Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 24 November 2011

Young Macedonian director Marija Džidževa first hit it big in her home country with the documentary The List of Toni Mandža (2004), about a young man from a small town who escapes prisons and goes on a killing spree with a hit list in his pocket. The film was said to be the first ever Macedonian documentary to have pirated copies sold throughout the country. She recently completed her part in the ex-Yugoslavian collaborative project Some Other Stories. She talked to Southeast Europe: People and Culture about her recent and current projects.

Author: Béatrice André
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 24 October 2011

Take the team from Makedox, the documentary film festival that took place in June 2011 in Skopje,  put them in a van with a few tents, and a portable movie screen, and what happens is Makedox travelling cinema, the second chapter of Macedonia's only documentary film festival. Makedox took place in August, screening films in six villages and small cities: Lazaropole, Vevčani, Kavadarci, Gevgelija, Štip and Vinica.

Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 07 July 2011

Back in 1987, Vladimir Blazevski’s “Hi-Fi” was perhaps the most talked about film in the former Yugoslavia. Blazevski won the Golden Arena Award for Best Director at the renowned Pula Film Festival, and in 1992 directed “Revolution Boulevard”, another major blockbuster.

Author: Darko Cekerovski
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 9 November 2010

The city of Bitola opened its doors to the world at the end of October, when the 31st the International Cinematographers' Film Festival took place there. Honoured with lifetime achievement awards were cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and actress Daryl Hannah...

Author: Aleksandar Sazdovski
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 17 May 2010

With the signing of the Dogme 95 Manifesto and the "Vow of Chastity" in 1995, Danish directors Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg started an avant-garde filmmaking movement that has so far spawned 108 movies across the globe.

Author: Risto Karajkov
Place: The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia**
Date: 2 November 2009

Brothers Milton and Janaki Manaki moved to the city of Bitola in 1905. Bitola was an important administrative and cultural centre in what was then still the Ottoman Empire. Back in those times, it was often referred to as the “city of consuls”, on account of the many diplomatic missions it hosted.

Author: Zlatica Petkovska
Place: the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Date: 19 May

What would you think of a young man passing you by on the street handing you a piece of paper with the words, "Will you marry me" written on it? Yes he means it and yes this really happens – at least in the new fictious documentary “Cash&Marry”, directed by Atanas Georgiev.
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