Katina Ivanova

Three Macedonian women have to contend with control over their bodies, tradition, loyalty, pregnancy and adoption. They have not set out to change the world or society, but their struggle to become mothers makes them unlikely heroines. The three bittersweet stories, one medieval, two contemporary, mirror and contrast one another, exploring themes of love, trust and motherhood.

An unexpected meeting between a young man and an elderly woman intertwines their lives forever.

An intriguing story about a girl with a lot of problems and three men trying to make a film.

A young Roma girl named Fati finds out about her grandmother’s illness—anemia due to iron-deficiency. Disappointed because of her lack of money to buy the necessary medicine, she sees a notice in a discarded newspaper: ‘Ecological Action: wagons for old iron arrive in train station for recycling’. She comes up with a creative plan and goes to see Andrej, the local mafia boss who often visits Grandmother Fatima for fortunetelling. The superstitious boss orders his bodyguards to rob the train and deliver the iron to the old lady. Amazed by the ironic story, the police officers release Perhan and help to obtain the necessary medication for Fatima.

Igor, a police officer from Skopje, accidentally kills a civilian. He accepts an offer from his superior to go unpunished, but on the condition that he will be transferred to a border village, as far away from Skopje as possible.

Lena is a young girl starting and ending her day alone, in empty apartment, walking on the empty streets, working in empty studio, living in empty town. On the same day of her marriage proposal, her boyfriend got hit by a bus and dies. The accident completely changes her life and reality. She lives in memory of her boyfriend and nothing else matters for her. During her everyday obligations she doesn’t notice anything around her.She is alone.

Film about the legend of Rada's Bridge in the city of Kratovo.

When the war in Yugoslavia breaks out, an army officer who's ethnic Slovenian yet still believes in Yugoslavia, decides to move to Belgrade. The country continues to fall apart and so does his family failing to find acceptance there.

The story of is placed at the end of the 19th and at the second half of the 20th century. The locations are different and completely opposite: the rural Macedonia at one hand, and the urban environment of an industrial region in Belgium at another...

In modern-day Macedonia, East Indian gypsy Taip (Miki Manojlovic) becomes friends with UN peacekeeper Riju and introduces him to his life of squalor. When Taip's mother dies, he collects government money for the funeral -- but then she comes back to life. Shown at the 1997 Montreal Film Festival.

A tragicomedy on displaced people in the post-Communist era. Its protagonist are mostly oldtimers from the circus world and the variety stage. When the circus burns down and the "last performance" ends in tragedy, the fault for the loss is laid upon corrupt officials and smalltime gangsters. Veteran screen star Meri Boshkova - who played the title role in the first Macedonian feature film made, Frosina (1952) - can be seen in the role of Mimi, a woman at the dumpyard who lives with her dreams.

An omnibus with 3 segments: The Bird Urubu and Virgin, Wonderful World and Devil in the Heart, sometimes referred to as separate movies.

Through fragments of the life of Boris and his son Matej, the film is about the conflict of generations, the gap created by the ideological coloration that one has and the other does not have. Political prisoner Boris, after spending several years in prison, returns home. After the divorce with his wife, in his apartment now live his son Matej, a grown man who is trying to earn his living as a musician, his girlfriend Mira and a hitchhiker that Matej found on the road.

Life and work of Saint Kliment of Ohrid, a medieval Slav saint, scholar, writer and patron saint of the Republic of Macedonia.

Macedonian TV drama.

La historia tiene lugar durante la Edad Media en Serbia, durante la invasión Otomana. Banovic Strahinja sale de caza cuando un bandido turco, Alija, ataca su castillo. Los turcos matan a todos sus siervos y secuestran a su amada Andja. Strahinja acude a su suegro, un poderoso duque, pero éste rechaza ayudarle, para él, su hija ya está muerta, habiéndose convertido en concubina de los turcos. Strahinja se tendrá que conformar con un puñado de esclavos para rescatar a su amada.

A young painter comes to the monastery where he's supposed to paint Virgin Mary. There he meets and falls in love with a beautiful novice named Agripina, eventually modeling his artwork by her appearance. This gets him in trouble with the church canons and Mother Superior, and he leaves.

Macedonian TV drama.

Macedonian TV movie.

A small village in the valley, where young people traditionally go to work in overseas countries. Gligor also intended to leave several times, but changed his mind at the last moment. This time, he was determined to finally go to Canada. On his way, the love of a village woman prevented him.

1939, right before the beginning of the Second World War in Europe. Aleksandar Pingo, young, handsome lawyer from Veles, Macedonia, far on the south of the Balkans, lives his days as a bachelor.