Skopje, 14 November 2024 (MIA) – Macedonian Film Review, a festival dedicated to Macedonian films awarded at international festivals, starts Thursday in Belgrade’s Parobrod Culture Center. 

Documentaries, feature films and cult classics from Macedonian cinema will be shown at the three-day event, which also features performances by Pijan Slavej and Novogradska, organizers say. 

“Macedonian culture, especially Macedonian cinema and music, are part of the rich heritage, where traditional and modern values are intertwined in an exciting way, which people in Serbia often regard as their own. This notion comes not only from the common social and political past, but also from the artistic ties in the region, where culture and arts have served as a connecting link in the Balkans,” says the press release. 

The documentary “Honeyland”, an Academy Award nominee and a Sundance winner, opens the festival also with a Q&A with its director Tamara Kotevska.

Stole Popov’s “Dae”, the first Macedonian film ever to be nominated for an Academy Award in the best short film category in 1980, will be also screened alongside “North Pole” by Marija Apchevska, nominated for an award at the Cannes Film Festival, and “Bugs” by Igor Ivanov, which won a Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.

Photo: Parobrod Culture Center