Spotlight on Macedonia

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Jan 30, 2014

(75 min)

U.S. premiere!

Live music by Dragi Spasovski and David Bilides!

In this collection of new short films from Macedonia, stories that are distinctly Balkan in flavor come alive. A small girl discovers a way to set her dreams aloft on a sad day. Teen romance blossoms in the hothouse of a dysfunctional family’s front yard. A Romani mother and son find their way through discrimination and hardship to show their love for each other in simple ways. And a tragic tale from Hans Christian Anderson finds new pathos when it is set in modern-day Skopje. The program also includes a youth-made film from the Regional Creative Doc School, ACTive, and a rollicking selection of newly restored silent short made at the dawn of cinema by Macedonia’s famed Manaki Brothers. Top players in Seattle’s vibrant Balkan music community will supply live accompaniment to the silent shorts.

For ages 14+ Serious subject matter in some films is not suitable for young children.
 
Silent films with live accompaniment: Footage of local miracles, dances, traditions, religious rituals and feasts, weddings and funerals, shot in the late 19th and early 20th century by Yanaki and Milton Manaki, who created the first motion pictures in the Ottoman Empire. Their films have recently been restored and re-released by the Cinematheque of Macedonia.
 
New films from 2011-2013
 
Bardo (Marija Apcevska); Glow (Tomislav Aleksov); Face (Stefan Sidovski); Spring Into Summer (Regional Creative Doc School ACTive); The Little Match Girl (Filip Matevski); Game Over (Zoran Mishevski)
 
Special thanks to The Macedonian Film Fund

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