10 Films & TV Shows Set In North Macedonia
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You Won't Be Alone
π²π° North Macedonia The 19th CenturySupernatural Horror set in an 1800s isolated Macedonian mountain village.
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Honeyland
π²π° North Macedonia The 2010sWhen nomadic beekeepers break Honeylandβs basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.
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God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
π²π° North MacedoniaIn Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.
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Recep Ivedik 5
π²π° North Macedonia πΉπ· TurkeyA Folk Hero β During his visit of condolence to Ismet's funeral, Recep Ivedik feels sorry about Ismet's remaining family members due to his latest unfinished job contract which would cause hard financial situation for the family. Therefore, Recep decides to finish Ismet's last job by replacing himself as a bus driver and to transport group of athletes. Although Recep and his accompanying friend Nurullah were expecting this could be a short trip, they learn that it is not because they have to transport young national athletes to sports organization in a foreign country. This becomes the beginning for them to have irreversible adventure. When they are on the road, unfortunate things happen and crisis appears for the team. Recep, who believes only in victory, takes control of the situation and develops his own methods in order to make the team successful while he face with all funny events.
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Balkan Is Not Dead
π²π° North Macedonia The 1900sA Macedonian family from Bitola at the turn of the twentieth century tries to survive, preserve its roots and remain together.
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The Third Half
π²π° North MacedoniaSpitz is the German-Jewish coach of the football team Macedonia during World War II. Under his leadership, the team fights to become the champion of Bulgaria's National Football League
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Ulysses' Gaze
π¦π± Albania π§π¬ Bulgaria π§π¦ Bosnia and Herzegovina π·πΈ Serbia π¬π· Greece π²π° North Macedonia π·π΄ Romania"A," a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas to attend a special screening of one of his extremely controversial films. But A's real interest lies elsewhere--the mythical reels of the very first film shot by the Manakia brothers, who, at the dawn of the age of cinema, tirelessly criss-crossed the Balkans and, without regard for national and ethnic strife, recorded the region's history and customs. Did these primitive, never-developed images really exist?
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Before the Rain
England π²π° North MacedoniaOnce You Know The Faces You Will Begin To Understand The Story β 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.
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Skoplje '63
π²π° North Macedonia The 1960s"Skoplje '63" is a 1964 Yugoslavian documentary film directed by Veljko BulajiΔ 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, BulajiΔ spent 12 months editing the footage at Jadran Film studios.
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Frosina
π²π° North MacedoniaThe first Macedonian Movie β 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...
