The Romanian Minister Istrate Visits Resen (1911)

마케도니아의 어느 산골 마을에 늙은 어머니와 함께 살아가는 아티제는 매일 돌산을 넘으며 자연이 허락하는 만큼의 소산물을 얻는다. 지루하지만 능숙한 그녀의 움직임을 따라 자연이 펼쳐지고 그녀가 벌을 다루며 꿀을 얻는 방식에서 조화롭게 사는 삶의 태도를 목격하게 된다. 그녀의 옆으로 새로운 이웃들이 찾아온다. 그들은 아티제의 지혜와 조언에 따라 그녀가 고수하는 전통적 방식을 배우려 노력하지만 그들의 욕망에 비해 자연은 턱없이 부족하기만 하다. 결국, 서로 다른 삶의 방식은 대립하고 아티제의 꿀벌마저 위기에 놓인다.

성당에서 침묵의 서약을 한 젊은 수도사 키릴은 쫓기고 있는 알바니아 소녀 자밀라를 숨겨주지만 그녀의 말조차 알아듣지 못한다. 어느새 그녀는 그의 마음 속에 자리잡게 되고 무장한 사내들이 그녀를 찾아 성당을 기습할 때도 그는 자신의 평화를 깨트릴 위험에 빠지게 됐다는 사실조차 잊어버린다. 한편 사진편집인 앤은 남편 닉과 종군 사진작가 알렉산더 사이에서 사랑의 갈등을 겪게 되고 알렉산더는 마음의 평화를 찾기 위해 고향으로 돌아간다. 하지만 어느새 그곳도 전쟁의 기운에 휩싸여 있다. 어느날 과거의 연인이었던 안나가 자신의 실종된 딸을 찾아달라고 부탁하자 그는 카메라를 통해서 경험했던 민족분규를 경험하게 된다.

As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.

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.

High in the mountains of Macedonia a team of young film makers are making a documentary about Katerina Vandeva - a descendant of an ancient and very famous family. Several former state and party functionaries interfere in the filmmaking in the hopes of manipulating Katerina's confessions for their own purposes. Nikola, the director, and his friends have to make the choice - whether to compromise with their consciences and their art, (as normally happens here in the Balkans), or whether to preserve Katerina's message.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

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...

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

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...

Early Balkan footage.

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.

A group of crotchety codgers attempt to revive the punk-rock band they all played in 17 years earlier in "Punk Is Not Dead".

"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.

Early Balkan footage.

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.

A group of Macedonian partisans are hiding away in the mountains from Bulgarian fascist authorities that occupy Macedonia.

Newsreel of the visit of sultan Mehmed V Resad to Bitola.

Early Balkan footage.