The Shine of the Star

The film is a high-concept project with five stories exploring the themes of motherhood and pregnancy, directed by women filmmakers from five former Yugoslav republics. “Croatian Story” follows an anguished painter who must decide whether or not to keep one of her unborn twins, diagnosed with Down syndrome. “Serbian Story” finds an expectant mother in the same emergency room with a charming killer. “Bosnia-Herzegovina Story” centers on a financially strapped Sarajevo family whose son?s lover is pregnant. “Macedonian Story” unfolds in a clinic where a drug addict struggles to keep her baby, and “Slovenian Story” ends the omnibus on a humorous note with a nun who finds her own way to immaculate conception.

A girl wakes up on a park bench. She doesn't remember anything. Filimon Varadinov, an elderly gentleman, tries to help her remember who she is and where she comes from...

A woman, 35, became a human-trafficking victim and spent 15 years of her life being forced to work in the sex industry. And she never heard about her daughter who is 17 now.

A documentary film that divs into the unknown world that hasn't been discovered so far - the closed world of the traditional Albanian woman in Macedonia, especially the woman who lives in the Albanian villages, located just few kilometers from Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, but, at the same time, located in the core of the Macedonian drug channel that spread drugs all over Europe.

On the night of May 10, 1998, 18-year-old Toni Mandza escaped from prison in order to kill all the people from his hit list. Gevgelija, a quiet small town in southern Macedonia is suddenly not so quiet any more.

Eight single men, full of hope, departed on a long journey to Moscow to pursue luck. How strong is their faith that salvation could be in a woman? And what could a woman do for love? The Pursuit of Luck is a documentary film consisting of three stories (Hope, Faith and Love) in which the destinies of the main protagonists intertwine in their efforts to find happiness.

Second Chance interweaves three stories of three women living in the same block of flats, creating a kaleidoscopic observation of the experience of being a mother and the self-sacrifice involved in bringing another life into this world. At a time of absurdities as Macedonia teeters on the brink of civil war, each of these women struggle to find meaning in their existence, each facing their own demons while trying to preserve their humanity.