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BAJRUSH MJAKU - SEE ACTOR 2022

5/23/2022

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Bajrush Mjaku was born in 1952, in Kacanik (Gjurgjedell), Kosovo. He attended the Dramatic Arts at Higher Pedagogical School, The University of Prishtina, Kosovo. Since 1973 is employed at Albanian Theatre in Skopje, where he played more than 120 roles on stage in plays such as “The Bundle” – E. Bond, (1981), “King Lear” – W. Shakespeare (1995), directed by Vladimir Milčin,  “Branch” – K. Casule,(1987) directed by Meto Jovanovski, “Baal” - B. Brecht,(1991) directed by Branko Brezovec, “The Father” – A. Strindberg, (2003), “Uncle Vanya“– A.P. Chekhov (2007) directed by Slobodan Unkovski, Tomorrow we’ll go to paradise” - Teki Dervishi, (2000) directed by Dritëro Kasapi - “Tartuffe”– Moliere, (2008) directed by Rahim Burhan, etc.

Off his home stage, as a guest actor he played at the Theatre of Drama – Skopje, Macedonian National Theatre - Skopje, Theatre Pralipe, Turkish Theatre - Skopje, Alternative Theatre of Prishtina - Prishtina, National Theatre - Prishtina, Interkult - Stockholm, City Theatre – Upsala (Sweden) and in many various independent projects such as: Branch, Skomrahi, Salome, “Five” Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Podgorica and Skopje. National Theatre - Gjakovo, National Theatre of Kosovo, Qatar Theatre Group, Doha – Qatar, “The red”- Orhan Pamuk, directed by Martin Kochovski.

He had many TV and film roles, most notably in “Trieste via Skopje”, “Zoti i vraftë spiunët”, “Peaches of love”, Father’s books”, “Vendetta”, “Agnus Dei”, Mirush”, “Donkeys of the border“, etc.

In the same time, he produced a number of independent theatre projects, like “Golden leaf’s” – Selvinaze Abazi, directed by Dritëro Kasapi, “The open Couple” – Dario Fo, directed by Sulejman Rushiti, “Diary of a Madman” – Gogol, directed by Ivan Popovski.

In 1980, 1990 and 2003/2004 – he holds the position of Artistic manager of Albanian Theatre, Skopje, and he is one of the founders, and manager of production of the Children’s Theater Center, Skopje.

He has participated in all theatre festivals in Macedonia, former Yugoslavia and Europe, like Bergen international theater festival, Bergen (Norway), Mittelfest – Cividale del Friuli, Italy, Pula summer Festival, Pula, Croatia, Days of Culture, Tirana, Albania, Mess International Theater Festival – Sarajevo, BiH, Theatre Meeting, Cankarjev dom – Ljubljana, Slovenia, Vienna Fest Wohen – Vienna, Austria, Bonner Bienale ‘2000 – Bonn, Germany, Festival de Avignon – Avignon, France.

For his exceptional achievements in acting, he received a number of awards, Prize for leading role, Macedonian Theatre Festival “Vojdan Çernodrinski”(1985,1995 and 2004), “13th November Prize” for the role of King Lear, the best actor of the year (1996), “11th October Prize” , highest state award for values in arts (1998), “Kliment Ohridski”, highest state award for extraordinary achievements in culture and arts (1998), etc.ovember Prize” for the role of King Lear, the best actor of the year (1996), “11th October Prize” , highest state award for values in arts (1998), “Kliment Ohridski”, highest state award for extraordinary achievements in culture and arts (1998), etc.
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SEE LEGEND 2022 - KARPO GODINA

5/20/2022

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 An essential figure of Yugoslav cinema, Karpo Godina infused the radical “Black Wave” of the 1960s with an irrepressible expressive freedom—squarely targeted against all forms of repression—and thrived long after the end of Titoism and the breakup of Yugoslavia in civil war. For more than 30 years, the half-Slovenian, half-Macedonian filmmaker has brought a playfully anarchical spirit to the poetics and politics of film, moving breathlessly between fiction and nonfiction in his avant-garde shorts of the 1960s and ’70s and his feature films of the 1980s and ’90s.
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Godina was a frequent collaborator of Bahrudin “Bato” Čengić, Želimir Žilnik, Lordan Zafranović, and other pioneering members of the Black Wave, and he has since worked comfortably in the former Yugoslavian republics as a director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor.
 
In 1969, one small, no-budget independent Yugoslav film won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale. It was Želimir Žilnik‘s seminal Early Works, today considered the main benchmark of what was to become knows as the Yugoslav Black Wave, and in the same time introduced the world to a cinematographer that will come to define an era in edgy and transgressive European cinema – Karpo Aćimović Godina.

Karpo Godina was born in Skopje in 1943, the son of Viktor Aćimović, photographer, journalist, revolutionary and bohemian and Milena Godina, actress and co-founder of the Macedonian State Theatre. He spent his early childhood in Skopje, and adolescence in Maribor. Later, he began shooting 8mm experimental films. In the sixties he studied film, TV radio and theatre direction at the Ljubljana Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television, where he later on taught as professor of film directing and camera.

As a cinematographer, Karpo Godina worked on films that defined Yugoslav and Europan cinema- from Žilnik’s short The Black Film, to challenging and subversive titles such as Bahrudin Bato Čengić‘s The Role of My Family in the World Revolution and Life of a Shock Force Worker, and Lordan Zafranović‘s Passion According to Matthew and Occupation in 26 Pictures. He also lensed today’s cult items A Little Train Robbery by Dejan Šorak, and Landscape with a Woman by Ivica Matić, and collaborated on international productions such as The Magic Snowman (1987), Journey to the South (1988), Private War (1988). As a DoP, he made a total of 21 feature films, 26 shorts, and 12 TV dramas.

As a director, Godina’s three features – The Medusa Raft, Red Boogie and Artificial Paradise – are highly regarded in the arthouse circles, and were screened at almost all major film festivals: Cannes, Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Sidney, Melbourne, Toronto, Edinburgh, Istanbul, San Francisco, Rotterdam, Strasbourg and many others.

However, his most influential films were shorts, which he practically re-invented with his fresh formal approach, combining love for humanity and contempt for uniformity and authority in  About the Art of Love or a Film with 14441 Frames, Healthy People for Fun, and Fried Brain of Pupilija Ferkeverk. He also participated in cult hippie-era omnibus film I Miss Sonia Henie, together with Tinto Brass, Puriša Djordjević, Milos Forman, Buck Henry, Dušan Makavejev, Paul Morrissey and Frederic Wiseman.
 
As an editor, he worked on five feature films, 16 shorts, 11 TV dramas and seven 8mm experimental films, and he also directed operas and theatre plays.
He was mentor for directing on 29 student short feature films and these films got about 30 national and international awards.

Karpo Godina is a member of  IMAGO – European Federation of Cinematographers. IMAGO’s jury selected The Medusa Raft as the most prominent film for the year 1980.
As a jury member he contributed at more than 50 national and international film festivals.
In 2006 he received the Prešern Award for Life Achievement- the highest state award in the field of arts and culture in Slovenia.

In 2011, he got the appellation Professor Emeritus of the University of Ljubljana.
In 2013, the footage Godina filmed around villages of Vojvodina after shooting Early Works but never completed into a motion picture, was made into an acclaimed documentary titled Karpotrotter, directed by Slovenian film critic and film-maker Matjaz Ivanisin.

In 2016, Karpo Godina was awarded the Underground Spirit prize at the European Film Festival Palić, a recognition assigned for exceptional work in the field of independent film and unique poetics developed off the film industry mainstream.
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SUBMISSIONS FOR SEE FF 2022 ARE OPEN!

12/15/2021

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                                                       The call for submissions is open until 31 March 2022.

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                                                              South-East European Film Festival 2022
                                                             SEE FF - BERLIN - PARIS - WASHINGTON
 
 
“SEE FILM FESTIVAL” is established by Association SEE a Paris, a non-profit organization whose responsibilities include, among others, the selection of the Festival line-up and the films in competition. The Festival will have an online edition, for the audiences exclusively from Paris (France), Berlin (Germany) and Washington (USA), from 01 to 06 June 2022.

 
“SEE FILM FESTIVAL” is open to all films (feature, documentary, fiction and animation) whose directors and/or producers originate from the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.

The festival has officially opened its call for entries and accepts submissions of short, medium, and long films for the Main Competition.

All shooting formats are accepted. 
The duration of the short films must not exceed 15 minutes.
There's no time limit for feature, documentary and animation films.

The deadline for submission is 1 March 2022.

There is no submission fee.
We prefer online submission through the web platforms FilmFreeway.
You can, however, still apply directly to the Festival. In this case, it is mandatory that applicants send a download link or link to online screener of their film, along with a filled and signed ENTRY FORM on the mail info@seeaparis.com. For any other form of submission, please contact us by mail.  

For more information about the application please read the REGULATIONS.
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​BALKANOFILMOPHILIA: "SEE FF  2021" in Skopje

9/30/2021

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​BALKANOFILMOPHILIA: "SEEFF 2021" film  review - (Southeast European Film Festival –Paris-Berlin-Washington 2021), presentation of the awarded films from the selection program of the Festival of Cinematography of Southeast Europe, Paris-Berlin-Washington 2021.
The Festival of Southeast Europe (www.see-ff.net, www.seeaparis.com)  is organized by the International University EUROPA PRIMA - Skopje (www.europaprima.com), and its subsidiary "EFA Production "(produkcija@esra.com.mk), in partnership with Humboldt University of Berlin, INALCO University - Paris, and  SEE Association from Paris.
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Venue:  Cinematheque of Macedonia
Dates: October 1, 2 and 3, Start at 8 p.m.
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THE AWARDS OF SEE FF 2021

6/10/2021

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Dear festival friends,
 
The 11th edition of the SEE FF PARIS-BERLIN-WASHINGTON 2021 is officially closed.
We hope you had a good time with the SEE films.
 
We like to thank our friends: 
CINESQUARE.NET  film platform,
for their generous contribution and support, which made this online edition possible.  
 
The members of the European jury of SEE FF  2021:

Frosa Pejoska-Bouchereau, president
Frederic Fappani von Lothringen, and
Yves Rousslet

announced their winners:
 
  • Best actor : Petar BOŽOVIĆ (SER)
  • Best actress : Vica KEREKES (HUN)
  • Best script : SENIOR CITIZEN (CYP)
  • Best director : Attila SZÁSZ (HUN)
  • Best feature film : TALL TALES (HUN)
  • Best short film : RAINBOW (MNE)
  • Best documentary : DO YOU GO OUT? (CRO)
  • Best animation: QUARANTINE (MKD)

 Special Award for "The Witch's Cauldron" - Branislav Jankić (SER),  
 INALCO Student Jury award: "Dante’s Heaven" (BUL)
The award of 
“Salon du livre des Balknas”: "Senior Citizen" (CYP)


The awards of the American jury, consisting of:

Roman Kostovski, president
Patricia Corbett, and 

Jacqueline Headington, are:
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  • Best Actor: Savo Šćepanović (MNE)
  • Best Actress: Marina Argyridou (CYP)
  • Best Director: Attila Szasz (HUN)
  • Best Script: Tall Tales (HUN)
  • Best Feature: Lazy Guy (MNE)
  • Best Documentary: Testament to Time (BIH)
  • Best Short: The Visit (MNE)
  • Best Animation: The Rhythm of the Fall (MKD)

Congratulations and SEE you next year! ​
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GET A FREE FESTIVAL ONLINE PASS!

6/3/2021

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 Hello festival friends,
We hope you are all doing well!
 
To watch the films of SEE a Paris FF 2021 open this link:
 
https://cinesquare.net/onlinefestivals#/seff 
or
CLICK HERE

 
Sign in with:
Username: Seeaparis2021
Pass: see2021
 
 
After you enter the Cinesquare platform, choose the films you want to watch from the menu:
FEATURE
DOCUMENTARY
SHORT
ANIMATION
FESTIVAL VIDEOS
 
Select the film you want to watch, and press on the picture or title.
If you are seeing "Cannot be watched" button, just wait few seconds or refresh the page, and you will get “Buy a ticket”. Click on the play button and use promo code: 5E6ULF
 
 
Make sure you are watching the film from the beginning.
Almost all of the films have embedded subtitles. In case you do not see subtitles, click on the CC button in the video player, and select subtitles.
 
Have fun!
 

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ADDRESSING OF PROF. DR VESNA BRATIĆ, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE, CULTURE AND SPORTS OF MONTENEGRO

6/2/2021

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Dear Mr. Plevneš,
Dear participants in the 11th SEEFF of Southeast Europe,
Admirers of the seventh art,
 
          I want to extend a very warm welcome to all of you and wish you a successful realization of the 11th edition of the Southeast European Film Festival SEEFF-Paris-Berlin-Washington 2021.

         The global pandemic has forced us to replace direct communication, which is the core of culture, with a hygienic concept of culture. Therefore, festivals, as well as numerous cultural events, have assumed online formats. The 11th edition of SEEFF promotes the idea that culture is indispensable. It always finds a way to communicate, to send a moral and a message, through artistic creation. Montenegrin cinematography will be presented in this festival by means of a selection of Montenegrin feature and documentary films made by Film Centre of Montenegro, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports.

          SEEFF's mission has lasted for 11 years. It is reflected in the continuous promotion of film culture of Southeast Europe, its specificity, as well as in universal film themes that are familiar and accessible to the audience in Paris, Berlin and Washington. Montenegrin cinematography has substantially contributed to the profiling of film culture of Southeast Europe. The beginning of the development of film production in Montenegro marks the period after the Second World War and the founding of a film production company "Lovćen film". Nevertheless, the first filmmakers from Montenegro - Vladimir Đ. Popovic, Marko M. Dragović and Pavle Petrović Njegoš, achieved notable results in filmmaking abroad in the first decades of the 20th century. For example, Pavle Petrović Njegoš, the grandson of King Nikola, participated in the directing of the film "Naked Woman" (based on the adaptation of the play of the same name by the French writer Henri Bataille) in Paris, in 1931.       
 
          Nurturing the film culture in Montenegro, as well as fostering the development of film production will be one of the priorities of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports in the future, with the aim of making Montenegrin film production even more competitive on the regional and international film cultural scene.
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         Once again, I want to commend your efforts to make SEEFF grow and enhance it each year. I see this festival as an opportunity for Western Europe and America to mirror the filmmaking of Southeast Europe.
 
PROF. DR VESNA BRATIĆ, MINISTER OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE, CULTURE AND SPORTS OF MONTENEGRO
 
 
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!

6/1/2021

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DEAR FESTIVAL FRIENDS,

DUE TO TECHNICAL PROBLEMS WITH SERVERS OF THE FILM PLATFORM, WE'RE FORCED TO DELAY THE START OF THE FESTIVAL SCHEDULED FOR 2 JUNE.

THE FESTIVAL PLATFORM  CINESQUARE WILL BE OPERATIONAL FROM 3 TO 8 JUNE, AND YOU WILL ABLE TO WATCH ALL THE FILMS WITHOUT ANY ISSUES.

WE'LL PUBLISH THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR ACCESS ON THE PLATFORM ADDITIONALLY.

WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE AND WE HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A MATTER BEYOND OUR CONTROL.



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The Balkans - The heart of Europe in Paris, Berlin and Washington 2021

6/1/2021

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Regardless of the Covid 19 pandemic, which caused colossal turmoil on the Planet Earth, Southeast European Film Festival will be present in the three capitols, to show that the cinematography of the Balkans is continuing the odyssey of the living pictures by The Seventh art, and the dream of the young generations from the Balkan countries, with The Ideal of Art  as the fundamental contribution which will be recorded in the Chronology of Civilization, and will leave traces of immortality, in spite of statistics which are exhibiting the number of dead across the meridians, and provoking anxiety that we could also be a part of that necrophilic catastrophe which fiercely erases the boundaries between Life and Death.   
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Ever since the first intellectual revolution in Europe, that took place in the Medieval Ages, with the believe that love can save the world, we can find apocryphal records, which are pointing that the etymology of the word Planetos, in fact means A Desolate man, and whole of the Planet today reflects in that Desolate man, which you can see online, in the selection of feature and animated films, shorts and documentaries, in the three metropolises of the world, through the immortal words of Nicola Bouvier: “Balkans is the heart of Europe”, from his book “The Usage of the World”, and that heart will always pulsate, if not in the common history, then in the Artist, as a Desolate man – Planetos, who believes, as Jorge Luis Borges believed,  that everything is mortal, safe for the Humanity!
 
As a response from Paris, Berlin and Washington, the awarded films from the festival will be presented in many Balkan cities, in cooperation with the Cinematheque in Macedonia, under the name “Balkanofilmophilia”, to prove the film can overcome the Balkan’s traumas and tensions, which rule in the region as a product of political industry, corruption and crime!

Let us all unite in the wishes for success of this online edition in Paris, Berlin and Washington, and in spite all the pandemic barriers, believe that from the next year we will see you live!

Jordan Plevnes
Founder and President of SEE Film Festival
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MIRTO ALIKAKI - SEE ACTRESS 2021

5/31/2021

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Mirto Alikaki is a Greek film and television actress, born in Paris in 1972 ​. She studied acting at the Greek Art Theatre "Karolos Koun" and French literature at the University of Aristotle in Thessaloniki.

A child of artists (both her parents are graduates of the School of Fine Arts), she alway had an inclination towards reading, the arts, and the cinema. She learned from a very early age to love her time with herself - and freedom.
From her first appearance on television, at the age of just seven, on ERT's show "Ela na paixoume", to the recent return with the TV series "Silent Road",  the girl  transformed in front of the public into a charming woman remains full of dynamism, talent and hard work.

Her love for art was quickly transformed into action: As soon as she finished school, she enrolled at the Art Theate, despite the fact that she had also studied French Philology. All she cared about was acting.

She became famous by playing one of the most controversial heroines of TV series, "Anastasia", that premiered on September 16, 1993, and it was a huge success. At the time she was just 21 years old.

The barrage of success followed with other series, such as: "The Lost Letters", "Absent", "The Throne Room", "Wonderful Creatures", "Karma", and more recently, "Tamam" and "Tattoo", while the theatrical role are equally important in her acting career, most recently with The Imaginary Patient by Moliere, directed by Petros Filippidis. 

Mirto Alikaki is widely known for her roles in films: "My Brother and I" (1998), "Shores of Twilight" (1998), "Black Out p.s. Red Out" (1998), "Dangerous Cooking" (2010), "A Place Called Home" (2013), "Amore Mio" (2015), "Istanbul Story" (2016), "Happy Birthday" (2017), "Do It Yourself" (2017), "Timeless Stories" (2017).
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