story is a love quadrangle between an uncompromising idealist rebel, a merciless Turkish officer, an opportunist rich man's son returning home after his studies in Europe and a lucid and open minded European woman, who flirts with the three men and puts in train a series of events with dire consequences, that she could hardly imagine. The film is a harsh and romantic story in which the eternal Macedonian cause for own identity and independence is seen through the prism of relativity of the ideas of freedom, justice, love, sacrifice, and treason.

Macedonian TV drama.

Macedonian TV drama.

Named symbolically after an ornamental flowering tree, Magnolia follows a middle-aged literature professor over the course of a late summer afternoon. Torn between the past and a present in which she has not yet found a place for herself, she has been leading a stagnant life overburdened with everyday work. A single phone-call proves enough to interrupt her vegetative state - opening up a world of memories that disconcert and haunt her.

A story about the priest Stefan, the trials he faces and the eternal struggle between good and evil.

A film about the life and work of the Macedonian dissident Dragan Bogdanovski, one of the most famous Macedonian political emigrants after 1945. His contemporaries speak about Dragan Bogdanovski, as well as documents, daily press, and photographs. The film uses both live action sequences and authentic footage of Bogdanovski (audio and video).

A documentary film dedicated to the Macedonian holiday "Ilinden". A special look at the traditional cavalry march organized on the occasion of the celebration of "Mechkin Kamen". The ceremonies at the start of the march, the places where the cavalry moves and statements by the participants for whom this holiday is synonymous with defiance, feat and dignity of the Macedonian struggle for independence and statehood.

Through fragments of the life of Boris and his son Matej, the film is about the conflict of generations, the gap created by the ideological coloration that one has and the other does not have. Political prisoner Boris, after spending several years in prison, returns home. After the divorce with his wife, in his apartment now live his son Matej, a grown man who is trying to earn his living as a musician, his girlfriend Mira and a hitchhiker that Matej found on the road.