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- Filiz Ahmet (born 15 April 1981) is a Macedonian-born Turkish stage and screen actress. She is best known for her roles as Zarife in the Turkish TV series Farewell Rumelia and Nigar Kalfa in the TV series Muhtesem Yüzyil.
Filiz Ahmet was born in Skopje, SR Macedonia. She is of Turkish descent. Filiz Ahmet has dual Macedonian and Turkish citizenship. Her mother works as a prompter, while her grandfather, Lüftü Seyfullah, was a Macedonian stage actor and co-founder of the Macedonian-Turkish Theatre.
The first play she watched in the theater was The Idiot, based on the novel by the same name written by Fyodor Dostoevsky. She developed a lifelong passion for theater, and was 6 when she first appeared on stage.
Ahmet's childhood coincided with the Yugoslav Wars. Due to the conflict, her family decided to go to Sweden, and later returned to Macedonia when she was 15. Filiz Ahmet graduated from medical school and then the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje in 2003.
Ahmet is multilingual and is able to speak Macedonian, Albanian, Turkish, Swedish, English, Serbian, and Bulgarian.
She began as a stage actress and received several performance awards. She did not plan to act on-screen, and her busy theater schedule allowed little time for anything else. However, her breakthrough performance occurred in 2007 when she appeared in the role of Zarife in the series Farewell Rumelia. To make her character more expressive, Ahmet spoke her role in the Macedonian Turkish dialect. After this series, she received offers in various television series. Her next project was Balkan Wedding, where she took the role of Galina in 2009.
In 2010, Ahmet received the role of Nigar Kalfa in a prime-time historical Turkish television series, Muhtesem Yüzyil (The Magnificent Century). The show is very successful in the Balkan region and Turkey, and is broadcast in 45 countries. The series has 204 million viewers worldwide.
Her work with Muhtesem Yüzyil brought her positive responses and acclaim from critics. - Actor
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Bertan Asllani was born on 3 July 1990 in Skopje, Macedonia. He is an actor and composer, known for Wild Heart (2023), Love and Secrets (2019) and Aynur Aydin: Salla (2018).- Actress
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Sara Sandeva was born on 25 June 1997 in Skopje, Macedonia. She is an actress, known for Necista krv (2021), The Fury (2016) and Je Suis Karl (2021).- Director
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Milcho Manchevski's acclaimed Before the Rain is considered "one of the greatest debut feature films in the history of cinema" (Annette Insdorf) and "one of the most important films of the decade" (Ann Kibbey). The New York Times included it on its list "Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made". It won the Golden Lion in Venice, Independent Spirit, an Academy Award nomination and 30 other awards.
"Manchevski continues down his distinctive artistic path" (Hollywood Reporter) with the award-winning features Dust (which opened Venice 2001), Shadows, Mothers, Bikini Moon, Willow, the short forms The End of Time, Thursday, Macedonia Timeless, 1.73, Arrested Development's Tennessee and an episode of HBO's The Wire. "His work stands out in world cinema for its unique way of playing with space, time and emotion" (Keith Brown).
Roger Ebert said, "Work like this keeps me going. A reminder of the nobility that film can attain." "His unique blend of experimentation, poetry, emotion, and a demand for the active participation of the viewer in the construction of meaning are highly praised." (Conor McGrady). His work is part of the curricula at numerous universities and is the subject of many essays and books.
Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films Willow (2019), Bikini Moon (2017), Mothers (2010), Shadows (2007), Dust (2001), Before the Rain (1994) and over 50 short forms, including The End of Time (2017), Thursday (2013), 1.73 (1984) and the music video Tennessee (1991) for Arrested Development. He has also been a director on HBO's The Wire (2002). He had three solo exhibitions of photographs, published works of fiction, books of photographs and staged performance art.
Before the Rain won an Academy-Award nomination and thirty awards, including Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice, Independent Spirit, FIPRESCI, UNESCO, best film of the year in Argentina, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, and other awards in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, etc. The New York Times included Before the Rain on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made.
All of Manchevski's films were widely screened at international film festivals. Dust was the opening film of the Venice Film Festival. Willow, Shadows and Mothers were the Macedonian Academy Awards entries. Willow and Mothers were selected among the 40 European films of the year by the European Film Academy committee. Willow opened at the Rome Film Festival and subsequently won five festival awards. Mothers screened in the Panorama section of Berlinale, later winning seven festival awards.
Manchevski also won awards for his shorts Thursday (2013) and The End of Time (2017), best experimental film (for 1.73), best MTV video (for Tennessee, which The Rolling Stone placed on the list of the 100 best videos ever), and best commercial (for Macedonia Timeless (2009)).
His films are part of the curricula at numerous universities worldwide, and have been discoursed at a number of conferences. The University of Leipzig (Germany) and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) hosted academic conferences dedicated, respectively, to Before the Rain and Dust.
He has published fiction, essays and op-ed pieces in Journal of Screenwriting, New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Pravda, etc. Manchevski has staged performance art with the group 1AM (which he founded) and by himself.
He has published a (very small) book of fiction, The Ghost of My Mother (1985), a short book on art theory Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art (2012), a book of photographs and essays Pictures, Words and Lies (2015) and three books of photographs, Street (1999), Five Drops of Dream (2010) and There (2020) which accompany the three solo photo exhibitions.
He taught and served as Head of Directing Studies at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Graduate Film program. He has also taught and lectured at a number of universities, cinematheques, art museums and art institutes: Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, EICTV (Cuba), VGIK (Russia), London Film School, Oxford Brookes, Cambridge, University of Chicago, University of Texas (Austin), Brown University, FDU (Belgrade), Shanghai Normal University, Hanoi Cinematheque, University of Tsukuba (Japan), University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (the German state film school), Universität Bielefeld, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), etc.
Manchevski's work has screened at more than four hundred festivals, and has been distributed in more than 60 countries (theatrically, TV, cable, streaming and video).
He holds an honorary doctorate from VGIK in Moscow, Russia. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, European Film Academy and the PEN Club.
He has served on festival juries in Venice, Shanghai, Warsaw, Locarno, Teheran, Vilnius, Pula, Montenegro, FEST (Belgrade), Munich, Rostov-on-Don, Hainan, etc.- Director
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Teona Strugar Mitevska was born on 14 March 1974 in Skopje, Yugoslavia [now Macedonia]. She is a director and writer, known for The Happiest Man in the World (2022), Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija (2019) and Jas sum od Titov Veles (2007).- Mother Teresa also known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun who in 1950 founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity. Although her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, she was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Skopje, capital of North Macedonia. After living in Skopje for eighteen years, she moved to Ireland and then to India, where she lived for most of her life.
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Labina Mitevska was born in 1975 in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia. She studied in the faculty of Art and Archaeology at the University of St. Kiril and Metodi (Skopje) as well at the European Film College (Denmark) and the University of Arizona's Department of Art History. She started her career by coincidence, starting in Milcho Manchevski's film Pred Dozdot (Before the Rain (1994)) in the role of Zamira, a young North Macedonian Albanian girl. Her next appearance was in the North Macedonian theatre production of Tuku Taka Pod Oblaka (All of a Sudden Under the Clouds). In 1996, Labina played a supporting role in Welcome to Sarajevo (1997), directed by Michael Winterbottom, who next cast her in I Want You (1998). In 2000, she had the lead role in the Czech film Loners, and next appeared in Too Bad That Balkan Express Was Already Used, directed by her sister Teona Mitevska. Beside acting, a couple of her essays have appeared in the North Macedonian magazines Start and Dnevnik.- Sabina Toziya is an actress born in 1946 in Skopje, Macedonia. In the Magnificent Century series, Afife Hatun and Eskiya played the character of Hayriye Cakirbeyli in the series No Ruler of the World she. She left the series in 2021 due to a partial paralysis due to a tumor in her brain.
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Igor Ivanov Izi is a film director and writer, born 1973 in Skopje, Macedonia. He started his professional career in 1993, directing TV series. From 1995 to 2004 he made several short films and documentaries presented and awarded at festivals worldwide. His short "Bubachki" was in competition of the 54th Berlinale and won a Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival. In 2007 his first feature film Upside Down was presented at Karlovy Vary film festival and won the Best Director prize at Mostra De Valencia Film Festival. His second feature titled as "The Piano Room" was released in Macedonia on 15th September 2013 and premiered in USA at 50th Chicago Film Festival. The working title of his next full length movie is "The Sugar Kid".- Director
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Darko is a European-born, American-based, genre-oriented writer and director. Graduated with a degree in Film and TV Directing in his native country, worked in several others. Passionate about suspense thrillers, mystery SF, all kinds of westerns and dark comedies. Heavily influenced by non-superhero comics and vinyl records. Adores cats, despite his allergy.- Actor
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Bajram Severdzan was born in 1966 in Skopje, Macedonia. He is an actor, known for Black Cat, White Cat (1998), To the Hilt (2014) and Gypsy Magic (1997).- Actress
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Ana Stojanovska was born on 15 October 1989 in Skopje, Yugoslavia [now Skopje, Macedonia]. She is an actress, known for Od denes za utre (2010), Insajder (2017) and Radius (2023).- Cinematographer
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Karpo Acimovic-Godina was born on 26 June 1943 in Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Piknik v nedeljo (1968), Red Boogie (1982) and The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk (1970).- Actress
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Ljubica Adzovic was born in 1924 in Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. She was an actress, known for Black Cat, White Cat (1998), Time of the Gypsies (1988) and Dom za vesanje (1990). She died on 23 May 2006.- Actor
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Luran Ahmeti was born on 31 July 1974 in Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Taken 2 (2012), Bal-Can-Can (2005) and Leyla and Mecnun (2011). He died on 25 March 2021 in Skopje, North Macedonia.- Director
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Darijan Pejovski is a writer/director based in Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia. In 2015, his first feature film "Three days in September" had its premiere at the Montreal World Film Festival. The film was also shown at the Chicago Intl. Film Festival, Filmfestival Cottbus etc. He also directed five TV series, and numerous commercials for some of the most prominent clients in the country. "Mimi" is his second feature film, supported by North Macedonia Film Agency Croatian Audiovisual Centre & Film Centre of Montenegro.- Aleksandar Mikic was born on 9 February 1966 in Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. He is an actor, known for Kill the Children first, Before the Rain (1994) and Mejking of (2018).
- Salaetin Bilal was born on 19 March 1942 in Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. He was an actor, known for Behind Enemy Lines (2001), Vo svetot na bajkite 2 (2001) and Takva (2006). He died on 10 May 2018 in Skopje, Macedonia.
- Sinolicka Trpkova was born on 22 July 1965 in Skopje, Macedonia. She is an actress, known for Time of the Gypsies (1988), Happy New Year (1986) and Goodbye, 20th Century (1998).
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Gjorce Stavreski was born on 28 December 1978 in Skopje, Macedonia. Gjorce is a director and writer, known for Secret Ingredient (2017), Adam and Eve (2005) and Doma (2007).- Director
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Stole Popov was born on 20 August 1950 in Skopje, Macedonia. He is a director and writer, known for Happy New Year (1986), Gypsy Magic (1997) and Avstralija, Avstralija (1976).- Actor
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Ivo Trajkov was born on 27 June 1965 in Skopje, Yugoslavia [now in Macedonia]. He is an actor and director, known for Piargy (2022), Minulost (1998) and The Great Water (2004). He is married to Verica Nedeska. They have one child.- Igor Dzambazov was born on 15 July 1963 in Skopje, Macedonia. He is an actor and composer, known for A Weekend of Deceased Persons (1988), Vikend na mrtovci (1990) and Uciliste za klovnovi (1987). He was previously married to Iskra Misic-Dzambazova.
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Zoran Petrovski was born on 30 May 1982 in Skopje, Macedonia. He is a director and assistant director, known for Dilwale (2015), Shivaay (2016) and Theri (2016).- Director
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Antonio Mitrikeski was born in 1961 in Skopje, Macedonia. He is a director and writer, known for Across the Lake (1997), As a Bad Dream (2003) and Children of the Sun (2014).