II AsterFest 2006Screenings and selections
АСТЕРДОКС • ASTERDOCSДокументарци над 30 минути од автори на ЈИЕ • Documentaries up to 30 mins by SEE authorsБЕЛА БАРТОК, ТУРЦИЈА, 1936... • BELA BARTOK, TURKEY, 1936…
Istanbul; Alanya; Canakkale; Ayisigi In 1936, Bela Bartok makes a field trip to Turkey to compile folk songs. In the fiction part of the film, Atilla, a young Hungarian musician, meets Su, a young girl from Turkey also involved in folk music. The story of their mutual attraction evolves within the framework of the cultural interaction between their people. (Doc, 53’, BetaSP, 2004, TUR) БОИ ВО ВРЕМЕТО • COLORS IN TIME
Ова е портрет на исклучително интересната личност, академскиот сликар Милош Коџоман. Филмот треба да го дефинира расчекорот помеѓу неговото секојдневно живеење, исполнето со исцрпувачка работа во областа на ликовната уметност и неговата опсесија со откривање на нови и нови светови во и надвор од реалноста на едноставниот живот, што води до пронаоѓање на филозофски адеквати во секоја народна мудрост. (Doc, 40’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) ЖИВОТИТЕ НА КОСТА ХАКМАН • LIVES OF KOSTA HAKMAN
Basel Karlsuhe Forum - Switzerland Biographical documentary about turbulent destiny and an extraordinary opus of the eminent Serbian and Yugoslav painter Kosta Hakman, including all major historical and cultural changes of 20th century, up to our days. (Doc, 55’, digiBeta, 2005, SCG) НОВ ЕЛДОРАДО • NEW ELDORADO
Best Documentary – Hungarian FF; Best Documentary – Alpe-Adria FF Italy; Grand Prix – Envirofilm Slovakia; Special Jury Prize – Anonimul Romania; Best Film by the Student Jury – Okomedia Germany There is a wonderful village in Romania: Rosia Montana. There are several hundred-year-old houses, and there are people who stick to their land, houses, churches and the mortal remains of their fathers. The surrounding mountains hide 300 tons of gold and silver. Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, a Canadian-Romanian company wants to open a new open-cast gold mine here. (Doc, 76’, DVCam, 2004, HUN) ПОДИГРУВАЊЕ • SHUFFLE – POLITICS, BULLSHIT & ROCK’N’ROLL
Audience Award, Special Jury Prize – Dokufest Prizren While in 1999 people were happy to find freedom, five years later they found themselves disillusioned and angry. Six alternative music bands try to express all of these emotions through music and performance. Shuffle takes place in postwar Kosovo. It tells the story of six struggling alternative bands and their view on politics, religion and their daily life. (Doc, 43’, miniDV, 2005, Kosova / Kosovo i Metohija (UNMIK Protectorate) СЕВДАХ МОСТОТ КОЈ ТРАЕ • SEVDAH THE BRIDGE THAT SURVIVED
Sarajevo, Karlovy Vary, Documenta Madrid, Bangkok In 1993 fighting in Mostar resulted in the destruction of the town’s ancient bridge. A group of local musicians formed Mostar Sevdah Reunion Band to transcend the communical strife around them. Ten years on, Mostar remains divided but the band continues to perform, building bridges further afield between people of goodwill. (Doc, 60’, digiBeta, 2005, GBR/BIH) СЕНКА НА ДУШАТА • SHADOW OF THE SOUL
Светска премиера • World premiere Ова е приказна за Стојан Конев и градот. Сугестивна, драматична и потресна. Главниот протагонист е човек инфициран од неизлечивиот вирус на предапокалиптичното време. Стојан прогнозираше дека кога ќе се прикаже филмот, веќе ќе го нема. Тој е уште жив. (Doc, 42’, miniDV, 2005/6, MKD) СМРТТА И СИОТ ПАТ НАЗАД • DEATH AND ALL THE WAY BACK
Sofija, Berlin, Sarajevo, Sozopol, Latvia This is a film about heroin addicts fighting for their lives in communes outside the cities. The communes, which are free-of-charge, without any medication, have a success rate of over 85%, using a method that won the Nobel Prize for Discovery. They are funded by the family of a private businessman, whose son is the first person in charge of the Belmeken commune. (Doc, 63’, digiBeta, 2005, BGR) СОЊА И МАРКО НА ИСТИОТ БЛИСТОК • SONJA AND MARKO ON THE MIDDLE EAST TOUR
Belgrade clown Marko encounters the world full of colors and tastes, and finally becomes part of it while driwing monocycle on a huge ship, surrounded by thousand of Arabs. Прво фестивалско учество First festival participation (Doc, 54’, miniDV, 2005, SCG) СОСЕМ ЛИЧНО • TOTALLY PERSONAL
Tribeca – New York; Trieste; Goteborg; Nomination for Oscar; Big Stamp for the best regional film and Audience Award – Zagreb Dox It is a film – using a conceptual form – covers the life span of 47 years. The author covers the historical periods through a very personal lens by limiting himself to portrayal of his family, friends and micro events. With this film, the author confronts with Hollywood and (contrary to Hollywood) he makes a film about an ordinary man. (Doc, 78’, miniDV, 2005,BIH) БАЛКАНСКА ФИКЦИЈА • BALKANS FICTIONДолгометражни, среднометражни и краткометражни играни филмови од балкански филммејкери или на балканска тема Full-length, midle-length and short fiction by Balkans filmmakers or based on the Balkans motives АЛЕФ • ALEPH
Young married couple are moving in a new flat. They try to drop everyday monotony buying a magic box which introduce them in tv-simulacrum. (Fict, 15’, miniDV, 2004/5, MKD) ANGORA • ANGORA
Filip, rabbit-lover, gets involved in a quarrel with his chief romana, who tries to get her revenge in – for Filip – the most painful way. (Fict, 18’35’’, BetaCam, 2005, SVN) ЗА МАЈКА МИ • TO MY MOTHER
Прво фестивалско учество First festival participation The film is based on a true story, one of the many similar stories that occurred in Trieste and in the area around after the Italian occupation in 1918… (Fict, 12’, BetaCam, 2005, SVN) КАКО ЛОШ СОН • LIKE A BAD DREAM
Los Angeles, Berlin, Talin, Milano, Montreal, Toronto, Sofija, Podgorica, Bitola The story focuses on the interwoven destinies of a group of people burdened by traumatic experiences who seek to have this part of their past erased, so it remains in their consciousness as merely a bad dream. There are moments when they communicate easily or show tenderness, however, they lack the possibility to influence one another. Destiny has brought Sheytan and his young companion, Ivan, to different worlds. One to the hell of the Balkan wars, the other to the tormenting world of a western metropolis. For both, the awakening is painful. Each desperately wants to start from the beginning but they do not find inner strength to face their own plight. (Fict, 91’, 35mm, 2003, MKD/HRV) LARGO
The film is a trip to childhood. Its aim is to try t preserve all these precious moments and to protect them from the ravages of time. Best Short Film - Yorkshire Film Awards; Best Short - Drama; Special Student Jury Prize - Brno; Jury Special Mention - Slovakia (Fict, 16’, 16mm, 2001, GRC) ЛЕЈДИ ЗИ • LADY ZEE
Grand Prix – Sarajevo; Audience Award – New Montreal FilmFest; Golden Aphrodite – Love is Folly Zlatina has grown up in an institution for abandoned children. So has Lechko, her younger follower. At a fun fair, at the age of twelve, she shows her talent for shooting. The same day a group of boys plans to rape her. Zlatina manages to avert the rape by offering herself to the boarding house supervisor. When she grows up and leaves the institution, her behaviour abides by the conviction that one has to struggle daily for one's survival as animals do; that friendship, love, and other good things happen in soap operas only. The life of Zlatina takes a different turn when a former inmate from the boarding house, Nayden, now an instructor at a shooting gallery, is so impressed by her talent for shooting that he takes her under his guardianship. He trains her and educates her like Pygmalion. And falls in love with her. However, Zlatina is suspicious of his selflessness and fears the inequality of their relationship. A criminal accident confirms her scares. As she seeks to start life anew, Zlatina keys Lechko, her devoted shadow, into robbing Nayden. She then decides to pass the Greek border pretending to be a prostitute… and ends up in a brothel where her worst nightmare becomes reality. Most unexpectedly to her, Lechko is the one who undertakes to pull her out of the brothel… (Fict, 96’, 35mm, 2005, BGR) НИШАЛКА • ROCKING CHAIR
Jura’s chair started rocking with the outbreak of war. The same rocking felt his entire generation… (Fict., 28’, digiBeta, 2005, HRV) ПЕТНАЕСЕТ СЕКУНДИ • FIFTEEN SECONDS
Kodak Special Prize – Manaki Brothers Bitola A girl wakes up in a hospital. She does not know where she is or why she is there. Suddenly she becomes hunted and she wants to escape. C: Daniela Stojkovska.,Gjorgi Jolevski P: FDU (Fict, 17’, MKD) PILALA
Best Greek Short – Drama; Special Prize by Canal plus – Montpellier; Best Short Film – Spain; 1st Prize - Best film – Austria; Jury Prize – Tangier; Honorary Award - Iran A big day is set ahead for 12-year old Adipas. He is preparing to watch his idol on TV but an electricity failure in his village ruins his plans. (Fict, 18’, 35mm, 2004, GRC) САМУРАЈ • SAMOURE
Best Screenplay – Drama; Grand Prix – Montpellier; Second Best Short Film – Greek State Film Awards Thomas, a peculiar shepherd living in a village at the mountains of Crete, has an obsession with Samurai. Samure is a story of being different in a small community and the conflicts this causes. (Fict, 27’, 35mm, 2005, GRC) СРЕДБА • RENDEZ-VOUS
(Fict, 15’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) СРЕЌЕН ПАТ НЕДИМ • GOOD LUCK NEDIM
Upon arrival at the border two friends come across a young police officer who is not allowed to let them through because Nedim does not have a proper visa for entering. (Fict, 12’53’’, miniDV, 2006, SVN) СТРМОГЛАВИ
Прво фестивалско прикажување • First festival screening Ова е приказна за малите луѓе и нивниот напор да го задржат човечкото во себе, во условите кои спротивно на тоа, ги поставуваат во еден суров, често и криминоген социјален амбиент. Низ потресно раскажаната приказна во која се менуваат поетските и сурови драмски делови, ова е приказна за нас и нашето совремние, но и сведоштво кое, пошироко, говори за човечките судбини на целиот југоисток од Европа. Оттука и медумската актуелност и комуникативност на овој филм. (Fict, 60’, DVCam, 2006, MKD) ТАА ПРЕКРАСНА СПЛИТСКА НОЌ • THAT WONDERFUL SPLIT NIGHT
Golden Arena for Camera, Golden Arena for Editing, Critics’ Award for the Best Film, Award for the Best First Film – Pula; Special Jury Prize, Best Actress Award – Sarajevo; Special Prize for an outstanding artistic contribution – Cottbus; Critics Award – Belgrade; Grand Prix for the Best Film – Constanta; Special Jury Mention – Montpellier; Best Director – New York; Best Director, Screenplay – Winston-Salem On the dark and empty streets of the Split ghetto, during the last two hours of New Year’s Eve, we observe three separate stories taken out of the mad New Year’s celebration. Three different romantic couples find themselves in Peristyle – the small-time pirate Nike dealer with the widow Marija and her baby, a young addict in withdrawal and the disillusioned sailor Franky, and finally, the love-struck, naive adolescents Luka and Anjela – all trying to run away from the extremes to which they’ve been pushed and to change their lives. (Fict, 100’, 35mm, 2004, HRV) ЕДНА ЖЕНА/ЕДЕН ФИЛМ • ONE WOMAN/ONE FILMФилмови од женски автори • Films by female authorsБУНТ • REBELLION
Music documentary about cult music band Partybreakers. (Doc, 30’, BetaSP, 2006, SCG) ГОЛЕМИ ОЧЕКУВАЊА • GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Human and architectural violence are the result of the same virus infection – great expectations. (Doc, 17’, S16mm, 2005, HRV/FRA) ГОСТ ВО КАФЕЗ • GUEST IN BIRDCAGE
Remoteness is by no means associated with distance. The absence of sounds in the home brings the birds near to the thresholds of buildings. The open windows sometimes expose the emptiness of the exterior, sometimes the longing of the unknown faraway guest. (Exp, 1’ 59’’, miniDV, 2002, DEU) LITTLEREDRIDDINGHOODSHORTCUT
(Exp, 2’ 30’’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) МОЛКОТ НА ЈАГНИЊАТА • SILENCE OF THE LAMBS
(Exp, 2’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) ПАЗАР • THE MARKET
Прво фестивалско учество First festival screening Market shoppers use all of their senses when trying to ascertain whether the groceries are local or imported… (Exp.doc, 9’, digiBeta, 2006, HRV) ПЕРАЛНА • LAUNDRY
(Exp, 5’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) ПРЕЛУДИУМ НА ТИШИНАТА • PRELUDE OF THE SILENCE
The picture shows one day of the life of a female patient, who once had an intellectual profession, at a mental home in Armenia. (Fict, 8’, 35mm, 2006, ARM/NLD) СИМБИОЗА • SYMBIOSIS
Symbiosis draws the attention to our responsibility for our environment. Symbiosis portrays the kind of helplessness, that originates from the recognition of our obstacles, the inability to change them, and the hope, that we can realise, that sometimes we are the hinderers of our own happyness. Светска премиера • World premiere (Doc, 15’, digiBeta, 2006, HUN) ТИ СИ ЖИВА! • YOU ARE ALIVE!
The film is about two women in a safe house. Zana, 35, became a human-trafficking victim and spent 15 years of her life being forced to work in the sex industry. And she never heard anything about her dauther who is 17 now. Emi is 17. She was brave enough to escape from the modern slave. She is in house with Zana, listening to her story. Zana believes that Emi was her dauther. (Fict, 40’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) УЧИЛИШТЕ ЗА СОНИШТА • THE SCHOOL OF DREAMS
Special Mention – Fipa Biaritz A film on the unseen side of ballet, what is beyond the graceful flight on stage… (Doc, 34’, BetaSP, 2004, ROU) ШТО ИМА ЗАД • WHAT’S BEHIND
(Exp. ani, 3’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) МУВИЛЕНД • MOVIELANDФокус кон филмски дела од Молдавија • Focus on Moldova filmworksКОГА СВЕТЛАТА ЌЕ ЗГАСНАТ • WHEN THE LIGHTS GO OUT
The world turns upside down when the lights go out and a bet is lost. (Fict, 35mm, 8’20’’, 2005, MDA/ROU) ПОДАРОК • THE GIFT
(Fict, 12’, 35mm, 12’, 2004, MDA/FRA) СЕЛО ВО ОГЛЕДАЛОТО • VILLAGE IN THE MIRROR
The target of this film were two villages with the same name from Republic of Moldova and from Romania. This film is a brilliant example of the fact that beyond any border there is only one people, speaking the same language, sharing the same history, traditions and living way. (Doc, 23’, digiBeta, 18, MDA) УМИРАЊЕ ЗА МАДРИД • DYING FOR MADRID
The film is based on the tragic story of Struguras, a local folklore band from Ungheni county, Moldova. They trusted an ideology that felt no remorse sending them to death (they had been sent to give concerts to Chernobyl for volunteers working at the liquidation of the catastrophe, being promised a trip to Madrid for that). (Doc, 22’, digiBeta, 1998, MDA) On the 26th of April, 1952 The USSR Ministry of Cinematography has initiated in Chisinau the Documentary Film Studio. During the firs year appeared two documentaries "Kodry" and "Moldovan Cannery". The picture directors were from Moscow, Odessa, as by that time there were no national workers in the field of cinema. On the 24th of January, 1957 the MSSR Council of Ministers took the decision "About the renaming of the Documentary Film Studio from Chisinau into "Studio for Fiction Movies and Chronicle Documentaries from Chisinau named "Moldova-film"". Since 1952 until 1957 6 documentaries were screened. The first fiction movie was named "Cind omul nu-i la locul lui" (When the man is not himself) after a script written by Ion Druta. It appears in 1957, gender: comedy. In 1968 the first cartoon picture "The Goat with three kids" was launched; picture inspired by Ion Creanga’s fairy-tale with the same title. In 1972 the satiric magazine "Usturici" appears. Since 1952 until 1982 at the "Moldova-film" studio were screened: 120 fiction movies, 800 documentaries, 750 editions of the cinema magazine "Soviet Moldova", 40 editions of the satiric magazine "Usturici", 40 cartoon pictures. "Moldova-film" studio, until the end of 80s, annually had screened: 3-4 fiction movies, 4 cartoon pictures, 25 documentaries, 12 editions of "Soviet Moldova", and 6 satiric magazines "Usturici". It also dubbed of 12 fiction movies and 70 short subject movies. "Modlova-film" studio is the past and the present of our country, but most of all the past. Open to assimilate new audio-visual technologies, OWH TV Studio (Open World House TV Studio) is the only TV studio from Republic of Moldova, which activates with the status of a non-governmental organization. It is also one of the few mass media institution seeking to promote the values of a democratic society through audio-visual means. The developing strategy marks 3 priority segments: creation, information and training. Beginning with TV reportages and ending with fiction movies, beyond any geographical frontier, the area of our concerns involves collaboration with cultural and mass-media organizations, state and non-governmental organizations, natural persons, notorious people from Moldova and from abroad. Many of them alumni of the Theatre and Film Academy from Bucharest, Romania, the members of OWH team inherited the European spirit enabling them to fit into the life of film making and audio-visual mass media from Moldova with their fresh concept on creation and a modern vision of mirroring social events. OWH is organizer of the the International Documentary Film Festival “CRONOGRAF” lunched 5 years ago thanks to the passion of a group of young artists that had the idea of creating a film festival in Chisinau city. (СЕ)ЧОВЕКОВО ПРАВО • ALL (HUMAN) RIGHTРасчекор или зближување помеѓу човекот и средината • Bestriding or intimacy between human being and societyВО РАБОТЕН ПРОГРЕС • IN WORKING PROGRESS
(Doc, 30’35’’, DVCam, 2005, ISR) ЗЕМЈАТА ЧЕКА • THE LAND IS WAITING
The life of an extremely poor Gipsy family in a village in northeastern Romania. The parents have made incredible efforts to send all ten of their children to school. Five of them have even made it to University in the city. Prix Nanook – Paris; Best Romanian Doc; Golden Wheel; Thessaloniki; Parnu; Rio de Janeiro; Amsterdam (Doc, 59’, miniDV, 2004, ROU) ИЗГУБЕНОТО БОГАТСТВО • THE LOST TREASURE
Prix Europa Berlin; Ekotop; Rome; Estonia The story about co-operation between woman and sheepdog and how important this co-operation is to both – and the lost sheep… (Doc, 26’, digiBeta, 2005, HRV) ИМА ЛИ НЕКОЈ ПЛАН? • DOES ANYONE HAVE A PLAN?
A questions for the politicians who are currently in the process of negotiating the future status of Kosovo. (Doc, 86’, digiBeta, 2006, Kosovo/SCG/MKD/BIH/BEL) НА ДРУГО МЕСТО • ELSEWHERE
In the new elsewhere, between East and West, will they ever become anything more than numbers and groups of next door strangers identified by red lanterns? (Doc, 20’, digiBeta, 2005, HRV) ПО ВОЈНАТА • AFTER THE WAR
Jury Prize – Alternative Film&Video Festival Belgrade High up in the mountains of Kosovo, between the borders of Macedonia, Serbia and Albania lives a small Islamized people of Slavic origin, without a country of their own. They are called the Gorani… (Doc, 47’, DVCam, 2005, SCG) PUNAM
Story about a 9 year-old girl, who lives in Bhaktapur, Nepal,where 3,5 million of the 9 million children aged 5 to 17 are at work. One World Prague (Doc, 27’, BetaSP, 2005, SCG) СЕКОЈ ДЕН НОВА ПРОМЕНА • EVERY DAY A NEW CHALLENGE
Handicapped people can surely rely on each other’s helpif nothing else. (Fict, 4’20’’, 16mm, 2006, HUN) MERRY-DIONESФилмови и видеа од разни простори или за разни нешта • Films & videos from various teritories or on various thingsБЕЛА ЌЕЛИЈА • WHITE CELL
A political prisoner in a white cell thinks about his human condition. (Exp, 6’14’’, AVI, 2006, PRT) БЕЛО СВЕТЛО • WHITE LIGHT
Maria has cancer, her life in some public hospital lights up with the presence of Phitini, a student nurse. Audience Award – Ciff; Tehran (Fict, 22’, 35mm, 2004, GRC) BIRDAY
(Exp, 9’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) БОЖЕСТВО ПА ЧИСТОТА • CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS
I Del Alfoldi Regionalis Film Szemle Early at the morning. A hotel room. In the bed sleep a couple peacefully. Phoneringing. But who does phone in this time? (Fict, 4’, 16mm, 2005, HUN) ГЛЕДНА ТОЧКА • POINT OF VIEW
(Exp. fict, 11’ 30’’, miniDV, 2004, MKD) DANDELION
(Exp. fict, 3’54’’, 2005, MKD/USA) ДОДО ДНЕВНИК: ОДИСЕЈА - ПОСЛЕДНАТА НЕВОЗМОЖНА МИСИЈА • DODO DIARY: THE ODISSEY – THE LAST MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
The film is a visual essay which connects illustrative docu form with mediative narration of a Balkan intellectual, faced with the problem of survival. (Doc, 12’50’’, miniDV, 2004, CSG) ДУХОТ Е ПОДГОТВЕН АМА МЕСОТО Е МЛИТАВО • THE SPIRIT IS WILLING BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK
Imago Film Festival It was recorded a religious ceremony where the observation of the same, conceived the idea of an individual looking at a systematic and repetitive, ordinary act. (Exp. doc, 3’ 6’’, miniDV, 2005, PRT) ЕДНО ВО МИЛИОН • ONE IN A MILLION
There's One in a Million change for you to... fall in love... lose your one and only love... lose your faith in love... but it's more than a certainty that you will. Special Award - Ciff (Fict, 22’, 35mm, 2005, CYP) ЖИВОТИНСКО ОДНЕСУВАЊЕ • ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR
Ciff; New York Television violence leads to a cruel game inside Dog's house. Ironically, at the same time, Dog tries helplessly to find a solution to his insomnia through religious TV programming. (Ani, 6’22’’, 35mm, 2005, CYP) ИЗМИРСКИ КАЈАЦИ • IZMIR CAIQUES
Fisherman&Sea Docs Festival – Foca A film that tells us, the reconstruction period of Izmir Caiques with the destruction of Izmir City. (Doc, 43’15’’, miniDV, 2005, TUR) КЛАСИКА 104 • CLASSIC 104
New Delhi; Colombia; Mexico Every year in the first weekend of August it takes place a non competitive race of 104 km walking, cycling and riding in a small village called Calcena and its surroundings in North Spain… (Doc, 50’, DVCam, 2005, ESP) КРАЛ НА ПАТОТ • KING OF THE ROAD
Festival Slovenskega Filma – Portoroz (Doc, 7’ 22’, digiBeta, 2005, SVN) КРЕАЦИЈА • CREATION
1st Prize – Kromeriz; Special Prize – Cesky lvicek At the beginning was the word… (Exp, 9’, miniDV, 2005, CZE) КУТРАТА РИБА • POOR POOR FISH
The market of fishes and the market of humans. (Ani, 1’ 30’’, miniDV, 2005, ITA) МЕСО И КОЖА • THROUGH SKIN AND BONE
Прво фестивалско учество • First festival participation Using symbolic means the film tells a story of a painful relationship that does finally break up, but whose fragments are left deeply embedded in the psyches of the two young protagonists who are now left to reflect on the dichotomous nature of love. (Fict, 7’, HDCam, 2006, SCG/GBR) МИМЕТОЛИТИ • MIMETOLITHS
Traveling to beautiful/mystical Crete, to closely look at Mimetoliths (rocks and stones that imitate living beings). (Doc, 59’58’’, miniDV, 2005/6, CAN) NATURA
(Exp, 2’ 50’’, miniDV, 2006, MKD) ПАКЕТ • PACKAGED&S&A: Boris Pavlovich M&E: Maja Janusheva AnimaFest - Zagreb An SF story about two working man who are on an assignement to deliver a mistery package to some desolate planet somewhere in the galaxy. (Ani, 5’55’’, DV, 2005, MKD) ПАФОС И ГАЛАТЕЈА • PAPHOS&GALATEA
Venturing the mind of an aging sculptor, the film tries to approach the ecstatic truth in the mystery of the ancient Greek myth of Pygmalion. Best exp. - Ciff (Exp. fict, 12’, 16mm, 2005, DEU) ПРЕД СЛЕТУВАЊЕ НА ЗЕМЈАТА • BEFORE FLYING BACK TO THE EARTH
Golden Dove – Leipzig; Siler Wolf – Idfa Amsterdam; Best Lithuanian Film; Big Stamp – Zagreb Dox; Nomination for Best European Doc Having spent eight months at the Vilnus paediatric hospital for the eventually successful treatment of his daughter for leukaemia, filmmaker Matelis returns to the ward to create a film full of life and magic moments in the face of nonexistence. (Doc, 52’, DigiBeta, 2005, LTU/DEU) СЛУЧКИ • HAPPENINGS
(Fict. Serial, 40’ 55’’, miniDV, 2005, MKD) СРЕЌНА НОВА ГОДИНА • HAPPY NEW YEAR
Portoroz (Doc. fict, 6’ 30’’, digiBeta, 2005, SVN) СРПСКА СИМФОНИЈА • SERBIAN SYMPHONY
Dresden; Leipzig; Berlin; Belgrad The movie accompanies namely Orkestra Salijevic (Underground, Black Cat White Cat) and Boban Markovic Orkestar, who are the both favourites for the Golden Trumpet through the last decade. (Doc, 71’, BetaSP, 2002, DEU/SCG) СРЦЕТО НА ИМИГРАНТОТ • HEART OF THE IMMIGRANT
1st Prize – Revija HFS (Exp. doc, 15’, miniDV, 2005, CHE/HRV) UGLY AND BUGLY
Anifest – Trebonj (Ani, 2’ 25’’, 2005, MKD) C-MAIL
Weimar Video reporting Award – Germany Johan Wolf, 63, used to be a teacher, and now lives on a small Dutch island. Since 1968 he has been collecting... (Doc, 10’02’’, miniDV, 2005, PRT) ЦРВЕНИОТ ШЕФ 4016 • RED CHIEF 4016
Berlin; Istanbul; Bucharest; Krsko; Bronx Visual story of a person who has lost his/her precious apple… (Exp.doc, 5’, miniDV, 2004, MKD/FRA) ЧАД ОД ЦИГАРА • CIGAR SMOKE
Hungarian Film Week A man and a woman have a joint meal together. Four and a half kilos of cold meat with mustard. (Fict, 5’, miniDV, 2006, HUN) ПОСВЕТИ • HOMAGESBranko Gapo, Ivan Mitevski, Kiro Urdin, Manaki Brothers, film dedicated to the city, Risto Siskov (1936-1986)DOGONA
Creative documentary about the Dogon; their cosmogony is the star Sirius. Rose d’Or Lucerne Festival (Doc, 25’, miniDV, 2004, MKD/BEL) ДОКУМЕНТИ ЗА СОНОТ • DOCUMENTS OF A DREAM
A film about the Manaki Brothers. In the film are used authentic photo and film materials made by Milton and Janaki Manaki. (Doc, miniDV, 60’, 2004, MKD) КОНЦЕРТ ЗА ЕДНА ДУША ОПУС 2617 • CONCERT FOR A SOUL OPUS 2617
(Doc, 74’, 16mm, 1975, MKD) A film about art and politics. Banned from screening 18 years. НАЈДОЛГИОТ ПАТ • THE LONGEST JOURNEY
Great Silver Arena – Pula; Charter for Male Role – Nis The terror of the Turkish authorities is increasingly difficult to endure. As revenge, the attacks on their army are more and more frequent. A group of such rebellious villagers is sentenced to be expelled and this is how their dark Odyssey begins, starting in Ohrid, through Salonica and Asia Minor and finally reaching the distant Dijar Bekir. The survived peasants begin their journey back to their villages in Macedonia. (Fict, 126’, 35mm, 1976, MKD) ПТИЦИТЕ ДОАЃААТ • THE BIRDS ARE COMING
The film is fiction-documentary story for the way of fishing in Doyran Lake, with the help of the birds – cormorants. The falls with the people and birds’ connection, birds are the best workers and irreplaceable assistants to the fishermen. The fishermen are happy when cormorants are coming and the fishing can start. (Fict. doc., 19’, 35mm, 1956, MKD) ХИДРОМЕЛИОРАТИВЕН СИСТЕМ СТРУМИЦА • HMS STRUMICA
(Doc, 35mm, 1987, 27’, MKD) АСТЕР - МЕЃУНАРОДНА НАГРАДА ЗА ВИСОКИ ДОСТИГНУВАЊА ВО АВТОРСКИОТ ФИЛМ • ASTER – INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR HIGH ACHIEVMENTS IN AUTHOR FILMБранко Ивановски Гапо • Branko Ivanovski Gapo (Tetovo, 5.11.1931) He is a film, television and theater director. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology in Skopje. He started dealing with film during his early youth as a film amateur. In the 50s, Gapo made his first documentary films as a professional ("Skopje Magazine", "Tobacco Factory", "Fuel", "Birds Are Coming", "Border"), and a great opus of documentary and short feature films followed. In this period Gapo was associated with many directors. As an assistant director he worked with France Shtiglic and Dimitrie Osmanli and also with A. Gance and W. Diterle. In 1965 he made his first feature film "Days of The Trial" and in 1969 the feature film "Time Without War" brought him the award for directing at the Film Festival in Pula, the "Silver Plaque" at the Festival in Avelino and the Republic Award "11th of October". Gapo also had an important part in television and theater directing. He was awarded the "11th of October" Prize for life accomplishment for consistent and particularly significant achievements in the field of culture and art in 1997. Awards: 1962 FYDSF, Belgrade, Third Prize for direction / "Border"; 1964 First International Meeting of Folklore and Ethnographical Films of the Balkan Nations / "The Last Nomads"; 1969 FF, Zagreb, Diploma / " The Life in the Second's Hands; 1969 FYFF, Pula, Special Diploma for direction / "Time Without War"; 1970 13 November Prize / "Time Without War"; 1972 IFF, Avelino, Silver Medal / "Time Without War"; 1976 FYFF, Silver Arena for film / "The Longest Road"; 1997 11th October Prize for life accomplishment Filmography: 1950 : Newsreel no. 23 (Colaborator); 1951 : Newsreel no. 26 (Redactor); 1951 : Newsreel no. 27 (Redactor); 1953 : Dawns in the Fields (Director, Screenplay); 1953 : Fuel (D, S); 1953 : Hatter's Shop "Macedonia" (D, S); 1953 : Miravci's Wedding (Ass. D); 1953 : Skopje Magazine (Director); 1953 : Tobacco Factory in Skopje (D); 1953 : Vardar - Rabotnichki (D, S); 1954 : "Treska" Factory (D, S); 1954 : The Fourth Skopje Fair (D, S); 1956 : Spring Hopes (Director, Screenplay); 1956 : The Birds are Coming (Director); 1956 : The Sixth Skopje Fair (D, S); 1959 : Following the Paths of the Freedom (D, S); 1959 : Hydroelectric Power Stations "Vrben" And "Raven" (D); 1959 : Visa of Evil (Ass. D); 1960 : The Sun of the Youthfulness (D, S); 1961 : 14-th Final of the Football Cup (D, S); 1961 : A Quiet Summer (Ass. D); 1961 : Between the Two Farewells (D, S); 1961 : The City on the River Vardar (D); 1962 : An Element (D, S); 1962 : The Border (D); 1962 : Tito Among the Young People (D, S); 1962 : Vibration Engines (D); 1963 : Macedonia 1942 (D); 1963 : Skopje, Problems With the Public Services (D, S); 1964 : Aromatic Gold (D); 1964 : Farewell (Director); 1964 : School Summer Holiday (D, S); 1964 : The Last Nomads (D, S); 1965 : Days of Temptation (D, S); 1965 : The Life in the Second's Hands (D); 1966 : By the Way (D, S); 1967 : In the Year Of Our Lord '67 (D); 1968 : Going on the Way, Asking For the Way (D); 1969 : Time Without War (D); 1971 : Between the Two Holidays of St. Elias' Day (D, S); 1971 : Tito In Macedonia (D, S); 1972 : A Shot (D); 1976 : Amen Siam But Roma (D); 1976 : The Goats... and Other After Ten Years (D, S); 1976 : The Longest Journey (D); 1977 : "Crn Bor" (D, S); 1978 : In a Yeаr of Our Lord '77 (D, S); 1980 : Times, Waters (D); 1984 : Gostivar of Yesterday and Today (D, S); 1985 : Angroengineering (D, S); 1987 : Tetovo Through History And Today (D, S); 1993 : Macedonian Saga (D, S); 2002: Waste Breznica (D); 2003: Building a Church (D); 2005: Jance, Pearl on Radika (D); 2006: Pit (in preparation) Other movies: 1956 Fifth Partizan’s Games in Macedonia, documentary, Zora film Zagreb; 1963 Money in the Marshes, doc, Dunav film Belgrade; 1964 People Under Dry Mountain, doc, Zagreb film; 1974 Byzant, doc, Adria film Zagreb; 1988 Plastic, doc, Vardar film; 1994 Asnom, doc, Vardar film the organizers withhold the right to change the programme |