List of films from North Macedonia
A list of feature films produced or filmed in the territory of modern-day North Macedonia.
Ottoman Empire
[edit]1900s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Weavers | Manaki Brothers | 1905 | Documentary | First motion picture on the Balkan Peninsula. |
School in an open environment | Manaki Brothers | 1908 | Documentary | |
Parade of military band, chariots and horsemen | Manaki Brothers | 1908 | Documentary | |
Manifestation (with Greek inscriptions) | Manaki Brothers | 1908 | Documentary | |
Manifestation on the occasion of the Young Turk Revolution | Manaki Brothers | 1908 | Documentary | |
Manifestation marking the Hurriyet | Manaki Brothers | 1908 | Documentary | |
Parade marking the Hurriyet | Manaki Brothers | 1908 | Documentary | |
Turks hold speech on Hurriyet | Manaki Brothers | 1908 | Documentary |
1910s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Funeral of Metropolitan Emilianos of Grevena | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Panorama of Grevena | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Romanian Delegation visit to Bitola | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Romanian delegation visiting Gopesh | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Romanian delegation visiting Resen | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Turkish Sultan Mehmed V Reshad Visiting Bitola | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Turkish Sultan Mehmed V Reshad Visiting Salonica | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Church in Grevena | Manaki Brothers | 1911 | Documentary | |
Alexander Karadjordjevic visiting Bitola | Manaki Brothers | 1912 | Documentary | |
Opening city café in Bitola | Manaki Brothers | 1912 | Documentary |
Kingdom of Yugoslavia
[edit]1920s
[edit]Title | Created by | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Macedonia in Pictures | Macedonian Society in Sofia | 1923 | Documentary | Made on behalf 20 years from the Ilinden Uprising. |
1940s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Bombing of Bitola | Milton Manaki | 1940 | War documentary | |
Entering of the National Liberation Army in Bitola | Milton Manaki | 1944 | Documentary |
1950s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Frosina | Vojislav Nanović | 1952 | Social | The first film of independent Socialist Macedonia |
Wolf's Night | France Štiglic | 1955 | Fiction | Volca nok |
Riot Dolls | Dimitrie Osmanli | 1957 | Short film | |
Little Man | Žika Čukulić | 1957 | Drama | Mali covek |
Sun behind bars | Slavko Janevski | 1957 | Social | |
A gift from the space painter | Dimitar Kjostarov | 1957 | Short film | |
Miss Stone | Žika Mitrović | 1958 | Historical | The first Macedonian motion picture in color. |
Evil Visa | France Štiglic | 1959 | Crime fiction | The False Passport |
Three Anne's | Branko Bauer | 1959 | Psychological | Three Girls Named Anna |
Dubrovski | William Diterle | 1959 | Fiction |
1960s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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David, Goliath and a rooster | Slavko Janevski | 1960 | Short | |
Quiet Summer | Dimitrie Osmanli | 1961 | Comedy | First Macedonian Comedy |
The Salonika Terrorists | Žika Mitrović | 1961 | Historical | |
Greeting of Tito in Bitola | Milton Manaki | 1963 | Documentary | |
Under the Same Sky | Ljubiša Georgievski | 1964 | War | Pod isto nebo |
Days of Temptation | Branko Gapo | 1965 | Historical | Also known as Denovi na iskusenie |
To Victory and Beyond | Žika Mitrović | 1966 | War | Also known as To Victory and Further |
Macedonian Blood Wedding | Trajče Popov | 1967 | Historical | |
Memento | Dimitrie Osmanli | 1967 | Psychological | |
Where After the Rain | Vladan Slijepćević | 1967 | Fiction | |
Mountain of Wrath | Ljubiša Georgievski | 1968 | Social | |
War-less Time | Branko Gapo | 1969 | Fiction | |
Republic in Flames | Ljubiša Georgievski | 1969 | Historical |
1970s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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The Price of the City | Ljubiša Georgievski | 1970 | War | Also known as The Price of a Town |
Black Seed | Kiril Cenevski | 1971 | Drama | |
The Macedonian Part of Hell | Vatroslav Mimica | 1971 | War | |
Embrio № M | Petar Gligorovski | 1971 | Animated | First Macedonian fully animated feature film. |
Thirst | Dimitrie Osmanli | 1971 | Social | Also known as Zedj |
Shot | Branko Gapo | 1972 | War | |
Father (We're Cursed, Irene) | Kole Angelovski | 1973 | Psychological | |
Anguish | Kiril Cenevski | 1975 | Historical | Also known as Misery |
The Longest Path | Branko Gapo | 1976 | Historical | Also known as The Longest Journey |
Rise Up, Delfina | Aleksandar Gjurcinov | 1977 | Psychological | Also known as Stand Up Straight Delfina |
Judgement | Trajče Popov | 1977 | War | Also known as The Verdict or Presuda |
Dae | Stole Popov | 1979 | Documentary |
1980s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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The Lead Brigade | Kiril Cenevski | 1980 | Fiction | |
Time Leads | Branko Gapo | 1980 | Social | Vreme, vodi |
The Red Horse | Stole Popov | 1981 | Historical | |
Southern Path | Stevo Crvenkovski | 1982 | Fiction | Juzna pateka |
Opasni trag | Miomir 'Miki' Stamenković | 1984 | Crime, Thriller | |
Haven't I Told You | Stevo Crvenkovski | 1984 | Historical | Neli ti rekov |
Node | Kiril Cenevski | 1985 | War | Also known as Jazol |
Happy New Year '49 | Stole Popov | 1986 | Drama | It was Yugoslavia's submission to the 59th Academy Awards for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. |
Hi-Fi | Vladimir Blaževski | 1987 | Social | |
Cadaver Weekend | Kole Angelovski | 1988 | Comedy | Also known as A Weekend of Deceased Persons |
1990s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Tattoo | Stole Popov | 1991 | Drama | The last Macedonian film before the independence from Yugoslavia. |
Republic of Macedonia
[edit]1990s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Vreme, zivot | Ivan Mitevski | 1992 | Drama, Romance | |
Svetlo sivo | Srđan Janićijević | 1993 | Drama | |
Macedonian Saga | Branko Gapo | 1993 | Melodrama | First Macedonian independent film. |
Before the Rain | Milčo Mančevski | 1994 | Social | The first Macedonian film to be nominated for Academy Award. |
Angel Waste | Dimitrie Osmanli | 1995 | Melodrama | |
Self Destruction | Altanaj Erbil | 1996 | Comedy | |
Gypsy Magic | Stole Popov | 1997 | Melodrama | It was Macedonia's submission to the 70th Academy Awards. |
Over the Lake | Antonio Mitrikjeski | 1997 | Social | |
Goodbye, 20th Century! | Darko Mitrevski | 1998 | Fantasy | It was Macedonia's submission to the 71st Academy Awards. |
Maklabas | Aco Stankovski | 1998 | Experimental |
2000s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Dust | Milčo Mančevski | 2001 | Fiction | The film was nominated for a Golden Reel Award. |
Like a Bad Dream | Antonio Mitrikjeski | 2003 | Fiction | |
The Great Water | Ivo Trajkov | 2004 | Fiction | Macedonia's submission to the 77th Academy Awards. |
Mirage | Svetozar Ristovski | 2004 | Drama | |
How I Killed a Saint | Teona Strugar Mitevska | 2004 | Fiction | |
Bal-Can-Can | Darko Mitrevski | 2005 | Fiction | The highest-grossing Macedonian film until the release of The Third Half. Entered into the 27th Moscow International Film Festival. |
Contact | Sergej Stanojkovski | 2005 | Drama | Macedonia's submission to the 79th Academy Awards. |
The Secret Book | Vlado Cvetanovski | 2006 | Conspiracy fiction | |
Shadows | Milčo Mančevski | 2007 | Fiction | Macedonia's submission to the 80th Academy Awards. |
I Am from Titov Veles | Teona Mitevska | 2007 | Fiction | |
Upside Down | Igor Ivanov Izi | 2007 | Fiction | |
Does It Hurt? | Aneta Lešnikovska | 2007 | Documentary | |
Wingless | Ivo Trajkov | 2009 | Fiction | |
East-West-East | Gerg Giovani | 2009 | Fiction | |
Normal | Julius Ševčík | 2009 | Fiction |
2010s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Mothers | Milčo Mančevski | 2010 | Fiction | Macedonia's submission to the 83rd Academy Awards. |
The War Is Over | Mitko Panov | 2010 | Drama | |
My Father | Shqipe N. Duka | 2010 | Drama | First film in Albanian in Macedonia |
The Land Between the Borders | Arben Kastrati | 2010 | Drama | |
This Is Not an American Film | Sašo Pavlovski | 2011 | Crime | |
Punk's Not Dead | Vladimir Blaževski | 2011 | Comedy | Macedonia's submission to the 84th Academy Awards. |
The Third Half | Darko Mitrevski | 2012 | Historical | Macedonia's submission to the 85th Academy Awards. |
The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears | Teona S. Mitevska | 2012 | Drama | |
Skopje Remix | omnibus | 2012 | omnibus | |
Balkan Is Not Dead | Aleksandar Popovski | 2013 | Drama | |
The Piano Room | Igor Ivanov Izi | 2013 | Fiction | Released at the 2013 Manaki Brothers Film Festival. |
Bale | Nikola Popovski | 2014 | Documentary | |
Children of the Sun | Antonio Mitrikeski | 2014 | Drama | Released at the 2014 Manaki Brothers Film Festival |
Inferno | Vinko Moderndorfer | 2014 | Drama | |
Mizar: The Star of Hope | Marko Dzambazoski | 2014 | Documentary | |
Sk | Guillermo Carreras-Candi | 2014 | Documentary | |
These Are the Rules | Ognjen Sviličić | 2014 | Drama | |
To the Hilt | Stole Popov | 2014 | Western | Released at the 2014 Manaki Brothers Film Festival,Macedonia's submission to the 87th Academy Awards |
The Weight of Chains 2 | Boris Malagurski | 2014 | Documentary | |
When Clouds Burst | Guillermo Carreras-Candi | 2014 | Documentary | |
My brother Lazar | Svetozar Ristovski | 2015 | Drama | Released at the 2015 Manaki Brothers Film Festival |
Honey Night | Ivo Trajkov | 2015 | Political thriller | Released at the 2015 Skopje Film Festival |
Three Days in September | Darijan Pejovski | 2015 | Thriller | Released at the 2015 Cinedays, Skopje |
Waiting for the money | Slobodan Despotovski | 2015 | Drama | Released on 30 October 2015 |
Zbor | Slobodan Despotovski | 2015 | Drama | |
Obozhenie | Kiril Karakaš | 2016 | Drama | |
Amok | Vardan Tozija | 2016 | Drama, Thriller | Released on 30 April 2016 |
Horse Riders | Marjan Gavrilovski | 2016 | Drama, Thriller | Released May 2017 |
The liberation of Skopje | Rade Šerbedžija | 2016 | Historical | Released at the 2016 Manaki Brothers Film Festival |
Golden Five | Goran Trenchovski | 2016 | Drama | Released at the 2016 Manaki Brothers Film Festival |
When the Day Had No Name | Teona Strugar Mitevska | 2017 | Drama | |
Oh my love | Kole Angelovski | 2017 | Comedy | Released at the 2017 Skopje Film Festival on 21 April 2017 [1] |
Secret Ingredient | Gjorče Stavreski | 2017 | Drama, Comedy | |
Witness | Mitko Panov | 2018 | Drama | expected premiere 2017 |
Year of the Monkey | Vladimir Blaževski | 2018 | Comedy, Fantasy | Released on 19 April 2018 [2] |
Mocking of Christ | Jani Bojadzi | 2018 | Drama | expected premiere 2018 |
Republic of North Macedonia
[edit]2010s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Happiness Effect | Borjan Zafirovski | 2019 | Drama | |
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya | Teona Strugar Mitevska | 2019 | Drama | |
Honeyland | Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov | 2019 | Documentary, Drama | Nominated for two Oscars |
2020s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ilija Dzadzev | Jordan Dukov | 2020 | Documentary, Biography | |
Sisterhood | Dina Duma | 2021 | Drama | Sestri |
Macedonian co-produced
[edit]1990s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Cabaret Balkan | Goran Paskaljević | 1998 | Drama | Serbian |
2000s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Odmazda | Jan Hintjens | 2001 | Drama, War | Macedonian, Dutch |
Podgryavane na vcherashniya obed | Kostadin Bonev | 2002 | Drama | Bulgarian, Serbian |
The Border Post | Rajko Grlić | 2006 | Comedy, Drama | Bosnian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovenian |
2010s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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Mission London | Dimitar Mitovski | 2010 | Comedy | Bulgarian, Russia, Serbian |
Some Other Stories | Marija Džidževa | 2010 | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Croatian, Bosnian, Macedonian, Serbian |
The Parade | Srđan Dragojević | 2011 | Comedy, Drama | Croatian, Bosnian, Albanian, Serbian |
Monument to Michael Jackson | Darko Lungulov | 2014 | Comedy, Drama | Serbian |
Šiška Deluxe | Jan Cvitkovič | 2015 | Comedy, Drama | Slovenian |
The Golden Five | Goran Trenchovski | 2016 | Drama | Macedonian |
Sieranevada | Cristi Puiu | 2016 | Comedy, Drama | Romanian |
Nightlife | Damjan Kozole | 2016 | Crime, Drama, Mystery | Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
The Frog | Elmir Jukić | 2017 | Drama | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
The Wild Pear Tree | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 2018 | Drama | Turkish |
Unforgettable Summer | Besnik Bisha | 2019 | Drama | Albanian |
The Voice | Ognjen Sviličić | 2019 | Drama | Croatian, also known as Glas |
Despite the Fog | Goran Paskaljević | 2019 | Drama | Italian, also known as Nonostante la nebbia |
2020s
[edit]Title | Director | Year | Genre | Notes |
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18% Grey | Viktor Chouchkov | 2020 | Drama | Bulgarian, German |
Nezo | Merita Cocoli | 2020 | Documentary | Albanian |