Milan Tocinovski

Pepo (16) already 3 summers in a row is hoping, longing and trying to play on the better side of the basketball court, where the net is, and where the older guys play their hard and tough streetball games. After many attempts, obstacles and failures to get into the First league streetball game, not only that he’s been mocked by the older players, stubborn Pepo betrays his friends

A promising debut feature tells the story of a young woman returning from America to discover the realities of life in Macedonia, that looks as if it will explode with all the soldiers, corrupt crooks and terrorist idealists.

An omnibus of ten short films by ten young directors.

Merjem-Meri, an unambitious, 30-year-old homemaker and mother to 8-year-old girl Mila, moves back to her parental home after 10 years of marriage. Soon after, Meri realizes she is stuck in a circle of provincial rules and expectations and a complex relationship with her ambitious mother and spoiled younger brother. Her hope to get the custody of her daughter wanes from day to day because she has no chance of finding a permanent job. The only thing that makes her happy, but also makes everyone else look down on her, is participation in an audition for a film role in her neighborhood.

The film tells a story about crime, money, greed and the value of the human soul.

Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela has enough tasty portions to please audiences. Amongst Coira's expansive ensemble are aging street musician Edu, a pair awaking from a one-night stand, a businessman visiting his closeted homosexual brother and a lonely housewife, Sol. Victor and Sol are two of 18 MEALS' most fascinating characters as they each hide something - his sexuality, her depression - from those around them. Best of all is Pedro Alsono as Vladimir, a local celebrity actor who makes a meal for a mystery woman who never arrives. Who hasn't gone to a lot of trouble to do something extra special for someone just to have it go unappreciated?

Jan is the type of romantic malcontent who can't find rest, who continually hurts people and gets hurt himself. This dark, raw and uncompromising Macedonian film presents a gloomy testimony of the degradation of the life of the individual and society as a whole.

KARMA is a short story about the faith of several people, mixed up in a chain of events.

1941, Après l’invasion de la Yougoslavie par l’Allemagne et ses alliés, l’équipe de football de Macédoine est intégrée au championnat de Bulgarie. Or, l’entraîneur de l’équipe est un juif allemand. Et le joueur vedette, Kosta, est amoureux de Rebecca, la fille d’un juif sépharade. Les premières lois anti-juives voient le jour, les premières rafles sont organisées. Pendant ce temps, l’équipe doit participer au championnat organisé par les nazis.

A political drama with elements of a thriller discusses politics, electoral fraud, and the decay of moral values, taking place in the fictional town of Rovte under the idyllic Alps. Franta, a corrupt mayor, is about to lose the election. After a TV debate, where he fails utterly, Franta calls his mistress Jozica in desperation. She advises him to seek the aid of Fleischmann, a criminal who is the only one capable of solving the problem on such short notice. After all, there are only four days left until the elections.