DAILY NEWS 2018

September 28, Bitola - Last night, as part of the festival program, the film Persona, directed by Ingmar Bergman, was screened as part of the marking of the 100-year anniversary from the birth of the legendary Swedish film author. The Ambassador of Sweden in Macedonia Mats Staffansson gave his gratitude ahead of the screening to the Manaki Brothers festival

September 28, Bitola - As part of the documentary program, the film Cobra was screened last night, a film about the Olympics-winner Shaban Trstena, directed by Igor Ivanov Izi. He said that he made the film on the invite of the producer Tomi Salkovski and it was a challenge for him to make a documentary film. He didn’t want

The tradition of honoring of the first cinematographers from the Balkans – the Manaki Brothers – by the ICFF Manaki Brothers and the attending festival guests continued in the traditional fashion of visiting and wreath laying at the grave of Milton Manaki at the Vlach cemetery in Bitola. This year, this traditional act was attended by representatives on behalf

Nigel Walters from IMAGO, Federation of world cinematographers with 53 national associations and over 4300 member-cinematographers, is a regular – and zealous! – collaborator of the Manaki Brothers festival for 12 years now. Mr. Walters was until recently the president of IMAGO, and now that function is taken over by Paul René Roestad. When Walters became the president of

Rainer Klasumann knows the Manaki Brothers festival quite well. He won the Golden Camera 300 in 2004 at the 25th Manaki Brothers Festival for the film Head-On, and last year he won the Silver Camera 300 for the film In the Fade, both directed by Fatih Akin. This year, he is a member of the jury that decides upon

September 27, Bitola – Honoring the 100-year anniversary from the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s birth, the film Persona will be screened tonight at the ICFF Manaki Brothers. This film was shot in 1966 on an island in the Baltic Sea where the author himself lived, where he shot his films and where he is buried. On this occasion, the

September 27, Bitola – As part of the ICFF Manaki Brothers, the Cinematheque of Macedonia opened up the exhibition at the Bitola cultural center Magaza last night and started the film screenings that mark the 60-year anniversary from the premiere of the Macedonian feature film Miss Stone, all with the title Miss Stone: Somewhere Between Ellen and Autonomy, where

September 27, Bitola – Sara Logan Hofstein was a guest at the student program last night. But the most interesting moment from this year’s student program was the hangout with Roger Deakins with the students, Gjorgji Pulevski, selector of the student program, says. -The director Gena Teodosievska and I felt that there won’t be enough time for the students

September 27, Bitola –  The selector Ana Vasilevska introduced some of the present representatives in the Makpoint program, Lidija Mojsovska, director of the film The Award, Zagorka Pop-Antoska Andovska, producer of the film Father, and talked about the quality of production of the Macedonian films, as there is an info that barely about 10 films from 307 Macedonian films