Biljana Garvanlieva

Mümine is 14 and lives in the Macedonian mountains. Her family belongs to the Turkish minority. Since she was 9 years old she has worked on tobacco farms. She dreams of leaving the region and becoming a schoolteacher but because of traditional customs, a very different future awaits her.

“After the Rain” is the first documentary film made by a Macedonian director about climate change. The documentary features four women, aged between forty and eighty, who work as farmers in Macedonia. The women are of different backgrounds – Macedonian, Turkish and Albanian – and each has a different attitude towards their work on the land.

A seven-storey building in the centre of Tetovo, a city in the west of Macedonia, stands like a border between the part of the city where the Macedonian population lives and the other where the Albanian population lives. Albanians, Macedonians, Roma, Roma, Vlachs, Hungarians, Serbs and Bosnians have all lived in the same building for years and are all in some kind of silent conflict with each other, though they still lead their lives in common as neighbours.

Talented people like artists or writers who stayed have one choice only: work as seamstresses. Eriela, Beti and Vesna are seamstresses in the small town of Štip. If they wanted to afford one of their handmade blouses, it would cost them a months salary. While the women are fully employed, their men are less fortunate and find themselves unemployed after the collapse of communism. A situation with a lot of potential conflict for the couples. The men find it hard to be dependent financially on their women, when they used to proudly provide for the family.

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.

This is a feature about one discontinued and one started love, with passion and betrayal floating between them. Kata and Djidji live their own life, escaping the absurd sins of the past. But then Alavantie discovers some new clues that lead to the case in which a group of students is liquidated. One of those 5 innocent boys had a relationship with Kata. The long kept secret is finally here. The end of damnation is approaching.

A story about life of Sureya Imami - the first Albanian music teacher in Macedonia.