Known as the alleged world capital of the gypsy or Romany peoples, Shutka, Macedonia thrives on one goal: to be the champion of everything known to humankind. This "anthropological documentary comedy" looks at how people crave to be the best at what they do: no matter if that is hunting down vampires, collecting obsolete Turkish music on audio tapes, training geese to fight, or...
Cairo International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1997 Nominated Golden Pyramid
Antonio Mitriceski
Molodist International Film Festival
Year Result Award Category/Recipient(s)
1998 Nominated Best Film Award Best Full-Length Fiction Film
Antonio Mitriceski
The fact that this film is based on a true story [in fact based on a documentary shot by the sa...
Forty-year old Janko is released from prison into the care of his half-brother Novak, owner of the Hotel "Titanic" in Skopje. The same day Novak picks up his wife's sister, Zana, from the psychiatric hospital. Since the mental home has begun to serve as a hide-out for war criminals, there is no longer any room for the real patients.
"KONTAKT" is a laconical comedy from Macedoni...
