Bitola, 23 July 2025 (MIA) — Bitola's Ilinden Days International Ethnographic Film Festival will screen Wednesday four documentaries filmed in Turkiye, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Turkish filmmakers Adem Giliz and Yılmaz Demir's "Canımın Yarısı" ("Half of My Life," 2022) is a story on the craft of basket weaving.

The Argentine-Uzbek film "Esperando al mar" ("Waiting for the Sea," 2024) by Lucas Peñafort and Fernando González is about the drying of the Aral Sea, a salt lake between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, which began shrinking in the 1960s and dried up into desert by the 2010s.

The Afghan film "Dera" (2018) by Omid Ahmad Adrak tells the story of a poor family from a remote and deprived village in Afghanistan.

Nedim Lončarević's "Zadnji teferič na Čevljanovićima" ("The Last Fair in Čevljanovići," 2025) is a documentary about an outdoor festival in Bosnia and Herzegovina featuring a bullfight.

Dutch director Antonio Paoletti's "The Hundred Columns of Skopje" (2024), which captures the everyday life of Skopje’s inhabitants against the surreal backdrop of Skopje 2014's neoclassical and baroque architecture, premiered at the Ilinden Days IEFF Tuesday.

Now in its fourth year, the ethnographic festival aims to showcase films exploring the cultures, society and the lives of the people across the world, organizers said.

This year's festival began on July 19 and runs through Sunday. mr/