Vladimir Samoilovski

Movies

The Ordinary Eli
Director of Photography
Eli has only two personality traits: she works as a security guard at the Modern Arts Museum and her only friend is her golden pet fish. The loneliness of the modern man, the secluded life as if living in a fish tank and the internal cry for freedom are the main leitmotifs of this short film.
The Vanished
Director of Photography
Far from his hometown, Beqir spends most of his time in front of the typewriter machine rather than with his wife. Nostalgic for his homeland and his people, he is no longer at peace with himself, so by writing his memoirs he tries to unveil something important, something he hides from his wife and even himself.
North Pole
Director of Photography
Margo wants to lose her virginity in order to finally be just like everybody else.
The Comrade
Director of Photography
The Comrade is a story about a bitter old man, probably the last living WW2 veteran, whose memories of the years spent as a high ranking official in ex-Yugoslavia are his only connection to reality, while, against all odds, he still goes on living according to the rules of the old system, a system which has been long gone.
The Return
Cinematography
A young Albanian immigrant and his French fiance decide to pay a surprise visit to his native village. Their surprise turns sour when his family learns the true reasons behind their son's return.
Ambi
Director of Photography
It’s another ordinary night for Deno and Sara. Their father is drunk as usual, and the two of them are taking care of him as usual. But in this instance, straying from routine brings their future into question. Ambi is a short movie about the adult in the child and the child in the adult. It is a movie about changing roles, the darkest nights, addiction, and failed trust. But it is also a movie about humanity and love, which conquer all.
The Man in the Habit of Hitting Me on the Head with an Umbrella
Director of Photography
Every day in Petar's life is worse than the previous one, which means that every new day is the worst day in his life, until... one day a mysterious, mute stranger starts hitting Petar at his head with an umbrella. He hits without an intention to stop. Whatever Petar does to liberate himself from this menace, the strange little man is constantly by his side.
Mothers
Director of Photography
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.
Remain Upright!!
Camera Department Manager
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!
Mirage
Cinematography
As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Veta
Director of Photography
There is a myth of a bus that traveled every day from Skopje, Macedonia to Belgrade, Yugoslavia during the NATO bombing in 1999. A similar bus is depicted in Veta. There are no specifics to the story. It is the creator's response to the horrors that have haunted the Balkans for the past ten years. The film does not offer an answer or take sides, it concentrates on the psychology of war and feeling of no exit.
The Letter
Director of Photography
The film is about a postman who has the "power" to know the content of the letters without opening them and he can predict the consequences that those letters cause.
13 Hofmanova Street
Director of Photography
A story between a dream and reality for the perverted games in the head of a lonely, middle-aged man, who with the help of a phantom woman dreams of his own harem.
Goodbye, 20th Century
Director of Photography
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman tried to discover his destiny in order to learn how to die. As he enters the whirling circles of time, we discover the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
Before the Rain
Steadicam Operator
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during 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.
Macedonian Saga
Cinematography
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.
Light Gray
Cinematography
An omnibus with 3 segments: The Bird Urubu and Virgin, Wonderful World and Devil in the Heart, sometimes referred to as separate movies.
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Director of Photography
Alone without the protection of his father, a child embarks on a quest for answers and his destiny in a dangerous, post apocalyptic world.