MACEDONIAN SELECTION
GJORGJI LAZOV
ASHES
In a near future where because of the pollution from the factories children and people die and are born deformed, a young married couple struggles with the knowledge that their 8 year daughter will die in few days.
IGOR ALEKSOV
DREAM OF BLOOD AND SOUL
Marko is a vampire who suddenly starts to dream and wake up before the sunset…
LEON RISTOV
When a teenager gets attacked by peers, his parents come up with a plan to protect him. Set in an urban Macedonian neighborhood, this short observes the interplay of gender roles and intergenerational violence, with equal touches of dry humor and family melodrama.
TANJA SIMONOVSKA
NEW BEGINNING
“New beginning” tells the story about the life of a young girl (23) Anna, who after one year after the death of her parents, moves to Skopje. There she tries to start her new beginning, risking, searching for a job and place for living. She is an artist, juggler on a hula-hoop, but her purpose is to find a good paid job, which is not connected with art. The new adventure in the capital city leads her to happy and extremely dangerous places. At the end she goes back to her roots.
DIMITAR OROVCANEC
THE COMRADE
The Comrade is a story about a bitter old man, probably the last living WW2 veteran, whose memories of the years spent as a high ranking official in ex-Yugoslavia are his only connection to reality, while, against all odds, he still goes on living according to the rules of the old system, a system which has been long gone.