Vlado Jovanovski
A patriarchal father from an isolated Macedonian village has to face the greatest challenge in his life. We witness the moment that shatters all his perceived reality and challenges all his beliefs. Will he be able to overcome and accept the new reality or are we about to witness a great tragedy?
Alexander Philipopoulos, a famous journalist in a French political magazine, is returning to his birthplace in northern Greece, looking for the truth about his father Lazarus, who lived as political emigrant in the neighboring country of Macedonia.
Kosta and Ula are a married couple who decide to adapt the family house to a boarding house. Costa's brother, Tony, manages to find funding to open the boarding house. Mile is the eldest brother who is opposed to the existence of a guesthouse with precise rules. Receptionist Jelena is the only employee in the boarding school and is "a girl for everything. Jelena often has conflicts with the Ula because of her sexuality and a spanking relationship with Costa as well as with the guest in the boarding house. Mario is a Croat, a Buddhist. He is a chef at a boarding house who does not know how to cook, there is just because he is Tony's partner. Jelena helps Mario to order food from nearby localities.
Eight-year-old Zoran is the hero of this story set in Skopje during the German occupation of the city in World War II. Through his eyes, we experience all the cruelty, poverty and suffering of wartime. A love affair between his Macedonian mother and a German officer will help his family get through the hard times…
Vladica lost the only thing that mattered to him - an amateur karate championship. Now he's back in his home town looking for a job, love and redemption.
A tale of family and loyalty, love and loss, betrayal and redemption. As the Mob destroys the life of a big family and leaves them on the brink of survival, a powerful, yet secret love, burns between Marko (a gangster) and Angela - two high school sweethearts. Good fortune smiles on the family (a bohemian collective of lovable eccentrics) as they find a long-lost treasure, but Angela betrays them in the name of love by stealing it in order to save Marko's life from the Mob. In the end, everyone reaps what they sow, and their love ends inauspiciously.
Jovan has just graduated from literature and struggles to finish his first novel. He decides to go to his friend's country estate in order to dedicate himself to writing in peace. At the estate, which is situated in obscured mountain's landscape, live farmers - one very strange family which doesn't have contact with civilization. They are illiterate, they live in unclearly defined sexual relations and they are devoted to nature. Zeko, head of the family, is sadist authority whose word, will and unique world-view can't be challenged by family members. Jovan slowly gets used to life with them, and decides to stay with them a little longer. But, it's not on him to decide how much longer.
At the end of summer on Balkan has great drought. The migratory birds who are thirsty and cold are dying on the way to their home .Two people, father and son, are trying to make money by searching sources of water, which is old family tradition. One day they will find the gold cable. The son will cut the cable, although his father says no, but the cable was powered the Sun and the Moon. While they dig, stars like lampions are disappearing one by one. The Moon disappears last...
"Far from home" is inspired by the problem of the museum-cultural tradition on the soil of Macedonia and the foreign military monuments, military landmarks and military buildings on our territory from the beginning of the twentieth century.
A young man is searching for the war to free his country and establish freedom. Instead of war he finds the love of his life.
The search for the Secret Book of the Bogomils brings Guy Chevalier (Thierry Fremont) to Macedonia. There, he is haunted by the spirit of the Gardian of the book and followed by unknown forces. Little by little, he starts loosing his mind and his identity.
A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.
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.
There is a myth of a bus that traveled every day from Skopje, Macedonia to Belgrade, Yugoslavia during the NATO bombing in 1999. A similar bus is depicted in Veta. There are no specifics to the story. It is the creator's response to the horrors that have haunted the Balkans for the past ten years. The film does not offer an answer or take sides, it concentrates on the psychology of war and feeling of no exit.
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
A true story about tragic love of the couple who found themselves at the different sides of the border in 1948.
The arrival of the young teacher Damjan in one village in western Macedonia shakes the usual daily life of its inhabitants who belong to different religions.
