Macedonian Saga

Treska Factory

Through footage of the furniture factory Treska is shown the progress and development of the wood industry as well as the production of furniture for mass consumption.

The Last Nomads

In the mountains of Macedonia, members of the Karakachani tribe still live today. They have been here for several centuries. And ever since they can remember, they have been herders. In fact, they are among the last nomadic herders in Europe. Many things have changed around them, and even today, seemingly, they continue the same life...

The Longest Journey

In March 1903, amidst the crumbling Ottoman Empire, Macedonia remains unliberated, with its revolutionary movement burgeoning. In retaliation for supporting freedom fighters, the Turks besiege a wedding, capturing over two hundred villagers and sentencing them to lengthy prison terms. These prisoners are then transported to Asia Minor, enduring severe hardships and humiliation through the desert, with many perishing along the way before reaching their final destination in October 1908.

I Walk Down a Road, I Ask for Directions

A film dedicated to life in Mariovo, one of the most passive areas of Macedonia, not only due to the scarcity of natural opportunities for existence but also due to the isolation of this area.

Times, Waters

A Macedonian village has always struggled to find ways to bring water to its arid land - a struggle that may be won when a native son returns from America with the idea of setting up a watermill. Such an enterprise gets two villages in conflict over water rights, threatening to permanently turn people against each other. In the past, the territory had been occupied by the Italian armies, and a flashback shows a massacre in one village, a revelation that disaster has been a part of their history, in one way or another. No matter how he argues, the young man who advocated the watermill loses out to the builders of a dam - something that does not bode well for the low-lying village.

Skopje, Problems with the Public Services

After the earthquake that happened in Skopje on 26-th of July 1963, a lot of problems appeared with the public services, which were nearly completely destroyed by it. The film shows the damages and their quantity.

Border

According to a pre-arranged day and place, the border between two countries, the People’s Republic of Macedonia and the People’s Republic of Bulgaria, opens for one day. This time, no travel documents or other documents are needed to see relatives and friends on both sides of the border. It is another opportunity to meet or another attempt to trace the separated. That day carries a lot of sadness in itself, for the elderly, it will perhaps be the last meeting, the mother will never find her son again. The day passes and the border is here again, with all its seriousness.

A Shot

Youth, which courage is always without prejudice, in Skopje in time of Bulgarian occupation in WW2, desire freedom for the people, resolves to several actions, including the biggest, to assassinate the police chief Emanuel Machkov...

Days of Temptation

In 1918, after the end of the Balkan Wars and the First World War, hundreds of Macedonians immigrated to Bulgaria. Among them there were pro-Bulgarian Macedonians who wanted to exploit the emigrants for their own political purposes. A number of decent freedom fighters were eliminated. The victim of one of the assassins in Sofia was Djorche Petrov. His assassin is a young boy who doesn't even know that he is shooting dead the man who is one of the last real fighters for the freedom of Macedonia. By discovering that he has been unknowingly involved in the pro-Bulgarian organization and has been used for an execution of this vile act, it means the death sentence for the young boy.

The Birds Are Coming

A feature-documentary story about the way of fishing on Lake Dojran, with the help of cormorant birds. It talks about the connection between people and birds that are the best workers and irreplaceable assistants to fishermen. When the birds are gone, the fishermen are sad, but when the birds come, the fishing can begin.

14th Football Cup Final: Vardar – Varteks

A depiction of the 1961 ‘Marshal Tito Cup’ football match, which was played in Belgrade between the Skopje club Vardar and Varteks from Varaždin.

A Wedding in Miravci

A documentary showing the wedding customs in the village of Miravci, near Gevgelija.

Elemental Force

A documentary film about the great floods in Macedonia, filmed from 16 to 18.11.1962. The film shows the catastrophic floods in November 1962 that hit Macedonia, when the largest Macedonian rivers: Vardar, Treska and Crna overflowed their banks. The film shows footage during and after the floods and the efforts of the people in the fight against the raging water element and in saving the endangered lives and material wealth.

Dawn in the Fields

A short film about the life of the peasant Mitre, who, unable to complete his agricultural work on time because he has only one ox, asks for help from his fellow villager Kostadin. He, in turn, is carried away by envy and malice, and using the moment when Mitre is tired from the midday heat, spreads lies to the villagers in the middle of the village. Mitre restrainedly and consciously overcomes the lies and leaves along the village alley...

Between The Two Farewells

A documentary about the construction work on the Bratstvo-Edinstvo highway, the shifts of the work brigades, the successes on the route, new acquaintances and the joy of the foremen after a successfully completed shift.

The City on the River Vardar

A documentary showing several aspects of the author's view of life in Skopje.

The Magdalene Sisters

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

Love in the Time of Cholera

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

Ken Park

Teen skater Ken Park (nicknamed Krap Nek; his name spelled and pronounced backward) kills himself at a Visalia skate park; his death bookends the lives of four other young people who knew him: Shawn, the most conventional; Tate brims with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother; and Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim.

Coach Carter

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due to poor academic results.

Carrie

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she unleashes a horrifying chaos on everyone, leaving nothing but destruction in her wake.

There Will Be Blood

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Like Stars on Earth

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

Half Nelson

Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a startling discovery of his secret life, causing a tenuous bond between the two that could either end disastrously or provide a catalyst of hope.

Joyless Street

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

The History Boys

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores, a grossly out-numbered history teacher, and a headmaster obsessed with results, the boys attempt to pass.

Bringing Out the Dead

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

The Tree of Life

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.

The River Wild

Gail and Tom Hartman are struggling to stay together and decide to take a white-water rafting holiday adventure in Montana for their son Roarke's 10th birthday, only to meet up with a pair of mysterious men whose desperation grows, turning their vacation into a nightmare.