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| 12th Annual MACEDONIAN FILM FESTIVAL |
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| The festival will be held on October 28-29, 2017, at: Carlton Cinema Theatre - Toronto |
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RADE & DANILO SERBEDZIJA
Rade Serbedzija was born in Bunic (Korenica) in 1946. Graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He is remembered as an outstanding Peer Gynt, Don Juan, Georgij, Melkior, Oedipus, Hamlet, Leon and Richard III. He wrote and published four books of poetry and released four albums, as well as directed 12 plays.
Danilo Serbedzija was born in 1971 in Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He is a director and actor, known for Luda kuca (2005), 72 days (2010) and The Liberation of Skopje (2016).
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 LIBERATION OF SKOPJE
(Macedonian title: „Îñëîáîäóâàœå íà Ñêîï¼å”)
Showtime: October 28, 2017 - 7:30 p.m.
Genre: Feature - Drama
Released: 2016
Running time: 110 minutes
Director: Rade Serbedzija, Danilo Serbedzija
Screenplay: Rade Serbedzija, Dusan Jovanovic
Producers: Gorjan Tozija, Robert Naskov, Igor Nola, Vladimir Anastasov, Arto Halonnen, Danilo Sherbedzija
Leading roles: Rade Sherbedzija, Silvija Stojanovska, Lucija Sherbedzija, David Todosovski, Nebojsha Glogovac
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About the film:
Zoran, an eight-year old boy, is the hero of this story. It is through his eyes that we experience all the cruelty of war, poverty, suffering and images of the occupation of Skopje by the Germans in 1942 with the help of their Bulgarian allies. Zoran's father, Dushan is a member of the Partisan forces. His uncle, Gheorgiy, is also a member of the resistance and plays a part in the assassination of a high-ranking German officer, as well as in the evacuation and transport of Jews to free territories. However, he fails to save his Jewish neighbours and close friends, the Jewish family Rossman, from deportation. Zoran's little friend Renata Rossman and her family are led away by the Germans to a concentration camp. Renowned stage and screen veteran Rade Serbedzija and his son Danilo co-direct this epic adaptation of the play by Dusan Jovanovic; both also acted in the original 1980 stage production.
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TONY RADEVSKI
Tony Radevski is an independent Australian director, writer and producer of film and television.
In 2005, he co-produced the short drama In the Middle. In 2006, he completed a documentary entitled The Prodigal Son, which won Best Short Documentary at the 2006 IF Awards and Most Popular Film at the Flickerfest International Short Film Festival. In 2008, he finished work on the short animation Ephemeral, which he wrote and directed/produced with animator Jongsu Oh.
He also produced and co-illustrated the short animation Chip in 2014, which screened at TEDxSydney and won a AACTA/AFI “Social Shorts” Award for Best Independent Film. In 2015, his short animation Hole won Best Film and Best Screenplay at the 2015 MG Film Festival. It was also shortlisted as the Australian representative for the Iris Prize in Cardiff. In 2016, his short film, the black comedy “Dedo” was screened at the 11th annual Macedonian Film Festival.
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AVEC L’AMOUR
Showtime: October 29, 2017 - 5:30 p.m.
Genre: Documentary - Comedy, Drama
Released: 2017
Running time: 66 minutes
Director: Ilija Cvetkovski
Screenplay: Ilija Cvetkovski, Atanas Georgiev
Producer: Atanas Georgiev
Leading roles: Dionis Pashlakov, Grozdanka Pashlakova
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About the film:
Dionis is a retiring biology teacher. With a passion, and a dream.
He owns over a hundred rusty old cars, most of which don’t even work, and every night he sleeps next to them, dreaming of turning this unusual collection into a museum. But his passion and his dreams come with a price.
Every night his younger wife sleeps alone in their home, and by day she makes ends meet by making wedding and birthday cakes. While dreaming of the museum, surrounded by his decaying cars, it is exactly in these piles of rust that Dionis finds the joy of existence. “Avec l’amour” is a simple story, but also a larger than life portrayal of the universal human saga represented through this old man.
A film about a retiring professor, his wife, his passion and his fantasy of opening up a museum in a small uneventful town. Its love, its life.
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OH, MY LOVE
(Macedonian title: „Àõ, Šóáîâ ìî¼à”)
Showtime: October 28, 2017 - 5:30 p.m.
Genre: Feature - Romantic comedy
Released: 2017
Running time: 104 minutes
Director: Nikola-Kole Angelovski
Screenplay: Nikola-Kole Angelovski
Producers: Goran Stojilkovic, Dimitar Nikolov, Vladimir Stojcevski
Leading roles: Nina Dean, Atanas Atanasovski, Aleksandar Mikic
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About the film:
"Oh My Love" is a film about a famous singer, who after a successful tour through Turkey and turbulent emotional problems, after breaking the longstanding love affair, comes to a hotel to rest in peace and quiet, away from the public and journalists. But her former lover comes to see her for last time and from this point everything goes wrong. Surprising meetings, unexpected personalities and situations.
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BALKAN ROOTS
Showtime: October 29, 2017 - 3:30 p.m.
Genre: Documentary - Music
Released: 2016
Running time: 83 minutes
Director: Chris Rabbitt
Screenplay: Chris Rabbitt, Anthony Fletcher
Producers: Chris Rabbitt, Anthony Fletcher
Leading roles: Sandra Sangiao, Ivan Kovacevic, Robindro Nikolic
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About the film:
Balkan Roots is an exploration of the Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra, a band made up of musicians and music from many corners of Europe. It’s a fusion of Balkan, Roma and other traditions in a dazzling musical odyssey as the band tours the Balkans and meets and performs with local music stars including the legendary Macedonian Roma musician Ferus Mustafov in Skopje, Macedonia.
Filmed & recorded on location in Serbia, Macedonia,Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Slovenia.
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ELENA
Showtime: October 29, 2017 - 5:30 p.m.
Genre: Short - Comedy, Drama
Released: 2016
Running time: 16 minutes
Director: Dina Duma
Screenplay: Dina Duma, Jane Spasik
Producer: Vanco Mirakovski
Leading roles: Eva Ras, Jordan Simonov
  
About the film:
Elena is a seventy-year-old woman who is suffering from dementia. Because of her illness, she thinks she is seventeen and she is in love. Every day David, her son comes to her house dressed as a handyman just so he can spend some time with his mother, hoping that just for a moment she would remember him. However, all she does is talk about her love, and prepares for a date.
Most recently shown at the 38th Manaki Brothers’ International Cinematography Festival in Bitola, 2017.
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THE LAST MACEDONIAN – ROAD TO EXTINCTION
(Macedonian title: „Ïîñëåäíèîò Ìàêåäîíåö - Ïàòîò äî èñòðåáóâàœå”)
Showtime: October 28, 2017 - 3:30 p.m.
Genre: Documentary - History
Released: 2015
Running time: 60 minutes
Director: Ilija Piperkoski
Screenplay: Aleksandar Kukulev
Producer: Snezana Lupevska Sozen
Leading roles: Mitko Apostolovski, Zarko Dimoski, Petar Gorko
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About the film:
Bloodshed, breakup of families, powerful neighbours, and a desire to destroy Macedonia: The homeland is broken up into many parts but its heroes left with a strong sense of independence and self-identity. One hundred years later, after numerous divisions and destruction, new characters fill the stage but there are still a few steps more to go in the story of Macedonia. Historians from Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Russia and Macedonia present facts and evidence, some of it never-before revealed. Shot on location in Bitola and the surrounding area.
Shown at Manaki Brothers’ International Cinematography Festival in Bitola, 2015.
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