Manaki_Brothers_Film_Festival

Manaki Brothers Film Festival

Manaki Brothers Film Festival

Annual international film festival in North Macedonia


The International Cinematographers Film Festival "Manaki Brothers" (known short as Manaki Film Festival) is an annual international film festival organized by the Macedonian Film Professionals Association (MFPA). The festival is held in Bitola, the town where most of the activities of the Aromanian brothers Yanaki and Milton Manaki were organized. They were the filmmakers, who in 1905 filmed in Avdela the first motion pictures in the Ottoman Balkans.[1] Each year the festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia and the President of North Macedonia. The award of the festival is Camera 300 that given to the year's best motion pictures chosen by the festival's film committee. The Manaki Film Festival has been hosted at the Center of culture, with screenings at the Big Hall, located in the center of Bitola and has been attended by celebrities such as Michael York, Charles Dance, Victoria Abril, Daryl Hannah, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Julliette Binoche, Aleksei Serebryakov, Bruno Ganz, Claudia Cardinale, Fatih Akin.[2]

Quick Facts Location, Founded ...

Golden Camera 300 for life achievement

Special Golden Camera 300

Golden Camera 300

Silver Camera 300

List of festival directors

US ambassador in Macedonia, Reeker and Labina Mitevska, director of the festival, Vilmos Zsigmond and Kirstin Wilder at the Manaki Film festival 2010

Before 1993 the festival did not have a director, the function was introduced in 1993.

  • Boris Nonevski 1993–1995
  • Gorjan Tozija 1995–1995
  • Delcho Mihajlov 1996–1998
  • Vladimir Atanasov 1998–2001
  • Tomi Salkovski 2001–2009
  • Labina Mitevska 2009–2014[30]
  • Dimitar Nikolov 2015–2015[31]
  • Blagoja Kunovski 2016–2018 [32]
  • Evgenija Teodosievska 2018–2020 [33]
  • Simeon Damevski 2021–? [34]

Main competition jury

World, regional and national film premiers

  • 2004: "The Great Water" (Големата вода) – National Premiere
  • 2005: "Contact" (Контакт) – World Premiere
  • 2006: "The Secret Book" (Тајната книга) – World Premiere
  • 2010: "Mothers" (Мајки) – National premiere
  • 2012: "The Third Half" (Трето полувреме) – World Premiere
  • 2012: "Balkan Is Not Dead" (Балканот не е мртов) – World Premiere
  • 2013: "The Piano Room" (Соба со пијано) – World Premiere
  • 2014: "To the Hilt" (До балчак) – World Premiere
  • 2014: "Children of the Sun" (Деца на сонцето) – World Premiere
  • 2015: "Lazar" (Лазар) – World Premiere
  • 2016: "The Liberation of Skopje" (Ослободувањето на Скопје) – National Premiere [17]
  • 2016: "Golden five" (Златна Петорка) – World Premiere [17]
  • 2021: "Sisterhood" (Сестри) – National Premiere [40]
  • 2022: "Snow White Dies at the End (Снежана на крајот умира) – National Premiere
  • 2023: "Housekeeping for beginners" (Домаќинство за почетници) – National Premiere
  • 2023: "Lena and Vladimir" (Лена и Владимир) – World Premiere
Daryl Hannah, exclusive guest of Manaki in 2010

References

  1. Balkan border crossings: First annual of the Konitsa Summer School, Vasilēs G. Nitsiakos, LIT Verlag Münster, 2008, ISBN 3825809188, pp. 41-42.
  2. "Manaki Brothers - International Cinematographers' Film Festival -". Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
  3. "5222". Archived from the original on 2 November 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  4. Film, Manaki (2 October 2023). "2023 AWARDS". Manaki Brothers - International Cinematographers’ Film Festival. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  5. "5023". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
  6. "5240". Archived from the original on 23 November 2016. Retrieved 11 May 2016.
  7. "Juries". Manaki Brothers - International Cinematographers’ Film Festival. Retrieved 3 October 2023.

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