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Milcho Manchevski
Writing
Biography
Milcho Manchevski (Macedonian: Милчо Манчевски) is a New York–based Macedonian film director, photographer and artist. He wrote and directed the feature films Before the Rain (1994), Dust (2001), Shadows (2007) and Mothers (2011), over 50 short forms, including Thursday (2013), the experimental film 1.73 (1984) and the music video Tennessee (1991) for Arrested Development. He has also been a director on HBO's The Wire (2002).
Filmography Movies
Acting
Vanja - Born in Pain
A documentary about the life and career of Vanja Lazarova, the greatest female performer of Macedonian traditional songs, the first Macedonian singer to record phonograms for PHILIPS, and the only Macedonian singer to perform in front of Queen Elizabeth the Second and Sir Winston Churchill at the Royal Albert Hall.
Talking Heads 2021
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Portrait of an Artist: Milcho Manchevski
Step by step, through the story of the movie creation process from an idea, to its realization, we meet Milcho Manchevski - an authentic artist, whose movies bravely defy cliches and usual expectations. The author of movies "Before the Rain", "Dust", "Shadows", "Mothers" and "Bikini Moon" reminds us that a motion picture can be a original work of art.
Maklabas
The agent Ansarov is drawn into the strange, even weird investigation about a number of murders. The victims are agents of various foreign intelligence services. Thanks to his contacts, he finds out all these agents were involved in cruel games concentrated around the search and exploitation of a very rare and precious mineral, even more valuble considering the fact that it is used for producing some very exclusive narcotic. At the same time, the scientific elite is hoping that with this mineral, they can penetrate ther dimensions of the anti-matter. It's been established that the mineral (the Green Diamond) has its own kind of conscience (the aspect of The Cosmic Mind).
Production
Badass Grandmother
One night a grandmother accidentally stays locked in a department store. The path from fear to pleasure due to the new situation changes the grandmother as a person.
Badass Grandmother
One night a grandmother accidentally stays locked in a department store. The path from fear to pleasure due to the new situation changes the grandmother as a person.
The Tenant
A man moves to a new house and through the window notices two naked lovers in the house next door.
The Tenant
A man moves to a new house and through the window notices two naked lovers in the house next door.
Kaymak
A wealthy young couple has a different lifestyle than a neighboring middle-aged couple, but both face intimate issues that impact their private lives.
Kaymak
A wealthy young couple has a different lifestyle than a neighboring middle-aged couple, but both face intimate issues that impact their private lives.
Before the Rain
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Shadows
A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...
Mothers
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.
Mothers
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.
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