Best North Macedonian documentary movies

When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland’s basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

A simple story, but larger than life portrayal of the universal human saga represented through Dionis, a retiring biology professor, his wife and his fantasy of turning his unusual car collection into a museum in a small uneventful town.

Once upon a time, in the city of Veles (Macedonia), a group of teenagers discovered riches beyond their wildest dreams in the ‘digital gold rush’

This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, the first shot made in Macedonia, in the Balkans in fact, made by these two cinematography pioneers, contains peculiar symbolics: at the moment when the grandmother Despina spins the weaving wheel, film starts rolling in our country.

Sunchica and her retired friends enjoy the many cultural offerings of Skopje, on a daily basis—not to mention the free food and drinks that come with these events. But when societal judgment threatens to stop their fun, they realize just how much they need these get-togethers.

Newsreel of the visit of sultan Mehmed V Resad to Bitola.

Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning women are found raped and strangled in a small town. The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.

A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.

Macedonian mockumentary.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

A short prior to World War I film which captures festivities at a fair near a church in Bitola.

Balkan actuality.

A brief scene at a sheep slaughterhouse.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

A mass gathering of people.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

The Manaki brothers document the hanged bodies in a town square, post-Ilinden Uprising; The disheartened mill about. The men were likely killed by Muslims loyal to the ruling Ottoman Empire in attempts to quash Macedonian support for Adrianople and greater Macedonian autonomy.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

The Manaki brothers have filmed a market.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

The Manaki brothers document the elegant wedding of a presumably popular couple.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

A schoolclass in seen outside in Macedonia.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

A six minute film of the funeral of the murdered Metropolitan Emilianos of Grevena, of which all has been lost, save for 17 seconds. Emilianos was murdered on October 1st, 1911.

Early Balkan footage.

Early Balkan footage.

The parade of Serbian army in Macedonian town.

Early Balkan footage.

A couple of women are washing outside.

The Manaki brothers, from Avdella Grevenon, shot the first film of the Balkans, the famous "Weavers", in 1905. The protagonist of their first and short film was their grandmother Loukia Manaki, aged 114, who spun wool and wove on the loom.

A short documentary about Macedonian traditional instrument - kaval.

A short documentary about Macedonian traditional instrument bagpipe.

The first film about Mother Teresa.

N.E.P. or The Stones God Threw on the Barricades was made as an independent project by TV Bordoshbagn for A1 Independent Television in Skopje. The film is of an undefined genre and speaks about the Third World lies, which renowned 'well-intentioned' missionaries, founders of certain foundations and institutes, have promoted in the countries of the former socialist regime, especially in Eastern Europe. This project is an outsider's look at the paradox about the secret beauty of power and the submission to that power. N.E.P. is a video reflection on the aesthetics of the transformation of power, looked at from the point of view of the ordinary man in the so-called transitional countries who, after five years of living in 'freedom' still can't understand why the most democratic system of them all – parliamentary democracy – is better than the one before.