Фестивал Asterfest 2007

[zstefanovic]

AsterFest, 3rd time!

May 26-31, 2007

International Film & Video Festival of Authors from Southeastern Europe

Strumica, Macedonia

Пријаве за 2007: http://asterfest.rastko.net/

2006 -- http://asterfest.rastko.net/2006/program.html

2005 -- http://asterfest.rastko.net/2005/index.html


Рок за пријаву филмова 31. јануар 2007.

Иначе, један сам од оснивача (али не и члан жирија, па немојте да ме цимате), а уређујем и посебан програм за фестивал и тамошње телевизије AsterClassics, где има и доста класичне фантастике.

http://asterfest.rastko.net/2006/clasic.html

[zstefanovic]

Ок, 31. маја почиње трећи Астерфест. Биће приказано 55 филмова у продукцији око 25 држава, плус класична селекција на телевизији.

Ону моју причу "јесам оснивач, али нисам члан жирија" је директор фестивала демантовао. Дакле, ипак сам члан жирија, па коме је филм примљен у главну селекцију нек се не нада ичему болећивом.

Видимо се у Македонији.


AsterFest 2007

International Film &Video Festival of Authors from Southeastern Europe, Strumica, Macedonia
May 31 - June 4, 2007


Меѓународен филмски и видео фестивал на Југоисточна Европа, Струмица, Македонија
31. мај - 4. јун 2007.


Organization   2

АСТЕРДОКС / ASTERDOCS I. Креативни документарци над 30 минути на автори од ЈИЕ  I. Creative documentaries longer than 30 mins by SEE authors   2

II. Креативни документарци до 20 мин на автори од ЈИЕ  II. Creative documentaries not longer than 20 mins by SEE authors   5

БАЛКАНСКА ФИКЦИЈА / BALKANS FICTION   7

ЕДНА ЖЕНА / ЕДЕН ФИЛМ   9

МУВИЛЕНД / MOVIELAND Фокус кон филмски дела и автори од Албанија од последните години.  Focus on Albanian filmworks and authors from the last years.   12

ДоМа / DoMa Дел од поновата независна филмска и видео продукција креирана од македонски автори. A part of the newest film8video indies created by Macedonian authors.   14

MERRY-DIONES   17

ПОСВЕТИ Meto Petrovski (1935), Petre M. Andreevski (1934-2006), Charlie Chaplin – 30 years after his death   20

Other Events   21

Summer Cine Revue   22

АСТЕР - МЕЃУНАРОДНА НАГРАДА ЗА ВИСОКИ ДОСТИГНУВАЊА ВО АВТОРСКИОТ ФИЛМ   22

ASTER – INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR HIGH ACHIEVEMENTS IN AUTEUR FILM   22







ORGANIZATION

Artistic Direction: Goran Trenchovski

Realisation manager: Riste Stevanov

Special thanks: Mayor Zoran Zaev, Minister of Culture Arifikmet Xhemaili, Pasko Kuzman, Slavica Taseva, Richard Klimesh, Vlatko Galevski, Marija Dzidzeva, Brodcasting Council, Qendra Kombёtare e Kinematografisё, Elenica Car Samoil, Grosist Mimoza, Zonik

Logo design developed by: Marjan Zahov-Pecev

Video&audio spot: Stefan Saskov

Subtitles: Aleksandar Zafirovski

Catalogue design & prepress & print: Arhikom +

Festival is executed with partnership between: AsterFest Ltd, NI Institute for Protection of Cultural Monuments and Museum - Strumica

asterfest@gmail.com



АСТЕРДОКС / ASTERDOCS

I. Креативни документарци над 30 минути на автори од ЈИЕ

I. Creative documentaries longer than 30 mins by SEE authors


БАБИЧКИ НА РЕВОЛУЦИЈАТА / THE GRANDMOTHERS OF REVOLUTION

D: Petra Seliskar

S: Brand Ferro & P. Seliskar

DoP: Brand Ferro

E: Filip Grcevski

Music: Nikola Kodabasija

P: Petra Pan Film Production

Slovenian director Petra Seliskar investigates the role of ideology in her personal family history by means of interviews with her paternal grandfather, her Macedonian boyfriend Brand's maternal grandmother and his Cuban grandmother on his father's side. Illustrated by archive footage and home movies, her voice-over describes her family's personal story, Yugoslavia under Tito, and the recent war, accompanied by some particularly shocking footage. The nature shots and the alternation of classical, popular and revolutionary music occasionally lend the stories a light-hearted tone. After WWII, her grandfather was imprisoned for 12 years in the Slovenian prison camp Kocevje for his nationalist fight against the partisans. In spite of it all, he is not resentful. Brand's mother Ilinka tells about his uncle, also called Brand, who was shot by the police during a demonstration against the regime. At his funeral, his mother (Brand's grandmother) held a nationalist speech; since then, the day of his death has been a national holiday in Macedonia...

(Doc, 96', BetaSP, 2006, SVN/CUB/MKD/NLD)

[ZabrebDox; Amsterdam]



ДЕВОЈЧЕТО И НЕЈЗИНАТА ХАРМОНИКА / A GIRL AND HER ACCORDION

D/S: Biljana Garvanlieva

DoP: Susanne Schuele

E: Andre Nier

P: Gebrueder Beetz Filmproduktion

At the age of seven Emilija gets an accordion, with 14 she wins the national accordion competition of Macedonia. In this documentary the author portrays the life of her 17 years old cousin, who comes from a poor but very musical and swinging family living in Strumica. Emilija is one of the only female accordion players in Macedonia and has to prove herself in the men's world. She fights for the right to participate in an international competition that is taking place in spring. Emilija plays good enough, but the condition is to have a professional and exorbitant expensive accordion.

(Doc, 30', BetaSP, 2006, DEU)

[ZagrebDox; Axel Springer]


КАРНЕВАЛ / CARNIVAL

D: Alen Drljevic

S: Seki Radoncic & A. Drljevic

DoP: Mustafa Mustafic

E: Almir Kenovic

P: Mediacentar Sarajevo

It was by coincidence that the Montenegrin journalist Seki Radoncic came across a black page in the history of his country. Bosnian refugees seeking safety in Montenegro during the Balkan War were mercilessly picked up and transported to Bosnia in May 1992, where they ended up in the notorious, Serb-run prison of Foca. Only one or two people lived to tell the tale. Most relatives have heard nothing from their loved ones since those fatal days. Radoncic decides to investigate the matter further and succeeds in tracking down witnesses to the events. Among them is a policeman who was ordered to arrest all Bosnian men between 18 and 70 years old. Images of the annual carnival in the sunny seaside town where it all took place form a wry contrast to the large-scale acts of betrayal that nobody in Montenegro wants to be reminded of.

(Doc, 72', BetaSP, 2006, BIH)

[Trieste]


КРАЈНА СУРОВОСТ / WITH EXTREME CRUELTY

D: Rosen Elezov

S: Vladimir Ganev

DoP: Plamen Gerasimov

E: Radosveta Petrova

P: B Plus

The film features the mental and intellectual catharsis of the eminent Bulgarian author and script-writer Svoboda Buchvarova living in Brazil. The way she turned from an ardent communist into a passionate Christian is a key to understanding the drama of the last 60 years of Bulgarian history. She is trying to make peace with herself in a constant imaginary dialogue with the spirit of her father Theodor Angeloff, shot during the Second World War by the Gestapo and later declared a national hero of Belgium. The film represents some of the moral problems of our time and an explanation of the present spiritual crisis of society. The authors chose it as an inspiring way to tell a story from the past.

(Doc, 58', BetaSP, 2006, BGR)

[Religion Today Trento; Bulgarian State Award]


ПАТУВАЊЕ ВО Г МАЈОР / VOYAGE IN G MAJOR

D/S/DoP: Georgi Lazarevski

E: Jean Coudsi, Catherine Gouze

M: Dvorak, Bach, Mendelssohn

P: Quark Productions

Aimé has been planning his trip to Morocco for forty years. He has read all the guides, marked all the maps and taken a host of notes. Yet his wife adamantly refuses to go with him. Aimé is finally 93 years old when his grandson, director and photographer, decides to take him to Morocco. Whilst his wife, back at home, talks frankly about her life, the camera watches Aimé rediscover life, the world and others. He talks about his regrets, the missed opportunities and the lessons he has learnt in life. A bittersweet journey full of fleeting happiness, regrets and hopes for the future.

Georgi Lazarevski is Macedonian born in Brussels.

(Doc, 54', BetaSP, 2006, FRA)

[Tel Aviv; Hamptons; Barcelona; Madrid; Lisboa; CineReel Paris]


ШЕЌЕРЕН ГРАД: МЛАДОЖЕНЦИ / SUGARTOWN: THE BRIDEGROOMS

D/S: Kimon Tsakiris

DoP: Argyris Tsepelikas

E: Tatiana Panigyuri

M: Sergios Voudris

In the Greek village of Sugar Town, men have a serious problem. Women are fleeing the area in search of work or marriage in the big cities, leaving them behind- and lonely.

Their cunning mayor promises the men to find them wives in order to get re-elected. He contacts the mayor of the Russian town of Klin, who gathers 100 young women looking for foreign husbands.

Against the odds and local traditions which frown upon mixed marriages, the men from Sugar Town set out on a great journey to find their future brides.

(Doc, 82', BetaSP, 2006, GRC/DEU)

[Thessaloniki; Cyprus; Greek State Award]


II. Креативни документарци до 20 мин на автори од ЈИЕ

II. Creative documentaries not longer than 20 mins by SEE authors


КАМЕНОБЕРАЧ / THE STONE PICKER

D: Branko Istvancic

S: Vido Bagur

DoP: Branko Cahun

E: Mladen Radakovic

M: Dalibor Grubacevic

he Stone Picker works and dances in old stone-pit, but without the use of machinery. No dialogue. Only foot-step dance in silent and stone sounds. How can such a hard way to earn a living produce such a unique and wonderful person.

(Doc, 20', BetaSP, 2005, HRV)

[Split Festival; Rochelle]

www.istvancic.tk


МОСТОТ / THE BRIDGE

D/S: Haris Bilajbegovic

DoP: Stefan Tauber

E: Ramon Rigoni

P: Illuminati film/Filmhaus films

Based on true events, in Bosnia, summer, 1992. This film tells the story of the disappearance of 13 young men.

(Doc, 12', digiBeta, 2006, AUT)

[WoodGreen London; CinePobre Mexico]

www.haris.at


ТЕШКА РАБОТА / A BURDENSOME JOB

D/S: Nedzad Begovic

DoP: Milenko Uherka

E: Ismet Nuno Arnautalic

P: SaGA

Film about two colleagues – Muhamed and Vlado, who work at the undertakers' firm ,,Burial" in Sarajevo. One is the gravedigger and the other works in the dissecting room. Although their everyday life is linked to the dead, or - as they use to say - ,,the two of us, we are mourning every day, day in - day out", they are both the persons whose spirit and whose (particular) optimism is preserved. Their perception of life is different from that of the rest of us. Their attitude and approach to everyday reality have different points of departure and destination. The only constant feature shared by Muhamed and Vlado, as well as by their colleagues, is their ,,empathy with those in mourning". This definitely leaves indelible scars on the psyche of both of them; that is why, according to statistics, their average life in retirement is about three years. Fortunately, or unfortunately, by the end of the day, the people dealing with this profession have never failed anyone.

(Doc, 20', BetaSP, 2006, BIH)


БАЛКАНСКА ФИКЦИЈА / BALKANS FICTION


AMOR FATI

D: Dennis Todorovic

S: Melanie Andernach & D. Todorovic

DoP: Andreas Kohler

E: Martina Pille

M: Schal Sick Brass Band / Ivanka Ivanova

After the tragic death of his bride, Nenad travels to Montenegro with his father-in-law to her funeral and faces a different approach to life. Amor Fati is a parable about a culture-clash, about the harsh contrast between "the Balkans" way of surrendering to fate and living in the moment and the western sense of personal responsibility and its tendency to assign guilt. Screened at aroud 30 festivals.

(Fict, 15'50'', 35mm, 2005, SRB/DEU)

[Dresden; Locarno]


НАДЕЖ / HOPE

D: Mehmet Bahadir Er

Mustafa is prisoner ;disapear is an ogre,which waylays people, the through of inability and helplessnes are diseases which kill soul, the people who progress in history, always did that with faith and hope.....

(Fict, 14', 35mm, 2006, TUR)

[Izmir; Ankara; Kisacekuzunolsun]


НА КАСАПСКАТА МАСА / ON THE BUTCHER'S BUNCH

D/S: Haris Raftogiannis

DoP: Chris Doulgeris

-Chop them!...and the goats and the lambs and all of them...One by one the lamb chops, smarten up...and the muscles, in small pieces! You got a boyfriend?

-Yes!

-And the shoulder blades and the legs...and the how it is called...the rump, the shoulder bones...

(Fict, 21', miniDV, 2006, GRC)

[Warsaw]


ПРОБА НА КАПУТОТ / COAT FITTING

D/S: Elias Demetriou

DoP: Simos Sarketzis

M: Nikos Papadogoulas

P: ERT S.A./Portolanos Films

The dull life of a retired tailor completely changes when a filmmaker comes to make a documentary about him. Without intention the old tailor falls in an unspoken love with the beautiful filmmaker until the time he decides to give an end to his feelings...

(Fict, 22', 35mm, 2006, GRC)

[Clermont-Ferrand; Bucharest; Drama]


СТАПИЦА / THE TRAP

D/S: Aljosha Simjanovski

DoP: Dime Pejovski

Sound: Victor Ivanov

E/P: Mile Petkovski/MRTV/SRD

The movie with its topic – family revenge, is situated in the actual transitional and social context. - One can feel in the movie the burden of our transitional reality. It corresponds in content, time and in space with this part of the world, but on the aesthetic plan it promotes original dramaturgy and cine-aesthetic values in order to fit into universal film courses – says Simjanovski. The main roles in the movie will be played by Petar Arsovski, Salaetin Bilal, Mimi Tanevska, and some younger actors, Slavisa Kaevski, Natasa Naumovska and actor from Serbia Bojan Serafimovic. The basic drama theme of the movie is the scene with hunting where main actors – the murderer and the victim, as members of the same status milieu, step together. One is the journalist, son of ex prominent and respected politician, killed in an accident during hunting according to the official police version!!! The Trap opens the police files.

(Fict, 85', BetaSP, 2007, MKD)


ЕДНА ЖЕНА / ЕДЕН ФИЛМ


37˚

D/S: Tamara Sulamanidze

S: Giorgi Tskhvediani

DoP: Tamaz Goginashvili      

E: T. Sulamanidze & Gela Kinsturashvili

P: George Sulamanidze and T. Sulamanidze

C: David Roinishvili

The film characters - the looser, the gang, the police, and the teenagers come across a strange situation with money, each one of them acts the way each can, thus each revealing his/her personality. Nevertheless, it is though the lead character of the film that the concept of the story unfolds – "the one who's born to crawl can never fly". Screened at around 50 festivals.

(Fict, 30', DV , 2005, GEO)

[Tbilisi; Azerbaijan; Portugal; Armenia; Japan; Austria]


АДАМ И ЕВА / ADAM & EVE

D: Klara Hajkova

DoP: Lco Kolar & Lucie Tydlackova

E: Jiri Krska

M: Ondrej Gasek

P: Film School Zlin

Gentle erotic film about love brought into being entire people.

(Ani, 4'15'', 35mm, 2006, CZ)

[Annecy]


ГЕНЕРАЛОТ / THE GENERAL

D: Maja Mladenovska

S: Blaze Minevski

DoP: Dejan Dimeski

E: Blaze Dulev

P: Mile Arsovski

(Doc, 27', 35mm, 2002, MKD)


ДЕЦАТА НА 1948 / CHILDREN OF 1948

D: Suzana Dinevski

Set in the southern part of the Balkans, this film portrays testimonials from some of the 28,000 Macedonian child refugees who were evacuated from their homes in northern Greece during the Greek Civil War (1948-49).

(Doc, 30', miniDV, 2004, CAN/MKD)

[Montreal; BBB]


КАКО ШТО Е / THE WAY IT IS

D: Elisabeth Salgado

DoP: Coen Stroeve

E: Faye de Wilde

M: Anne la Berge

P: Marion Slewe & Frieder Wallis

About a year in the life of 73 old farmer Jan. Throught the 4 seasons the film gives an impression of life as it used to be.

(Doc, 31', 35mm, 2006, NLD)

[Tuschinski Award]


КОПНЕЖ / WISHFUL THINKING...

D/S: Sandra Peuthert

DoP: Gunter Uttendorfer

E: Rainer Speidel

Peuthert puts a young woman on set in morbid atmosphere of industrial charm, where she leaves her with her hopes. She does this in a surreal very imaginative way.

(Dance fict, 18'14'', digiBeta, 2007, DEU)

www.wuensch-dir-was.net


КУЌА НА МАСЛИНОВИ ДРВЈА / HOUSE OF THE OLIVE TREES

D/E: Thouly Dosios

S: Maeve McQuillan & T. Dosios

DoP: John Solomon

P: GFC/Ekso Productions

Anna's manifesto is crystal clear: complete and utter independence from humans. While floating on a yellow rubber duck in the middle of the sea, safe and content in her unbearable loneliness, she meets Markos. Soon she finds herself searching for a place in a world where intimacy and pain are inseparable

(Fict, 29'30'', 35mm, 2006, GRC)

[Tribeca; Rochester; Student Oscar Nomination; Bruxelles]


ЛИСТАЈЌИ ГО Д-Р ФРОЈД / PAGING DR. FREUD

D: Erika Yeomans

E: Christine Giorgio

(Multi frame video, 17', miniDV, 2007, USA)

Comprised of archival materials from Yeomans' tenure as Artistic Director of the experimental theatre group Doorika, Paging Dr. Freud is a multi-frame montage based on image, music and sound bites pulled from various media elements from Doorika performances.

www.fortherestofyournaturallifeproductions.com


MAROX

D: Julia Naskova

C: Carin Avila

(Kaiga music video, 4', S8mm, 2006, USA)

Near spring ocean the woman's shadow dances a whispering wind. Homage to surrealism, Marox is a collage of fetishlike images whose simplicity reinforces the female mystery. Ms. Naskova was born and lived through her teen years in Macedonia. She resides in Los Angeles where she works as an editor.

[Aarhus; Los Angeles]


СУЏУК МАРАТОН / SUXHUK OPEN

D: Burbuqe Berisha

(Fict, 20', digiBeta, 2006, UNMI Kosovo)

[Tirana Film Fest]


*

For me photography, film and dance are all just different aspects of the same need for dramatic and visual expression. Whether I observe an unusual shape, or an intriguing shadow, or I connect with a fellow human being and I try to capture that moment in a frame (as a moving image or still), it is all part of a story we are telling - the subject and I - together. Thus, telling a story is the essence of my work. My goal is to entice the observer to connect with this story, to inspire them to create an experience of their own.

Sasha C. Damjanovski

www.sashacd.co.uk

*


МУВИЛЕНД / MOVIELAND

Фокус кон филмски дела и автори од Албанија од последните години.

Focus on Albanian filmworks and authors from the last years.

24 ЧАСА НА 10.000 ЛЕКА  / 24 HOURS OF 10 THOUSAND LEK

D: Redi Treni

(Doc, 20', BetaSP, 2005, ALB)


ГАС  / GAZ

D: Bujar Alimani

DoP: Christos Karamanis

E:: N. Stratogiannakis

M: Th. Papacostantinou

C: Iertonimos Kaletsanos, Marios Alimani

P: ERT S.A./Oxymoron Films

"The father is unemployed. His son is sick. Outside it is cold". The sum of one life is also a statement about the state of mind which is not only unique to individuals and families in South East Europe...

(Fict, 20', 35mm, 2006, GRC)

[Tirana; Thessaloniki; Los Angeles]


ЕДЕН ВИКЕНД ВОН СЕЗОНА / ONE WEEKEND OUT OF THE SEASON

D: Ilir Harxhi

(Fict, 13', BetaSP, 2005, ALB)

LIRA

D: Saimir Kumbaro

(Doc, 52', BeatSP, 2005, ALB)


НАПУШТЕН РАЈ / ABANDONED EDEN

D/E: Eno Milkani

S: Roland Gjoza

DoP: Michal Vojkůvka

M: Spiro Konduri

P: B&G FilmPro

This non-narrative documentary, wonderfully shot, poetically depicts the despair and loneliness of older Albanians who are left alone after their children have emigrated in search of a better future. Without words, using the sound of echoing steps across the desolate landscape of southern Albania, the film creates an atmosphere of melancholia. Suddenly, we hear a newborn cry and experience the ritual of its baptizing, done in a traditional way. All of the inhabitants of the small village are immediately busy, dedicating their full attention to the baby. They dance and sing in the way they have done for centuries on other festive occasions. But this happiness and fulfillment will not last, since it is the destiny of this baby, and all other youngsters, to leave the village to look for a better life elsewhere. As long as the old people survive, customs will be preserved. But what will happen after they pass away from this world? With superb cinematic language and sophisticated rhythm, the filmmaker creates the suspense of a vanishing, untouched landscape and the peacefulness of collective spirit.

(Doc, 20', 35 mm, 2002, ALB)

[Karlovy Vary; Tirana; Kiev; Prizren]


OMER KALESHI

D: Esat Musliu & Esat Ibro

(Doc, 45', BetaSP, 2005, ALB)


ПРИКАЗНА ЗА ДЕВОЈКАТА / STORY OF A GIRL

D: Namik Ajazi

(Doc fict, 30', miniDV, 2005, ALB)

ДоМа / DoMa

Дел од поновата независна филмска и видео продукција креирана од македонски автори. A part of the newest film8video indies created by Macedonian authors.


ВАЗНА ОД ПОРЦЕЛАН / THE PORCELAIN VASE

D: Stojan Stojanoski

S: Jugoslav Petrovski

DoP: Dragi Tanevski

C: Vasil Mihail, Todor Kuzmanov

P: Maska/SRD

"Porcelan vase" in it's original version as theatre play text honored Jugoslav Petrovski, the author, with the Shakespeare Award and was for the first time staged at "Platform 4" festival in Exiter, England. The film is produced by specially adapted scenario, with the two main characters lost in the warfare chaos. The crucial question is whether they are in or out of the front line. Are they living creatures or ghosts? Are they brothers or not? Indeed, they are somewhere - in between - in the train full of as metaphor of the universal horror of the war. In Beckett manner the action stresses the borderline between the reality and fiction. War - it is absurd and no way out. And plus desperation!

(Fict, 52', BetaSP, 2007, MKD)


ГОДИНИ НА САМОТИЈА / YEARS OF SOLITUDE

D: Filip Kondovski

DoP: Aleksandar Krstevski

E: Filip Grcevski

M: Aleksandar Pejovski

P: Ognen Antov

In the mountains of Macedonia, a couple live peacefully together. He ploughs the fields; she takes care of the household. They are truly happy and in love, expecting their first child. The beauty, tranquillity, and happiness of this family is shattered one day when a jeep comes over the hill and tears away the expectant father to go fight for his country. As years go by the son, now a grown man with his own family and his own child, is also visited by a jeep and taken to fight.

(Fict, 11', HD, 2006, MKD)

[Monte Carlo; Clermont-Feerand]


ДЕВЕТ СТЕПЕНИ / NINE DEGREES

D: Tomislav Aleksov

DoP: Dime & Risto Pejovski

E: M. Petkovski

M: Kismet

C: Zoran Ljutkov

P: Zlate Todorovski/SRD

On 26 July 1963 at 05:17 hours Skopje,the capital of Macedonia was rocked by disastrous earthquake. Two people...under the ruins...

(Fict, 57', BetaSP, 2006, MKD)


ЗЕЛЕНИ СТРАНИЦИ / GREEN PAGES

D/S/P: Sasha C. Damjanovski

DoP: Phil Mash

M: Nikola Kodjabashia

C: Johanne Murdock and Jason Courtis

A man, a woman and a company that forbids any personal interaction between employees. Not even talk. But a relationship is inevitable, under the very eye of the security camera. Executed in a single continuous take, this futuristic comedy is also the first ever adaptation of the phone book. The director is Macedonian living in London.

(Fict, 17', HDcam, 2006, GBR)

[Chikago]

www.orev.co.uk


НИЕ СМЕ ЕДНО / WE ARE THE ONE

D: Stefan Saskov

(Doc, 15', miniDV, 2006, MKD)


НИЛ / NEIL

D: Boris Mojsovski

S: Ognen Georgievski / B. Mojsovski

DoP: Levko Mojsovski

E: Tom Strnad

M: Aleksander Pejovski

C: Greg Bryk, Mary Krohnert, Ingrid Veninger

P: A Thousand Lights Dark Inc.

Unable to cope with his aging problem, Neil (Grey Bryk - A History of Violence) develops severe agoraphobia. Dependant on a litany of pills, Neil has spent his entire adult life inside an inherited building. Over time, his separation from the outside world translates into an oppressive solitude; Neil is unable to even look out a window. At the age of twenty-two, Neil looks like a thirty-seven year old. His contact with the outside world is limited to the worried monitoring of his scientist mother Kate (Barbara Gordon - Half/Life), an awkward fledgling friendship with a delivery man named Davor (Jasmin Geljo) and a relationship with his behavioral psychologist Donna (Ingrid Veninger - The Limb Salesman) that blurs the lines between the personal and therapeutic. Neil's spiral into self-destruction is only broken by the emergence of a mysterious woman, Anna. Her appearance offers healing, but also unsettling echoes of a past he does not understand. Anna (Mary Krohnert - Saved), insists that Neil is her husband. However, he does not recognize, nor know anything about her. Reduced to its essence, "Neil" is a film about love and one man's quest to regain life. Beautifully shot by Levko Mojsovski, with dreamlikelogic the film explodes with questions of science, love, trust and the unlikely harmony of the unexplainable.

(Fict, 90', 35mm, 2005, CAN)

www.neilthemovie.com


САМИТ НА ШАМАНИТЕ / SUMMIT OF SHAMANS

D/S: Aco Stankovski

DoP: Brand Ferro

E: Biljana Brezovska-Grafvalner

M/P: Fidan Jakovski

C: Mirche Donevski, Kiril Pop Hristov, Vlatko Galevski

A film about short psychedelic dream in front of TV in the evening after the tiring working day of one theatre actor who works hard on his role in a new theatre play. He watches his favourite TV show ,,Psychedelic Show of Mr. Holmes and Mr. Dr. Watson" and falls into a whirl that brings him to the unknown, past time dimensions. The events are inseparable from his existence. He is the participant of affairs of those times and everything happens around him and his spiritual leader that appears from one secret imaginary book.

(Fict, 74', DV, 2006, MKD)



MERRY-DIONES


AMOK

D/S/E: The Stifani Brothers (Luca and Gabriele)

DoP: Cliff Sainsbury

M: Jack Burness and Gianmarco Stamerra

In this visually arresting, beautiful film, we meet Joe, a middle aged man having an identity crisis. He pursues an elusive woman through an increasingly strange landscape. The dream-like, surreal imagery is all taking place in Joe's mind as he undergoes a sex change operation.

(Fict, 12', miniDV, 2006, GBR/ITA)

[Newcastle; New Zealand]


ДВАЈЦА / BOTH

D/S: Bass Breche

DoP: Eric Trometer

E: Dana Trometer

M: Sopkills-Akesser

C: Ian Hart, Andrea Estrella

Both takes place in two cities London and Beirut. Both are places that people makes associations with: London is associated with democracy cosmopolitan diversity, Beirut is associated with occupation,conquest and stories of endless war. But London is also remembered for the Blitz while Beirut is the people,the diversity, and the heritage. Even if war is meant to be continuous, as George Orwell said, Both is a message of hope, love and truth from the city of the endless wars, Beirut.

(Fict, 11'30'', S16mm, 2007, GBR/LBN]

[Cannes]


ЃОРГИ РАСТЕ / GEORGE GROWS

D: Martin Schmidt

Little George is just about one year old, when he experiences the shock of his life.

(Ani, 2'24'', DV, 2007, DEU)

www.herrschmid.tv


ЖИВОТИТЕ СЕ ЧУДНИ / LIVES ARE QUEER

D/S/E: Seung Hyun, Hoon

This movie would show the real meanings of photography about human lives. To do so, Video camera would go into the each of photo images in the gallery, and show the outside of photo image frame.

(Doc, 11'30'', miniDV, 2006, AUS/KOR)

ЗАБАВА ПРИ УЧЕЊЕТО ГЕРМАНСКИ

D: Armin Meinel

(Doc, 15', digiBeta, 2007, MKD/DEU)


ОТВОРАЊЕ / THE OPENING

D/DoP/E: Owen Tooth

M: David Beard

Clinic is lost in dark folklore. To find his freedom he may to sabotage the thing he's traying to save: Himself.

(Fict, 12'53'', digiBeta, 2007, GBR)

[Bang – Nottingham]

www.tootpix.co.uk


ПАРЧЕ РАЈ / PIECE OF HEAVEN

D/S: Kuba Czekaj

DoP: Adam Palenta

E/M: Daniel Gasiorowski

P: Krzyztof Kieslowski RTV University

The hospitum's patients are eager to find safety and love. Small local problems are more important to them than the inevitable...

(Fict, 18'30'', 35mm, 2006, POL)

[Pitsburg; Lodz; Poznan]


-P

D/S: Henri Turunen

DoP: Okko Meinila

M: Underwater Sleeping Society

P: OAMK

(Exp, 5'50'', miniDV, 2007, FIN)


ПИСМО / LETTER

D/S/E: Martin Doepner

DoP: Michel St-Martin

M: Oleksa Lozowchuk

P: Joseph Antaki

A Canadian nurse devotes herself to the care of the wounded during the First World War. In the confusion of battle, a German soldier (the enemy) is left in her care. She takes pity on him and decides to save the youth. But when she learns of her own son's death, the desire for revenge is too great... and so she writes a letter of confession to the youth's mother.

(Fict, 7'31'', digiBeta, 2006, CAN)

[Canada Drama Prize]


ПУРА НА ПЛАЖАТА / A CIGAR AT THE BEACH

D/S: Stephen Keep Mills

DoP: Michael Alba

E: Tamera Martin

M: Milen Kirov

A modern tale of the Mid-Life Male

(Fict, 15'33'', 35mm, 2006, USA)

[25 countries, 138 festivals, 39 awards]

www.triskelionent.com


СИНИОТ ХОТЕЛ / BLUE HOTEL

D: Csaba Toth

(Doc, 9', miniDV, 2005, FRA)

[Clermont-Ferrand]


СПЕКТАР / SPECTRE

(Fict fant, 12', miniDV, 2006, FRA)

D: Lionel Rigal

S: Olivier Grimberg

C: Christophe Zakardjian

[Viena; Munich; Rochelle]

www.nocturnalpictures.fr


ШАРЕНА ЕУ / COLORFUL EU

D: Peter Vadocz

As you walk along the streets, the flags of EU-countries come into sight everywhere. The colourful EU is around us. An experimental spot in 50 seconds with the 50 colours of the EU-flags to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the European Union.

(Exp, 2', 2D, 2006, HU)

[Prix Europa Spot Trophy - Berlin)


ПОСВЕТИ

Meto Petrovski (1935), Petre M. Andreevski (1934-2006), Charlie Chaplin – 30 years after his death


ГОЛГОТА / GOLGOTHA

D: Meto Petrovski

P: Vardar film

Millstones have always been produced in Lesnovo, placed in the Zletovo area, by cutting the rocks at the surrounding mountains. The production of these millstones, especially their transport along the steep slopes, is a real Sisyphus labour. Directed by famous Macedonian docu-maker Meto Petrovski. As a director he debued with the documentary film "Migrations" in 1965. He made over 60 documentary and short films presented at many domestic and world festivals. Participated at the Film Festival in Cannes with his documentary film "Virovo". He is a winner of many awards: "Golden Medal Belgrade" for direction, Medal "Belgrade" for sound, "Bronze Dragon" for camera in Krakow.

(Doc, 16', 35mm,1979, MKD)


ЈАВНА КОЊА ПАУНА / PEACOCK RODE A HORSE

D: Boris Damovski

S: Petre M. Andreevski

P: Artis3/SRD

(Fict, 21', BetaSP, 2001, MKD)


GAROTA (The Kid)

D/S/P: Fernando Pinheiro

DoP: Guilherme Cunha

A Garota is a four-minute walk through a gorgeous digital masterpiece. Brazilian Fernando Pinheiro pays tribute to The Kid, the classic 1921 Charlie Chaplin film about a homeless clown who finds an abandoned child. Using the juxtaposition of black-and-white characters against a coloured background and a slow, dreamy Schubert sonata, Pinheiro gets his message through—childhood poverty isn't pretty.

(Ani, 4'3'', 35mm, 2005, BRA)

www.agarota.com

[San Diego; Ceara; Guaiba]


Other Events

Portrait of Karoly Vicsek

SEE Documentary Conference

Excursion at the cultural heritage monuments

*


Summer Cine Revue

АСТЕР - МЕЃУНАРОДНА НАГРАДА ЗА ВИСОКИ ДОСТИГНУВАЊА ВО АВТОРСКИОТ ФИЛМ

ASTER – INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR HIGH ACHIEVEMENTS IN AUTEUR FILM

VICSEK, Károly (Karolj Viček) Hungarian film and TV director and screenwriter (Born in Novi Sad, in 21 st August, 1941) director from Autonomous Province of Vojvodina in Serbia. At first, he worked as an associate in Informative Program (in Hungarian language) of Belgrade Television. For the «Neoplanta film Company» he realized about 15 documentary and three feature films in which he was also (in most of the cases), the screenplay co-writer. Thematically he is occupied by contemporary, actual problems of the Vojvodina midst, most notably elaborating on simple, «ordinary» people's destiny, especially those living in the villages that do not find their own way in social and economic environment quickly made changes. His outstanding documentary films are: THE TEST (1976), IDVOR PUPIN (1976) and WE SHALL OVERCOME (1979), which were all prize winning at the Belgrade Festival, as well as PINKIE (1978), BALLADE OF THE HANGED ONES (1981) and THE RETURNEE (1984). He has received over fifty awards and prizes in Hungaria, YU and other states. In his first feature film FORLORN LAND (1974, he received the Bronze Arena Award in Pula for directing) produced in Hungarian language. He elaborated on problems of a village that is deserted by the youth. In THE TROPHY (1979, the Great Golden Arena in Pula) for the screenplay of which he was also a co-writer with F. Deak, he dealt with questions of political moral telling the story of a veteran appointed the chairman of the commission for investigation on origin of possessions, while in THE SUNSET (1982), in which he was the scenario co-writer) he deals with the relation of a wealthy gist-arbiter – returnee and the provincial community where he returns. For TV Novi Sad he directed numerous shows and programs in culture and education, as well as a many TV dramas (he won an award for The Black Globe). In 1996 he received the Golden Butterfly Prize from the Hungarian Republic ,,for his successful work in the Hungarian and world cinema".

1974   FORLORN LAND feature film, the Bronze Arena Award in Pula

1977   THE BLACK GLOBE TV film, winner of Portoroz TV Festival

1979 THE TROPHY, feature film, the Great Golden Arena in Pula

1982   THE SUNSET, feature film

1982   THE GREEN-HAIRED GIRL, a theatrical play adapted for TV, participated at the MES Festival in Sarajevo

1983   HOLLYWOOD ON THE DANUBE TV film

1984   THE HIGH BREED DOGS, TV film

1985   THE KNIFE THROWER, TV film

1986   FATHER OR LONELINESS, TV film

1987   ON THE DRY LAND, TV film represented Yugoslavia at the Dramas Festival in Prague

1988   THE APARTMENT, TV film, represented YU at the Dramas Festival in Siena (Italy)

1989   WE ARE LOOKING FOR A BETTER BOAT, TV film, awarded at the TV Festival in Keseg (Hungary); production: TV Hungary – TV Novi Sad

1990   A CAT AT THE HEAD, TV film; production: TV Hungary – TV Novi Sad

1993   THE MOST IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD, TV serial, Silver Arena for the serial, Novi Sad

2002   CHOCKING, feature film, production: Budapest, Film Studio – Subotica film

2003   GRATEFUL VICTIMS, feature film and TV serial, production Digitel – NOVI SAD


The organizers withhold the right to change the programme

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Evening SCREENINGS:
TERMA BANSKO
20,15

Автобусот за Терма Банско поаѓа секоја вечер во 19,45 часот од Плоштадот
Гоце Делчев - Струмица, а се враќа по завршувањето на проекциите


Програмска шема:

31 мај (четврток) 20,00
Отворање+ПРОЕКЦИИ (Терма)

1 јуни (петок)
10,30 Портрет на Карољ Вичек (Хотел Илинден)
Потоа Проекции (Х. Илинден)
20,15 ПРОЕКЦИИ (Терма)

2 јуни (сабота)
10,30 Средба на документаристите од ЈИЕ (ХотелИлинден)
Потоа Проекции (Х. Илинден)
20,15 ПРОЕКЦИИ (Терма)

3 јуни (недела)
10,00 Посета на културно-историски локалитети
20,15 ПРОЕКЦИИ (Терма)

4 јуни (понеделник)
20,15 Доделување на наградите+ПРОЕКЦИИ (Терма)



Prizes for AsterDocs:

GOLDEN HORSESHOE
SILVER HORSESHOE
BRONZE HORSESHOE
Special Prize - gOLDen Projector

[zstefanovic]

Било је врло угодно, са много лепих филмова и буљуком гостију из иностранства.

Ево резултата:

AsterFest 2007 Laureates

   * GOLDEN HORSESHOE: Бабички на Револуцијата / Babice revolucije / The Grandmothers of Revolution (by Petra Seliškar, Slovenia, Cuba, Macedonia, The Netherlands)

   * SILVER HORSESHOE: Шеќерен град: Младоженци / Sugartown: The bridegrooms (by Kimon Tsakiris, Greece)

   * BRONZE HORSESHOE: Крајна суровост / По особено жесток начин / In Very Cruel Method (by Rossen Elezov, Bulgaria)

   * GOLDEN PROJECTOR: Девојчето и нејзината хармоника / A girl and her accordion (by Biljana Garvanlieva, Germany)

   * MOVIELAND ALBANIA JOURNALIST AWARD: Напуштен рај / Abandoned Eden (by Eno Milkani, Albania)

   * ASTERAWARD 2007: Карољ Вичек / Karolj Viček / Karoly Vicsek