ASTERFEST FILM FESTIVAL Strumica
  • Home
  • SUBMIT
  • FILMS
    • Short Film Competition
    • Special Premiere: THORN
    • Tribute: ŽŽŽ
  • AWARDS
  • GALLERY
    • LAUREATE 2022
    • LAUREATE 2021
    • LAUREATE 2020
  • PROGRAMME
    • PORTRAIT
    • WORKSHOP
  • JURY
  • ABOUT

RETROSPECTIVE

Picture
37°C
by Tamara Sulamanidze

(30 min, 2005, Georgia)

Road story about things that losers usually do.
​

[The film is successfully screened at III AsterFest.]
Picture
ABANDONED EDEN
by Eno Milkani

(20 min, 2002, Albania)

A coastal part of southern Albania is abandoned by crowds of young people due to the terrible social conditions. This poetic short documentary represents an effective cinematic rendering of pain felt deeply over the disappearance of cultural values.
​

[The film is screened and awarded at III AsterFest.]
Picture
ART OF PRAYER
by Stefan Shashkov

(22 min, 2003, Republic of Macedonia)

This film is only a fragment of a complex film project, that in a documentary, but artistic way meets the phenomenon of "praying" - a phenomenon which is present everywhere and common to every known religion.
​

[The film is successfully screened at VIII AsterFest & Tiberiopolian Film Evening in 2010.]
Picture
​BREATH 
by Damien Hirst

(2 min, 2001, Ireland / UK)

Based on the same named Beckett's dramaticule.
Picture
CUTTING LOOSE
by Finlay Pretsell and Adrian McDowall

(30 min, 2011, UK)

This documentary gives an inside look at Scotland’s prison system, as told through inmates/hairdressers as they ready themselves for the annual Scottish Prison Service Hairdressing Competition.
​

[The film is screened and awarded at VIII AsterFest.]
​

Picture
DEAR ANNE-MARIEKE
by Anne-Marieke Graafmans

(13 min, 2010, Netherlands)

A documentary on how unknown people reflect on their own life and love, after they have read a personal love letter that I received from my ex-boyfriend eight years ago.
​

[The film is screened at VII AsterFest.]
​
Picture
DOOR
by Juanita Wilson

(17 min, 2008, Ireland)

A father's desperate attempt to come to terms with the devastating effects of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
​

[Academy Award nominated short, successfully screened at V AsterFest.]
Picture
FAREWELL
by Branko Gapo
(9 min, 1964, SR Macedonia)


There were a lot of crashed and useless buildings and objects in Skopje after the earthquake that happened on July 26th, 1963. This is a film about the period immediately after the earthquake, when Skopje has become a huge constructing site and all objects that had no possibilities to be rebuild, were destroyed. The people were saying goodbye to their old homes and their old town.



THE BIRDS ARE COMING
by Branko Gapo
(19 min, 1956, NR Macedonia)


The film is a fiction-documentary story for the way of fishing in Doiran Lake, with the help of the birds - cormorants.The fals with the people and birds' connection, birds are the best workers and irreplaceable assistants to the fishermen.The fishermen are happy when cormorants are coming as the fishing can start.
[The film is screened at II AsterFest when Branko Gapo is announced as the first laureate of Aster award in 2006.]  

​

THE BORDER
by Branko Gapo
(12 min, 1962, NR Macedonia)


According to the previously determined and agreed day and place, the border between two countries, FNR Yugoslavia (NR Macedonia) and Bulgaria, has been opening for one day. In this case, there is no need for any documents, and relatives and friends could see and meet each other freely. It is one more occasion for a meeting, or for one more try to look for the people separated in the past...

Picture
THE END OF THE WORLD
by Jani Bojadzi

(20 min, 2011, Republic of Macedonia)

In times of great drought, а Father and а Son are searching for water using wooden crotch, an old Macedonian tradition. But instead of water, they'll discover a strange golden cable. Even though the Father opposes, the Son will cut off the cable that energizes the stars and the moon, turning them off.  It’s starting to rain.
​
[The film is screened and awarded at VI AsterFest.]

Picture
​TOBACCO GIRL
by Biljana Garvanlieva

(29 min, 2009, Germany)

Mümine is fourteen and lives with her family in the Macedonian mountains.  While she thinks about boys, school and leaving home, her parents have an arranged marriage in mind. The film shows Mümine in her daily life at moments of major decisions for a self-determined future.
​

[The film is screened and awarded at VI AsterFest.]

Cover painting: Bogdan Bakić , 1958/59