Sponsors:     6th Annual MACEDONIAN FILM FESTIVAL   The festival will be held on October 29 and 30, 2011, at: Innis Town Hall Theatre - 2 Sussex Avenue, Toronto and Carlton Cinema Theatre - 20 Carlton Street, Toronto ADIEUS (Разделби) Duration: 19 minutes Classification: Short | Fiction Director: Goran Trenchovski Screenplay: Vladimir Plavevski Leading Roles: Petar Temelkovski, Robert Veljanovski, Senko Velinov MORE INFO     BIT PLAYER (Епизодист) A story of double standards between the Communist regime and a bit player, hypocrisy and the cruelty of the past... Released: 2011 Duration: 22 minutes Classification: Short | Fiction Director: Igor Aleksov Screenplay: Aleksandar Rusjakov Leading Roles: Jana Stojanovska, Silvija Stojanovska, Predrag Pavlovski, Igor Angelov Parental advisory: Violent and sexual content. MORE INFO   GOD'S FOOLS (Божјите будали) The outcome makes fools of us all... Released: 2010 Duration: 15 minutes Classification: Short | Drama Director: Anton Blajer Screenplay: Anton Blajer Producer: Shaun McAlpine Leading Roles: Shane Luthor, Jeremy Kewley, Margaret Allen, Martin Quinn and Dylan Russell Awards: CineRail Grand Prix - Winner VCAM Film Awards 2010 - Best Director  Movie trailer MORE INFO   HANSEL & GRETEL - The True Story (Вистинската приказна за Хансел и Гретел) Wanna hear a bedtime story? Released: 2010 Duration: 13 minutes Classification: 2D Animation Director: Goce Cvetanovski Writer: Goce Cvetanovski Producer: Goce Cvetanovski Parental advisory: Frightening scenes. Official Film Website  Movie trailer MORE INFO   I'D LOVE TO FLY AWAY (Љубов за летање) The challenges of maturing and development of a child and his family... Released: 2008 Duration: 31 minutes Classification: Short Director: Dragi Savevski Writer: Vlado Dimovski Producer: Mirko Popovski Leading Role: Stefan Spasov MORE INFO   MACEDONIAN BLOODY WEDDING (Македонска крвава свадба) Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed... Released: 1967 Duration: 103 minutes Classification: Drama Director: Trajce Popov Writer: Slavko Janevski Producers: Branko Popcevski Leading Roles: Zafir Hadzimanov, Risto Siskov, Vera Cukic and Petar Prlicko Parental advisory: Violent content. Awards: FYFF, Pula, Golden Arena for art direction USSR, Golden Plaque for the film's success  Movie teaser MORE INFO   SECOND BODIES There is something stronger than sex or happiness: the passion for illusion... Released: 2009 Duration: 46 minutes Classification: Documentary Director: Sandra Danilovic Screenplay: Sandra Danilovic Producer: Sandra Danilovic Awards: Best Documentary, San Francisco New Media Film Festival Gordon F. Keeble Award, Ryerson University  Movie teaser MORE INFO   THE SEAMSTRESSES (Шивачките) A look behind the curtains of globalization through the seamstresses of Stip... Released: 2010 Duration: 30 minutes Classification: Documentary | Short Director: Biljana Garvanlieva Screenplay: Biljana Garvanlieva Producer: Christian Beetz, Ognen Antov Awards: Heart of Sarajevo - The best documentary film Asterfest Strumica - The best documentary film Grand Prix Bester Documentarfilm 2011  Movie teaser MORE INFO   SOME OTHER STORIES (Некои други приказни) Some stories we hold within... Released: 2010 Duration: 114 minutes Classification: Omnibus of short stories - Crime | Drama | Romance Directors: Marija Dzidzeva - Macedonia Ana Maria Rossi - Serbia Hanna Slak - Slovenia Ines Tanovic - Bosnia & Herzegovina Ivona Juka - Croatia Producer: Nenad Dukic Parental advisory: Sexual content. Official Film Website  Movie trailer MORE INFO   THE SPIRIT OF MY FATHER (Духот на татко ми) ...the mirror – that's you...than it drops in thousand pieces...but something stays from the clear matter...and a new mirror is renewed. Released: 2010 Duration: 39 minutes Classification: Documentary Director: Goran Trenchovski  Movie teaser MORE INFO   VEIL OF FORTUNE (За фереџето и за среќата) The incompatibility of Western philosophy and the mysticism of Eastern philosophy... Released: 2009 Duration: 12 minutes Classification: Short Director: Goce Cvetanovski Screenplay: Michael DiAntonio Leading Roles: Valdeta Ismaili, Robert Ristov and Michael DiAntonio MORE INFO   WITNESS (Сведок) Anyone can be a witness but how often does the witness become the accused... Released: 2011 Duration: 20 minutes Classification: Short | Fiction Director: Todor Petrov Screenplay: Todor Petrov Producers: Slave Petrov Kasha, Doncho Petrov - Lokum Leading Roles: Zdravko Stojmirov, Aleksandar Vidikov, Momir Kolev, Mario Manevski MORE INFO

SCHEDULE

Saturday - October 29, 2011 Innis Town Hall Theatre - 2 Sussex Avenue, at St. George 2:00 pm Hansel & Gretel – the True Story - animation 12" D: Goce Cvetanovski A dark fantasy tale, set in the universe of the classic fairytale by the Brothers Grimm, but with elements of witchcraft. Parental advisory: Frightening scenes. Veil of Fortune - 12" D: Goce Cvetanovski A "cowboy" goes to a foreign land to exploit its material wealth. Instead, he finds redemption. Witness - 20" D: Todor Petrov Narrated from a completely different perspective. The end says it all! God's Fools - 15" D: Anton Blajer A simple man lives his ordered life but events beyond his control force him to rethink his life and purpose. 3:30 pm Macedonian Bloody Wedding - Македонска крвава свадба (1967) - 102" D: Trajche Popov (starring Risto Shishkov) A classic film based on the first theatre piece in Macedonian. The time: latter part of the 19th C. Parental advisory: Violent content. 5:30 pm Adieus - 19" D: Goran Trenchovski Getting rid of evil and dark enslavement, once and for all. The Spirit of My Father - documentary 39" D: Goran Trenchovski Q and A with director Goran Trenchovski (via Skype) and with Tom Melissis, Canadian-Macedonian actor (at the theatre) 7:30 pm Some Other Stories - 114" In a country that used to be called Yugoslavia, men didn't ask women whether war was the right thing to do. Now those women are asking what kind of life can they be expected to bring into a post-war world. D: Marija Dzidzeva - Macedonia D: Ana Maria Rossi - Serbia D: Hanna Slak - Slovenia D: Ines Tanovic - Bosnia & Herzegovina D: Ivona Juka - Croatia Parental advisory: Sexual content. Q & A with Iva Zendelska Sunday - October 30, 2011 Carlton Cinema Theatre - 20 Carlton Street, at Yonge 2:00 pm The Seamstresses - documentary 30" D: Biljana Garvanlieva A look behind the curtains of globalization through the seamstresses of Stip. I'd Love to Fly Away - 31" D: Dragi Savevski The challenges of maturing and development of a child and his family in a country going through a transition period. 3:30 pm Bit Player - 22" D: Igor Aleksov The clash between an individual bit player and the regime. Double standards, hypocrisy and cruelty in a fight against the power of the state. Parental advisory: Violent and sexual content. Second Bodies - documentary 46" D: Sandra Danilovic If anything was possible and you could be anyone or do anything.... what would it be? As a Machinima film, it combines both real world and VR footage from Second Life, the 3D online virtual world. Q & A with Sandra Danilovic 7:00 pm Some Other Stories - 114" In a country that used to be called Yugoslavia, men didn't ask women whether war was the right thing to do. Now those women are asking what kind of life can they be expected to bring into a post-war world. D: Marija Dzidzeva - Macedonia D: Ana Maria Rossi - Serbia D: Hanna Slak - Slovenia D: Ines Tanovic - Bosnia & Herzegovina D: Ivona Juka - Croatia Parental advisory: Sexual content. Q & A with Iva Zendelska

Program is subject to change. All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles. All sales are final. No refunds. View this schedule in PDF format HERE!

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