Pankot ne e mrtov (Punk's Not Dead)
Director: Vladimir Blazevski
Protagonists of this black-comedy are punks who deliberately remained at the margins in muddy times of Macedonian transition. The routine of their outsider's survival is disturbed by an offer to make a reunion of their one-time cult punk band and play at some bizarre "multi-cultural-happening", which is to prove the false image of Macedonia as a land with relaxed ethnic tensions.
Senki (Shadows)
Written and directed by: Milcho Manchevski
Lazar Perkov, 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. Lazar is confronted by a series of people who appear to die time and again, and always deliver the cryptic message "Return what is not yours. Have respect." Experiencing such visions in dreamland is one thing, but when they begin to invade his waking life, Lazar quickly draws the conclusion that these apparitions are simply lost souls who have yet to find peace in the afterlife.
Bal-Can-Can (Balcancan)
Boldly antic and filled with flights of fancy, director Darko Mitrevski's epic comedy has a whirlwind comic energy of its own. Humor modulates from the surreal to the fantastic, yet as the film progresses and issues of Balkan identity come to the fore, the line between comedy and tragedy becomes exhilaratingly tangled. When Trendafil attempts an escape from war-ravaged Macedonia, his mother-n-law dies from heat exhaustion. He calls upon Santino, a lovable lowlife linked to him by their past, and the two must take the grandmother back in an adventure mixed with the danger and terror of civil war and the absurdity of transporting a dead woman across countries in a rolled up carpet.
Golemata Voda (The Great Water)
Based on a children's book written by Zivko Cingo in the 1970s, the movie is about the difficult transition in Macedonia after World War II.
The film begins in the present as old Lem (Meto Jovanovski), Macedonian politician who is experiencing a heart attack and while he is being wheeled into a hospital and examined and wired, he has memory flashbacks to his childhood in 1945. He is brought to the 'orphanage' where orphans are children of the enemies of the new regime. There he learns how to adjust to the role of obedient brainwashing.
He becomes mesmerized by a new kid, Isak, a beautiful and charismatic boy. The struggles quietly underplaying all of the camp surface activity are many: the dichotomy of a Communist ideology removing the Church from existence with a people dependent upon the spiritual values of religion, the Stalin/Tito issue, the adjustments to the policies of Communist regime in a country where fierce national pride had ruled, and the depersonalization of children into political pawns despite the need for role models and the luxury of growing up with friends and confidants.
1977. Ispravi se Delfina by Aleksandar Gjurchinov
1980. Olovna Brigada by Kiril Cenevski
1986. Happy New Year by Stole Popov
1988. Vikend na Mrtovci by Kole Angelovski
1991. Tetoviranje by Stole Popov
1994. Before the Rain by Milcho Manchevski
1997. Gypsy Magic by Stole Popov
1997. Preku Ezeroto by Antonio Mitrikeski
1998. Zbogum na 20-tiot Vek by Aleksandar Popovski and Darko Mitrevski
2001. Dust by Milcho Manchevski
2003. Kako Los Son by Antonio Mitrikeski
2004. Iluzija by Sbetozar Ristovski
2004. Golemata Voda by Ivo Trajkov
2005. Bal-Can-Can by Darko Mitrevski
2006. The Secret Book by Vlado Cvetanovski
2007. Shadows by Milcho Manchevski
2011. Punk's Not Dead by Vladimir Blazevski