MakeDox: Main Program
It is a very competent and exciting selection the North (!) Macedonian festival in Skopje, edition number 14, offers its audience in 3 outdoor screening venues. Screenings start after the 9.15 calls from the minarets in the city. And the audience is big. The weather is of course a dangerous player under these circumstances but this year it treats the festival well. Last year I remember that the masterpiece “Nelly and Nadine” by Swedish Magnus Gertten, edited by Danish Jesper Osmund – who performs here at an editing workshop with me on the sideline – was screened long after midnight because of heavy rain…
Back to the main program that includes the emotionally beautiful “Eternal Memory” by Chilean Maite Alberdi (photo of her on top of this page), the two films by Serbian Mila Turajlic with and about the late cinematographer Labutovic, who was the cameraman of Tito, followed him around and was sent by him to Algeria to follow and support the Algerian Liberation Front in their fight against the French to obtain independence – they got it in 1962. Both of these films are shown today, the 20th, whereas the festival director Petra Seliskar’s wonderful “Body”, that was also at the Sarajevo FF last week is on tomorrow. And then on the 22nd I will be in the plastic chair in Kurshumli An to enjoy master Nicolas Philibert’s new film “On the Adamant”.
I mentioned a handful, I could have gone on with other sections, check the www.makedox.mk
