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Kontakt
Year: 2005 / Country: Macedonia, Germany / Runtime: 120 min. / Languages: Macedonian, German
Drama, comedy about two misfits. A mad woman and a jailbird saving each other’s life. Zana (25) and Janko (40) are released the same day; she from the psychiatry and he from prison. Their homes were sold to politicians that hide from Den Haag. Now, these two extremely opposite persons are forced to come together, realizing that they know one another from a long time ago. And they fall in love. Zana picks up something of Janko’s negative energy and learns how to use it to get along in everyday life. He feels how she takes the pressure from him and he discovers new aspects of his life. His aggression that he turned somehow against himself becomes less intensive. They work out together, but then Zana discovers the truth. After he confesses to her, that everything he did for her was for money, Zana falls back in her apathy…
Production company: Skopje Film Studio MKD and Busse & Halberschmidt DEU
Producers: Tomi SALKOVSKI, Marcelo BUSSE, Markus HALBERSCHMIDT
World Sales: East-West Distribution, Austria
Directed by Sergej STANOJKOVSKI ; Screenplay by Gordan MIHIC and Sergej STANOJKOVSKI; Cinematographer Tomislav PINTER ; Music composed by Peer RABEN; Sound designer Peter SCHUMACHER; Editor Andrea PUGNER; Art director Toni MICHEVIC; Costume designer Rade VASILEV; Make up artist Radmila TODOROVIC
CAST: Labina MITEVSKA, Nikola KOJO, Petar MIRCHEVSKI, Vesna PETRUSHEVSKA, Vladimir ENDROVSKI
Festivals and Awards
2007 - 17. Palm Springs International Film Festival, USA - John Schlesinger Award
2006 - 10. International Film Festival Sofia, Bulgaria; 29. Grenzlandfilmtage Selb, Germany; 39. Houston World Film Festival, USA - Special Gold Jury Remi Award; 3. Crossing Europe International Film Festival, Linz, Austria - Ray Audience Award; 7. Festival del Cinema Europeo, Lecce, Italy - Premio Reale Mutua Assicurazioni Award;
3. Neiße Film Festival, Germany; 3. South East European Film Festival, Los Angeles; 59. Cannes Film Festival - Market, France; 21. Troia International Film Festival, Portugal; 9. Brooklyn International Film Festival, USA - Best Cinematography Award; 1. Film Festival du Film Brussels, Belgium; 20. Napa Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival, USA - Best Actress Award; 30. World Film Festival Montreal, Canada; Mühlheim an der Ruhr, Germany - RUHRPREIS - Award for Art and Economics; Vilnius Nordic Film Forum Scanorama, Lituania; 22. Warsaw International Film Festival, Poland; 22. Haifa International Film Festival, Israel; 1. Rome Film Festival, Italy; AFM American Film Market - Los Angeles, USA; 12. European Film Festival on Wheels, Turkey - Golden Goose Competition Special Mention; Festival de Cine Seville, Spain; Ljubljana International Film Festival, Slovenia; 12. Kolkata International Film Festival, India; 30. Cairo International Film Festival, Egypt; 1. Tahiti Film Festival; Macedonia’s Official Entry Foreign Language Academy Award 2007
2005 - 26. Manaki Brothers ICFF, Bitola, Macedonia - Macedonian Premiere; 29. Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Brazil; FBW Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden, Germany - Prädikat Besonders Wertvoll;
54. International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Germany - German Premiere; 46. International Thessaloniki Film Festival, Greece; 10. International Film Festival Kerala, India; 4. Pune International Film Festival, India; 56. Berlinale - European Film Market, Germany; 34. Belgrade International Film Festival, Serbia & Montenegro