My Summer Holiday
Documentary: 52m
Director: Petra Seliškar
Writers: Petra Seliškar, Tancrède Rivière
Cinematographer: Brand Ferro
Editor: Sashko Potter Micevski
Additional editor: Laureline Delom
Music: Iztok Koren
Sound designer: Vladimir Rakić
Foley artist & sound fx editor: Vera Galešev
Voice over: Nil Ferro Seliškar
Producers: Petra Seliškar, Victor Ede, Sara Ferro
Executive producers: Brand Ferro, Ivana Naceva
While the children are enjoying their summer holidays, Basri, 8, heads off to the Macedonian mountains to join his brothers. They are the shepherds of hundreds of sheep, helped by huge dogs that protect them from wolves. For Basri, it's freedom, while his teenage brothers dream of elsewhere.
Director Information:
Petra Seliškar
Petra Seliškar was born in 1978 in Ljubljana, Her first childhood passion was the theater which brought her to join the puppet theater and school GILS KODUM. After finishing high school, she went to the Netherlands to study directing at the Academy of film and television (BA Hons. Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academie). She later pursued undergraduate studies in directing and postgraduate studies of production at the the Northern media school in Sheffield in England. In 2003 she founded the Petra Pan Film Production, which primarily produces and distributes documentary films. She now lives and works in Ljubljana, Skopje and elsewhere around Europe. She is the proud mother of Terra and Nil.
Filming location: North Macedonia
Languages: Macedonian, Albanian
Countries: Slovenia, France, North Macedonia
Produced by: Petra Pan Film, Cinéphage
Productions, PPFP
in coproduction with Al Jazeera Balkans