Skopje Film Festival

The Skopje Film Festival is a film festival held in Skopje, Macedonia. The five-day-festival takes part every year in March, but this year was in April. Over 50 films are shown at this event, mostly from Macedonia and Europe, but also some non-commercial film productions from all over the world.
This year the festival was held from 15 - 20 April consisting over 50 films mostly from Macedonia, but also from around Europe and wider. The awards were:

- For best Film
- For best Short Film
- For best One - Minute Film

The festival was opened with the film "Punk's Not Dead" by Vladimir Blazevski, starring

Jordan Simonov, Kamka Tocinovski, Toni Mihajlovski, Dzevdet Jasari, Vladimir Tuliev, Flora Dostoska, Kiril Pop-Hristov, Jovica Mihajlovski, Ratka Radmanovic, Hajrullah Ramizi, Emir Redzepi.

On the opening of the festival, Polish film director Krzysztof Zanussi received a Lifetime Achievement Award.

Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Polish producer and film director. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is also a professor at the Silesian University in Katowice.

This year, the audience selected "A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop" by Zhang Yimou for Best film.

The winner for Best short film is "Епизодист" by Igor Aleksov.

The winner for Best one-minute film is "Кукуригу" by the authors Дејан Џолев, Влатко Артисто and Крсто Златков.

A festival, filled with art from all over Macedonia, Europe and wider, shown in our beautiful city Skopje, at the most know film festival in Skopje, Skopje Film Festival.

Skopje Film Festival Website: http://www.skopjefilmfestival.com.mk/index.html