Melbourne 21st - 30th September. Perth 6th October. Newcastle 6th October. Auckland 13th - 14th October. Sydney 24th - 25th November

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1 MFF2012_A2_poster.indd 2 9/16/2012 9:54:24 PM Australasian premiere of Milcho Manchevski s award winning masterpiece Mothers Melbourne 21st - 30th September Perth 6th October Newcastle 6th October Auckland 13th - 14th October Sydney 24th - 25th November /macedonianfilm

2 THE MFF STORY What once began as an idea continues as a tradition! Mission Our mission is to honour, promote and nurture Macedonian cinema from local and international artists, while fostering cross-cultural communication. The Macedonian Film Festival group is a not for profit organisation comprised of enthusiastic volunteers with a common interest in supporting the art of cinematography from Macedonia, both locally and abroad. Since its inception, the MFF has had the support of the Macedonian Consulate General in Melbourne, Ministry of Culture of Macedonia, Film Fund and Cinemateque of Macedonia. Vision Our vision is to showcase films by Macedonian film makers and films promoting Macedonia from around the world, to the Australian and New Zealand public. We also encourage new and emerging talent by offering them the opportunity for their films to be shown during the festival. 2 3

3 ЗА ФЕСТИВАЛОТ Она што некогаш започна како идеја, продолжува како традиција! Голема чест и задоволство ни претставува да Ви го презентираме 4-иот по ред Македонски филмски фестивал во Австралија и втор по ред во Нов Зеланд. Македонски филмски фестивал започна како идејаи разговор помеѓу неколкумина пред само неколку години. Денес е веќе традиција со која се стремиме да ја постигнеме нашата најголема цел, промовирање на македонскиот талент и идентитет, како и зачувување на македонските културни вредности и македонската култура. МФФ ви нуди единствена можност да ги погледнете на филмско платно најдобрите остварувања на македонската кинематографија и со тоа да ни помогнете да го промовираме македонскиот талент како и историјата и стремежите на современата Македонија на пошироката јавност во Австралија и Нов Зеланд De Niro ristorante, pizzeria, bar SHOP R Elliott Street Auckland CBD 09/ Оваа година со гордост Ви го претставуваме филмот Мајки на еден од нашите најдобри режисери, Милчо Манчевски како и филмот Панкот не е мртов на Владимир Блажевски, филм кој е добитник на многубројни награди и ги освојува фестивалите ширум Европа. Филмовите ќе се прикажуваат во Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sydney како и во Auckland во Нов Зеланд. Како културен настан, Македонскиот филмски фестивал ја поддржува слободата на мислата и информацијата, како и различностите во културното изразување кои им овозможуваат на поедицните да ги споделат своите идеи, вредности и искуства. За крај, сакаме да искажеме голема благодарност до сите наши спонзори и поддржувачи како и голема благодарност до Министерството за Култура и Министерството за Надворешни работи на Република Македонија. Доколку и Вие сакате да учествувате во организацијата на Македонскиот филмски фестивал 2013 или да се промовирате како спонзор, Ве молиме да не контактирате преку електронска пошта: com.au. Од тимот на МФФ

4 MACEDONIAN CINEMA The cinematic history of Macedonia started over a century ago with the Brothers Manaki in Bitola which was at the time a very important cultural centre in the Balkans. Already noted photographers, their first moving pictures was of their 114 year old grandmother, an extraordinarily expressive and suggestive piece which became the starting point of the Macedonian cinematic opus. The first Macedonian feature film was Frosina released in June 1952, the first colour feature film Miss Stone was released only 6 years later, and was given an honorary diploma at the Festivals in Edinburgh (1960) and New Delhi (1961). Over the years, the nation s cinematography captured the history, culture and everyday life of the Macedonian people in such a unique way and technique that kept one generation s traditions available to the next. Macedonian cinema received world recognition in 1994, when Milcho Manchevski s Before the Rain swept festivals in Europe with 16 major awards, including the Golden Lion at Venice, and received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film. The Vienna Courier heralded Before the Rain means the return of the power of the European film. Still, the best is yet to be seen, and there is no better time than the present, at the Macedonian Film Festival

5 FILMS:FEATURES Silver Award for Film as Art Phenomenona MIFF 2011 Directing Award LIFFE 2011 Mothers Majki Year: 2010 R (18+) Macedonia Director: Milcho Manchevski Genre: Drama, Documentary Duration: 123 min Language: Macedonian, English, (English subt.) 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. film. dedicated, neglectful, loving, absent. Through these women, Manchevski renders the faces of human tragedy and joy. Employing an innovative structure, the three stories in MOTHERS highlight the delicate relationships of truth and fiction, of drama and documentary. What is the nature of truth? Directed with a keen eye for contemporary Macedonia, the film eschews neat narrative devices and pushes the viewer to confront their own definitions of filmic reality. In a traditional structuralist manner, the structure of the film itself (two parts fiction and one part documentary) becomes part of its message. Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) Germany // Toronto International Film Festival 2010-Canada // ICFF Manaki Brothers 2010, Bitola-Macedonia // Sao Paolo International Film Festival 2010-Brazil // Brno Cinema Mundi 2011-Poland // Cleveland International Film Festival 2011, Cleveland-USA // Sofia International Film Festival 2011-Bulgaria // Vilnius International Film Festival // Istanbul International Film Festival 2011-Turkey // Las Palmas de Gran Canaria International Film Festival Spain Marking the return of Milcho Manchevski, MOTHERS portrays all types: 8 9

6 FILMS:FEATURES WINNER Best Screenplay Monaco Charity Film Festival 2012 WINNER Crystal Bear Award IFFCV WINNER Audience Award SIFF 2012 Punks Not Dead Pankot ne e mrtov Year: 2011 R (18+) Macedonian Director: Vladimir Blazevski Genre: Comedy Duration: 104 min Language: Macedonian, English (English subt.) Mirsa has an almost herculean task ahead of him: after a period of 17 years, to locate and convince all the band members, some of whom left Macedonia after the break-up of Yugoslavia, to perform together once again in concert. On a minimum budget, director and screenwriter Vladimir Blaževski has turned in a punchy independent road movie about people for whom punk isn t just music, it s their whole life. He also uses black humour and insight to touch upon more serious issues and, thanks to the documentary techniques he employs in the film, he manages to achieve a sense of absolute conviction. KVIFF Mirsa is the former singer in what was once the most popular punk band International Short Film Festival Asterfest, Strumica, Macedonia 2012 // European Film Festival in Macedonia, but it broke up years ago. He s now forty, still living with his Palic, Serbia 2011 // Motovun Film Festival, Croatia 2011 // Raindance Film Festival, London UK, 2011 // Thessaloniki International Film Festival Greece 2011 // Sligo New Music Film Festival, mother, and he occasionally sells drugs for Albanian dealer Gzim, who in Ireland 2011 // Gijon International Film Festival, Spain 2011 // Kolkata International Film Festival, return supplies him with grass on the cheap. Then one day Gzim comes up India 2011 // Leskovac International Film Festival Serbia, 2011 // Belgrade Author s Film Festival, with an idea: Mirsa ought to get his band back together so they can perform Serbia, 2011 at a benefit concert in Debar, a Macedonian city with an Albanian majority population

7 FILMS:SHORTS Bit Player Level 1, 158 Swanston Street, Melbourne, Australia Year: 2011 R (18+) Macedonia Director: Igor Aleksov Genre: Drama (short) Duration: 22 min Language: Macedonian (English subt.) 438 Sydney Road, Brunswick, Victoria 3056 Ph: (03) Sister Anna listens to the radio while cleaning the monastery yard. Among other news there is information about a new film by cult director of the communist era, Vojo Pandilovski. While listening to this, Anna thinks back to her youth in the seventies when she dreamed of becoming an actress. Her appearance at a casting call for her first role destroys her dreams. Chosen to be featured in a rape scene the young director, Pandilovski, does the unthinkable. Her attempt to search for justice begins her hellish journey from her dream of being actress, through Communist torture and finally to life in monastic quarters. It s a story of double standards between the Communist regime and a bit player, hypocrisy and the cruelty of the past. -MFF2011, Toronto 12 13

8 SESSIONS Melbourne September All festival films are restricted to 18 years and over. Please check the film classifications. Films will commence at the advertised starting time, ending times may vary according to the session program. Dates, times and programmes are correct at the time of publication, but may need to be altered. Please check our website for updates. All non-english films have English subtitles where specified. FILMS Date Time Venue VIP Opening Party Friday, 21 September 7:00pm Sun Theatre, Yarraville I m Yours / Little Match Girl / Mothers Friday, 21 September 9:00pm Sun Theatre, Yarraville Bit Player / Punks Not Dead Saturday, 22 September 8:00pm Sun Theatre, Yarraville End of the World / Punks Not Dead Friday, 28 September 8:30pm Readings Cinema, Epping Glow / Mothers Sunday, 30 September 7:00pm Readings Cinema, Epping Perth 6 October Glow / Mothers Saturday, 6 October 7:00pm Readings Cinema, Belmont Newcastle 6 October Little Match Girl / Mothers Saturday, 6 October 7:00pm Readings Cinema, Charleston Auckland (NZ) October Little Match Girl / Mothers Saturday, 13 October 7:00pm Academy Cinema, Auckland Bit Player / Punks Not Dead Sunday, 14 October 7:00pm Academy Cinema, Auckland Sydney November Bit Player / Punks Not Dead Saturday, 24 November 8:00pm Hoyts Paris EQ, Sydney, Reddakh / Wrong Game / One / End of the World / Glow Sunday, 25 November 4:00pm Hoyts Paris EQ, Sydney, Escaping War / Mothers Sunday, 25 November 7:00pm Hoyts Paris EQ, Sydney, 14 15

9 13BOWL VIC NSW SA QLD THEATRES Open Night (VIP Party & film) $50 All tickets, all sessions $15 * All prices include GST Melbourne Sun Theatre 8 Ballarat St, Yarraville Victoria 3013 (03) Tickets at box office Perth Belmont Reading Cinemas Cnr Knutsford Ave & Fulham Street, Belmont 6104 WA Tickets at box office or readingcinemas.com.au Readings Cinemas Crn High & Cooper St, Epping 3076 VIC Phone : (03) Tickets at box office or readingcinemas.com.au Newcastle Newcastle Reading Cinemas Charlestown Square, 30 Pearson St, Charlestown Tickets at box office or readingcinemas.com.au Trulase Beauty 310 Burwood Road, Belmore NSW 2192 Phone: Mobile: info@trulasebeauty.com.au Like us on Facebook & receive $5 off your next treatment. Auckland (NZ) Auckland Academy Cinema 44 Lorne Street, Auckland Central Tickets at box office or iconiccinemas.co.nz Sydney Hoyts Cinema Paris EQ Lang Road on Bent Street, Moore Park Tickets at box office or moshtix. com.au for VIP party tickets Festival tickets, once acquired are non-refundable and non-exchangeable. Lost or stolen tickets will not be replaced or refunded. All seating is unreserved. 17

10 FILMS:SHORTS At Global Pictures, our focus is to provide our clients with first class electronic media: - Corporate video production - Marketing and Promotional DVDs - OHS Training and Competency videos - Television commercials - Web and Online video - Scripting and DVD replication - Graphic design - Photography Little Match Girl Year: 2011 R (18+) Macedonian Director: Filip Matevski Genre: Drama (short) Duration: 10 min Language: Macedonian (English subt.) The film is based on the story The little girl with the matches by Hans Christian-Andersen. The main character in the story is a little girl, a homeless orphan who instead of begging is selling matches on the side of the street. The movie follows the death of the little girl who dies from cold on New Years Eve

11 FILMS:SHORTS Glow Year: 2011 R (18+) Macedonia Director: Tomislav Aleksov Genre: Comedy, Drama (short) Duration: 22 min Language: Macedonian (English subt.) The action takes place in one day, on the street and in the fancy part of the town. It is a hot day in August. There is a truck parked with watermelons for sale. A father and his son, both farmers, are selling the watermelons. The son, 15-year-old Dime, glares at a girl who lives here, the 14-year-old Eli. They grow to like each other, exchange shy glances, their first meeting is puzzling. The fluid creates a frail glow of first love BUT! The adults from both sides take part in the naïve and innocent game. End of the World Year: 2011 R (18+) Macedonian Director: Jani Bojadzi Genre: Drama (short) Duration: 21 min Language: Macedonian (English subt.) At the end of summer on Balkan has great drought. The migratory birds who are thirsty and cold are dying on the way to their home.two people, father and son, are trying to make money by searching sources of water, which is old family tradition. One day they will find the gold cable. The son will cut the cable, although his father says no, but the cable was powered the Sun and the Moon. While they dig, stars like lampions are disappearing one by one. The Moon disappears last

12 FILMS:SHORTS Reddakh Year: 2012 R (18+) Macedonian Director: Vladimir Mitrevski Genre: Documentary (short) Duration: 28 min Language: Macedonian (English subt.) A gamer suffers a major family financial problem and becomes one of the best players on Conquer Online, an online multi-player game. One Year: 2009 R (18+) Macedonian Director: Vardan Tozija Genre: Drama (short) Duration: 19 min Language: Macedonian (English subt.) A man wakes up in a middle of a dark, isolated forest. No signs of people, civilization no memories of a previous past, no identification he s ALONE. Wondering through the ruins of some desolated concrete object, he finds a GIRL scared, silent. He leaves her, promises he ll return after he finds some help, someone to explain. In the forest, he finds remains of a forest camp and remains of people evidence of a brutal massacre. And then, the terrifying screams, non human or animal, appear throughout the forest. In the same time, the MAN and the GIRL step into a frantic run and hide game with the faceless persecutors. Somehow, they escape. Or were they sparred? 22 23

13 FILMS:LOCAL DIRECTORS Escaping War Year: 2012 R (18+) Macedonian Director: Ben Kumanovski Genre: Documentary (short) Duration: 10 min Language: Macedonian (English subt.) Escaping War is a journey into the lives of two individuals faced with death and destruction during wartime. In 1948, Doksa was expelled from her village in Aegean Macedonia during the Greek Civil War. In 1992, Serge found himself trapped between the fighting during the Siege of Sarajevo. This is not a historical or political documentary, but a milestone in storytelling composed of the true accounts from those who were directly and deeply affected. This is Escaping War. Wrong Game Year: 2012 R (18+) English Director: Omer Zekirovski Genre: Drama (short) Duration: 10 min Language: English Wrong game is a triller drama in which we are acquainted with the life stories of two ex best friends from childhood, Paul and Bill who are also leaders of two known city gangs. The story begins from the moment when Paul gets out of jail and Bill preparares prepared for revenge on the murder of his father, a policemen shot by Paul by mistake when he was being arrested. Their mutual friend John, previously working for Bill and now is working for Paul is making this story more dramatic when trying to help himself is making it hard for his friends

14 MFF TEAM SPONSORS The Macedonian Film Festival is made up entirely of volunteers that donate their time, skills and effort to run the festival each year. We would also like to thank the Consulate-General of the Republic of Macedonia in Melbourne and the Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia to Australia for their support in realising this year s festival. Melbourne (HQ) Sonia Pilovska Mary Sabotkoski Beti Necovski Ljupka Arsovski Darko Sabotkoski Sydney Betty Babamovski Peter Bosevski Auckland Bojan Suleski Newcastle Anthony L askovski Supporters Igor Zvezdakoski Milorad Dodevski Anton Blajer To contact the volunteers organising the Macedonian Film Festival, please do so at info@macedonianfilmfestival.com.au The Macedonian Film Festival organisers would like to thank our valued national and local sponsors. Without their financial and inkind support, the festival would not be possible. Gold Llyod s International College Silver Global Pictures Astir Images Local Ray White Real Estate, Ilija Menkinoski Melbourne Sash Petrovski - CommBank De Niro Restaurant Ray White Real Estate, Zarko Bozovik Auckland Steve & Natalie Vrtkovski King Pin Bowling Lounge Glamorous Photography Fusion English Supporters M16 Productions Leb i Sol on Tour University of Wollongwong - Macedonian Society Macedonian Community Council of Melbourne and Victoria Inc Bona Fides Cafe Restaurant Media Partners Macedonian Film Festival Incorporated ABN: info@macedonianfilmfestival.com.au 27

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