Ambientada en un aislado pueblo de montaña en la Macedonia del siglo XIX, la película sigue a una joven que es secuestrada y luego transformada en bruja por un espíritu ancestral.
Tres trágicas historias de amor que se entrelazan para ilustrar los efectos devastadores de la guerra y de aquellos que, sin quererlo, se han visto obligados a participar en ella. Dos de los relatos están ambientados en Macedonia, que se encuentra al borde de la guerra civil, y el otro se sitúa en Londres.
Documental sobre la última mujer recolectora de abejas de Europa. Hatidze es una mujer cerca de la cincuentena de un pequeño pueblo en Macedonia que cría colonias de abejas en unos cestos hechos a mano que deja escondidos entre las rocas. Sin protección ni ayuda, es capaz de amansarlas para poder extraer la miel y venderla en la capital. Todo es idílico hasta que, de repente, nuevos vecinos se instalan cerca de las colmenas, estorbando su paz y la de sus abejas. Así como las abejas obreras pasan toda su vida cuidando de la abeja reina, Hatidze ha comprometido su propia vida al cuidado de su madre, con la que vive en una cabaña. La intrusión de los recién llegados, una familia con siete niños ruidosos acompañados de 150 vacas, provocará un conflicto que podría destruir la forma de vida de Hatidze para siempre.
"Skoplje '63" is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko Bulajić about the 1963 Skopje earthquake (Skoplje, per film title, is the Serbo-Croatian spelling of Skopje). The filming started three days after the earthquake and lasted for four months. After that, Bulajić spent 12 months editing the footage at Jadran Film studios.
Godina was ordered to make a short film glorifying the army, but instead made a film about making love, not war. The censors hacked it up, but he managed to save one complete copy.
Drama of the life of a young man of today torn between his desires and the opportunities of his environment.
As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
A documentary about the Balkan country.
A short film that contains short clips of the fishing method.
The story of a famous group of Macedonian terrorists that opposed Ottoman repression at the beginning of 20th century.
RROMANI SOUL traces the true origin of the Rroma people. Through rituals, song and dance we follow emblematic figure and "Queen of the Gypsies" Esma Redzepova to Macedonia, south of France and finally to India. The film reveals for the first time ever that the true and unique origin of the Rroma is Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh, India.
After losing his job on the first day of school, an idealistic teacher attempts to get rehired by locking his students in the classroom and forcing them to resolve a long-standing feud between their villages.
A group of Macedonian partisans are hiding away in the mountains from Bulgarian fascist authorities that occupy Macedonia.
Visión personal de los días previos a la guerra de los Balcanes a través de la historia de dos hermanos separados por el compromiso político y unidos por el destino, en una suerte de road movie que se adentra en temas tan espinosos como el terrorismo o la violencia étnica, pero también las relaciones personales.
Early Balkan footage.
A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
The inhabitants of a small village in a backward area of Macedonia earn their living by sending their men abroad in search of employment. Three young girls, named Elica, Maria and Nikolina live and work as schoolteachers in the village. Each of them try to make sense of their lives, in that situation where it is imposed on them. In the village the greatest problem is the supply of water. Spring water is carried by Marko from the distant mountains Marko is falls in love with the poor girl Kate...
The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.
Early Balkan footage.
Early Balkan footage.