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Milcho Manchevski

Born August 18, 1959 · Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia (age 67)

Milcho Manchevski (Macedonian: Милчо Манчевски) is a New York–based Macedonian film director, photographer and artist. He wrote and directed the feature films Before the Rain (1994), Dust (2001), Shadows (2007) and Mothers (2011), over 50 short forms, including Thursday (2013), the experimental film 1.73 (1984) and the music video Tennessee (1991) for Arrested Development. He has also been a direc…

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Dust

MovieActionDrama

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.

Bikini Moon

Bikini Moon · 2017

A charismatic vet with mental issues captures the attention of a documentary film crew who are ready to exploit her story for their own shot at independent movie fame in this very modern, urban fairy tale set amidst a fractured ideal of family.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded · 2013

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

MovieDramaDocumentary

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Before the Rain

Before the Rain · 1994

Before the Rain

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.

Shadows

Shadows · 2007

MovieDramaMystery

A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...

Tough Granny

Tough Granny · 1985

One night a grandmother accidentally stays locked in a department store. The path from fear to pleasure due to the new situation changes the grandmother as a person.

Vanja - Born in Pain

Vanja - Born in Pain · 2015

Vanja - Born in Pain

MovieDocumentaryMusic

A documentary about the life and career of Vanja Lazarova, the greatest female performer of Macedonian traditional songs, the first Macedonian singer to record phonograms for PHILIPS, and the only Macedonian singer to perform in front of Queen Elizabeth the Second and Sir Winston Churchill at the Royal Albert Hall.

Kaymak

MovieComedyDrama

A wealthy young couple has a different lifestyle than a neighboring middle-aged couple, but both face intimate issues that impact their private lives.

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Dust

MovieActionDrama

Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay back a debt, and gradually grows closer to her. In the Macedonian story, the brothers end up fighting for opposite sides of a revolution, with the religious Elijah taking up sides with the Ottoman sultan and gunslinger Luke joining "the Teacher" , a Macedonian rebel.

Writer

Bikini Moon

Bikini Moon · 2017

A charismatic vet with mental issues captures the attention of a documentary film crew who are ready to exploit her story for their own shot at independent movie fame in this very modern, urban fairy tale set amidst a fractured ideal of family.

Director

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

Venice 70: Future Reloaded · 2013

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

MovieDramaDocumentary

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Director

Before the Rain

Before the Rain · 1994

Before the Rain

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.

Writer

Shadows

Shadows · 2007

MovieDramaMystery

A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...

Director

Tough Granny

Tough Granny · 1985

One night a grandmother accidentally stays locked in a department store. The path from fear to pleasure due to the new situation changes the grandmother as a person.

Writer

Vanja - Born in Pain

Vanja - Born in Pain · 2015

Vanja - Born in Pain

MovieDocumentaryMusic

A documentary about the life and career of Vanja Lazarova, the greatest female performer of Macedonian traditional songs, the first Macedonian singer to record phonograms for PHILIPS, and the only Macedonian singer to perform in front of Queen Elizabeth the Second and Sir Winston Churchill at the Royal Albert Hall.

Kaymak

MovieComedyDrama

A wealthy young couple has a different lifestyle than a neighboring middle-aged couple, but both face intimate issues that impact their private lives.

Director

Good People

Good People · 2026

MovieDocumentary

A feature-length documentary experiment about survivors and heroes of a horrific illegal nightclub fire in a small Macedonian town that killed 63 mostly young people.

Director

Willow

Three Macedonian women have to contend with control over their bodies, tradition, loyalty, pregnancy and adoption. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggle to become mothers makes them unlikely heroines. The three bittersweet stories, one medieval, two contemporary, mirror and contrast one another, exploring themes of love, trust and motherhood.

Director

The End of Time

The End of Time · 2017

The End of Time

MovieDocumentary

An experimental film about that one hypnotic moment on a regular, unassuming Tuesday when one realizes that time has stopped and the universe has been sucked into a single smile.

Director

Sister Brother Manhole Cover

Sister Brother Manhole Cover · 2026

Sister Brother Manhole Cover

MovieDramaComedy

A thriller-comedy about siblings stealing busts throughout Skopje.

Director

The Tenant

The Tenant · 1981

A man moves to a new house and through the window notices two naked lovers in the house next door.

Director

Mothers

Mothers · 2011

MovieDramaMystery

Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.

Writer

The Wire

The Wire · 2002

SeriesCrimeDrama

Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

Director