Simeon 'Moni' Damevski
2021Cut Here
Kristijan Risteski
Sara Klimoska, Nina Dean
Cut Here is a story about two contrasting worlds and outlooks on life: the world of shallow consumer-ism and trashy mainstream, and the world of marginalized individualism. Nina puts on her best ‘self ’—expensive clothes, lots of makeup, etc.—and leaves her kitsch luxury home. Anna unchains her old bicycle and leaves her semi-derelict building. Nina almost crashes into Anna as she carelessly exits her garage with her girly car. She yells a couple of insults at Anna, and then both resume their journeys to their respective destinations. Their destinations will tell us a lot about the different directions in which their lives are moving.
Cut Here
Коливо
Andrey Volkashin
Labina Mitevska, Simeon Damevski
In a poor Macedonian village, overwhelmed by the daily duties of a typical housewife, DANA's life revolves around her mother, husband and three children. On the day of the traditional pig slaughter, instead of the usual butcher, the appearance of her former lover MARKO, draws her deeply buried secrets and fears back to the surface.
Koliva
Secret Ingredient
Gjorče Stavreski
Blagoj Veselinov, Anastas Tanovski
Vele can’t afford to buy the expensive medications for his father who has cancer. Desperate, he steals marijuana from some criminals, makes a cake with it and gives it to his father, hoping it will reduce his pain. His father’s health miraculously improves, but Vele is suddenly confronted by neighbors who demand the recipe for the “remedial” cake and by the criminals who want their drugs back.
Secret Ingredient
Homo
Igor Ivanov Izi
Aleksandar Matovski Cako, Nataša Petrović
What is Man? “Homo” shows six faces, six phases in cleverly- connected, blackly comic episodes as desperate characters meet unwittingly in a modern metropole in the eternal search for the means to survive, and find some kind of love. The jobless graduate becomes a grave digger, the grieving widow a nun, the priests gamble and gangsters rule the courts. Only the lonely child may find some affection when hope springs eternal.
Only Human
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Teona Strugar Mitevska
Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska
In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Остани исправен!
Kristijan Risteski
Simeon Damevski, Mitko Apostolovski
A clerical worker endures another tedious afternoon with quiet desperation. But a trip to the bank where he encounters a surly teller pushes the mild-mannered clerk over the edge—his quiet desperation becomes the violent despair of a raging beast!
Remain Upright!!
Црвената соба
Kosara Mitik
Dime Iliev, Silvija Stojanovska
A story about Nikola, a retired math teacher, who leads a quiet and private life, until he begins to feel a need to escape the loneliness that slowly is killing him, day by day. He decides it’s time for change and becomes the star of a very popular TV-show called “Love for all”. The concept of the show is to help old, lonely people to find life partners.
The Red Room
Neon Hearts
Ana Jakimska
Simeon Damevski, Gordana Endrovska
On the road where nobody knows him, Petar, a middle-aged truck driver, is free to be himself and live as he wants. However, when his son goes missing, he is determined to find him and bring him back, no matter the consequences.
Neon Hearts
