Dans la Macédoine du XIXe siècle, une jeune fille est enlevée puis transformée en sorcière par un esprit ancien. Curieuse de la vie en tant qu'humain, la sorcière tue accidentellement un paysan du village voisin et prend alors la forme de sa victime pour vivre dans sa peau. Sa curiosité allumée, elle continue à manier cet horrible pouvoir pour comprendre ce que cela signifie d'être humain.
Trois histoires s'entrecroisent sur fond de conflit ethnico-religieux entre Macédoniens orthodoxes et Albanais musulmans.
Dans un village macédonien abandonné, Hatidze, une femme d'un peu plus de cinquante ans, vêtue d'un chemisier jaune vif et d'un foulard vert, gravit une colline pour aller surveiller ses colonies d'abeilles nichées dans les rochers. En chantant un chant secret, elle manœuvre doucement le nid d'abeille sans filet ni gants. De retour chez elle, Hatidze s'occupe de ses ruches faites à la main et de sa mère alitée, se rendant parfois dans la capitale pour vendre sa récolte. Un jour, une famille itinérante s’installe à côté et le royaume pacifique de Hatidze cède le pas à des machines rugissantes, sept enfants hurleurs et 150 vaches. Cependant, Hatidze donne amicalement ses conseils d’apiculture éprouvés, son affection, et même son brandy spécial. Mais bientôt, Hussein, le patriarche de la famille itinérante, prend une série de décisions qui pourraient détruire à jamais le mode de vie de Hatidze.
100 years since the beginning of First World War. Locality - French cemetery in Bitola. State protocol. There are deputies, ministers, ambassadors, military attaches, consuls, honorary consuls, media present - Priests - Orthodox, Catholic, Muslim. - Military band. Jean Batiste Valerie, an old man of about 77 years of age, arrives in Bitola for the first time. Tiny, petite, with thin and gray hair, arrives late at the sad ceremony held in honor of the fallen French soldiers in the First World War. According to correspondence and information from the French army, his predecessor with the same name and surname must be located somewhere nearby. The ceremony had already begun.
RROMANI SOUL traces the true origin of the Rroma people. Through rituals, song and dance we follow emblematic figure and "Queen of the Gypsies" Esma Redzepova to Macedonia, south of France and finally to India. The film reveals for the first time ever that the true and unique origin of the Rroma is Kannauj in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Harcelé à l'école, délaissé par ses parents, un garçon de 13 ans trouve refuge dans l'écriture, jusqu'à ce qu'un mystérieux soldat lui enseigne un nouveau talent.
After losing his job on the first day of school, an idealistic teacher attempts to get rehired by locking his students in the classroom and forcing them to resolve a long-standing feud between their villages.
"Skoplje '63" is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko Bulajić about the 1963 Skopje earthquake (Skoplje, per film title, is the Serbo-Croatian spelling of Skopje). The filming started three days after the earthquake and lasted for four months. After that, Bulajić spent 12 months editing the footage at Jadran Film studios.
Serafim is a vampire hunter - who wanders through Macedonian villages and destroys the vampired dead man for money. His apprentice is young fellow named Fidan, who Serafim teaches the rough and dangerous vampire craft, along with the alphabet and the insecure life in Macedonia. Vampire man and his student in their surroundings get in struggle with: Macedonian vampires, Turkish Authority and with Komiti (Macedonian Revolutionaries), also with Avdzi - Taburi (paid hunters of Komiti). Fidan experiences damnation of the vampire skill, who doesn't know if Serafim is a God's angel or servant of Devil.
Traditions during Easter holidays in the remote village of Grešnica. The film was a research project of the newly opened Ethnological Museum to preserve the disappearing customs at least on film for future generations.
Early Balkan footage.
The arrival of the young teacher Damjan in one village in western Macedonia shakes the usual daily life of its inhabitants who belong to different religions.
A short film that contains short clips of the fishing method.
The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.
Godina was ordered to make a short film glorifying the army, but instead made a film about making love, not war. The censors hacked it up, but he managed to save one complete copy.
The first Macedonian Movie from 1952- Frosina is one of the many Macedonian wives whose husbands are economic emigrants abroad. Marriage does not bring them a family, only the burden of life itself. After her husband's short visits, she gives birth to children who do not live long because of the poverty into which they have been born. She gives birth to them alone, and she buries them alone. Only her last child, Klime, survives all his various illnesses and grows up to be her one joy in life. The war breaks out...
The story takes place in March of 1943 during transportations of Jews from Skopje. Nikola is a surgeon who was taken his working license away, and spends evening hours at the local bar where German officers, along with Bulgarian officer Simeonov, play Russian roulette with their gun pointed at prisoner's head. After suicide of one German mayor, Nikola and the prisoner escape.
The inhabitants of a small village in a backward area of Macedonia earn their living by sending their men abroad in search of employment. Three young girls, named Elica, Maria and Nikolina live and work as schoolteachers in the village. Each of them try to make sense of their lives, in that situation where it is imposed on them. In the village the greatest problem is the supply of water. Spring water is carried by Marko from the distant mountains Marko is falls in love with the poor girl Kate...
The natural beauties of Ohrid Lake, the old town and bazaar showing the architecture and archaeological excavations.
A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".