25th Skopje Film Festival opens
Skopje, 10 September 2022 (MIA) – The 25th edition of the Skopje Film Festival opened at the Cinematheque of North Macedonia on Friday.
The opening evening presented exhibition of posters from the past 25 years of the Skopje Film Festival by notable Macedonian artists including Vane Kosturanov (2013), Zoran Kardula (2020), Gjorgji Despotov (2018), Tabi Aziri (2014, 2016), Meri Bakalova (2015), Bojan Krtolica (2012), Dimitar Apostolov (2011), Jana Misheva (2009), Filip Kondovski (1999), etc.
This year’s winner of the Cannes Film Festival’s Palm d’Or Prize - Triangle of Sadness by Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, was screened at the opening. Another screening of the film will take place on Thursday (September 15) at 10 pm.
The festival’s program continues on Saturday at the Cinematheque, with the screening of Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car, which is based on Haruki Murakami's short story of the same name from his 2014 collection “Men Without Women”. The film is dealing with the theme of love, loss, grief, acceptance and peace.
Drive My Car had its world premiere at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Screenplay award, and in 2022 it won Best International Feature Film award at the 94th Academy Awards. Sunday’s program of the festival includes the film screenings of Corsage and Rimini. Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage portrays a restless Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) touring Europe, trying to break free of her constricted life at court. Rimini is part of the Authors Film Program, the latest comedy drama by filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, bringing his long-awaited return after a decade-long absence from fiction filmmaking. The film premiered in the main competition at the Berlin Film Festival. As part of the Cine Fashion program, documentary film Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, will be screened at the Kotur café-theatre at 7 pm. The film is an intimate portrait of designer Martin Margiela who the fashion world regarded as one of the most revolutionary and influential designers of the past 30 years. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Kristina Gligorovska, fashion researcher and editor at the world’s famous fashion magazine WeAr and Aleksandra Olenska, fashion stylist and creative consultant for global brands such as Tom Ford, Celine, Daks London, Pringle of Scotland and Vanessa Bruno. The full program of the festival is available at www.skopjefilmfestival.com.mk
