Labina Mitevska

Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air.

Set against a background of political turbulence in Macedonia and contemporary London, three love stories intertwine to create a powerful portrait of modern Europe.

A young boy and his sister are drawn into one man's obsessive pursuit of his former lover. (imdb)

Mitsevska's first feature presents a slice of Macedonian life in 2001, the year the former Yugoslav republic skirted civil war with its ethnic Albanian citizens. Presenting an affecting story of a brother and sister who love each other but have to bridge different political ideas and personal agendas effectively captures the tension of the time. (Red Diaper Productions)

Parts of a corpse have been found and a suspect, Plamen Goranov, brother of the murdered man, is detained. He denies any charges and for want of conclusive evidence, the investigation is about to be suspended. Then a new investigator is appointed, Alexandra Yakimova, who starts everything from scratch... (imdb)

Described by its director as "a highly emotional story, a tragedy right from its start that aims to get right to the stomach of the spectator, I Am from Titov Veles is set in contemporary Macedonia, where three sisters, the man-crazy Sapho, her twin, the reticent Afrodita, and the ex-addict Slavica, fight against the norms but also long to be a part of them, struggling to find their places as women... (iksv.org)

A police inspector investigates an unusual suicide case. The investigation develops into an obsession, inspector starts living in the apartment of the deceased, digging through his life and gradually taking over his identity. (imdb)

Years after the end of the Bosnian war, a woman finds evidence that her young daughter, who disappeared during the war, might have survived and been adopted by a German family. (imdb)

Teona Strugar Mitevska's third film makes use of fairy-tale elements to describe the tragedies of two families. The picture begins in France and follows its protagonists deep into the forests of Macedonia. (Berlinale)

Day before Easter 2012, perfectly lined up bodies of four teenagers, each with a bullet hole in their head, were found near a lake just outside Skopje, Macedonian capital. They just went fishing. The nation was shocked. The rumors run wild. It is a film about a country where life can cease suddenly without a cause, as it is lived. (imdb)

A Macedonian woman throws herself into a traditionally men-only ceremony, kicking up a ruckus and standing her ground. (imdb)y

Asja is a 40-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo. She meets Zoran, a 43-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness. During the war in 1993 he was shooting at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, they both have to relive the pain in their search for forgiveness. (imdb)