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Η ταινία «Sister Brother Manhole Cover» (Αδελφή, αδελφός και καπάκι φρεατίου) του σκηνοθέτη από τη Βόρεια Μακεδονία, Μίλτσο Μαντσέφσκι, μια κοινωνική σάτιρα με στοιχεία μαύρης κωμωδίας για δύο αδέλφια που επιβιώνουν συλλέγοντας και πουλώντας κλεμμένα μέταλλα από τους δρόμους των Σκοπίων, απέσπασε το Μεγάλο Βραβείο (Grand Prix) στο 39ο Διεθνές Φεστιβάλ Κινημα

Macedonian filmmaker examination of families and the wealth gap takes Grand Prix and brings 10 days of festival to a close.

Milcho Manchevski’s “Sister Brother Manhole Cover,” a comic allegory about two siblings who strip scrap metal from the streets of Skopje, won the Tokyo Grand Prix at the 39th Tokyo International Film Festival on Wednesday. A steady drizzle failed to dampen the spirits of a full house at Hulic Hall for closing night, a gentler […]

Sister Brother Manhole Cover, from Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski, won the the top award at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival. The film was presented with the Tokyo Grand Prix/The Governor of Tokyo Award, which comes with a cash prize of $19,000 (JYP3M). One of 15 films in Tokyo’s main competition section, it follows a […]

Directed by Milcho Manchevski, the film took the Tokyo Grand Prix, earning top honors among 15 entries in the Competition section.

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Milcho Manchevski, the North Macedonian director whose 1994 debut “Before the Rain” won Venice’s Golden Lion and earned an Oscar nomination, is back in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival with “Sister Brother Manhole Cover,” a project stalled for years after he accused his country’s film agency of corruption. The dark comedy centers on […]

This week, Macedonian filmmaker Milcho Manchevski returns with Sister Brother Manhole Cover, his second feature of the year, which screens in competition at the Tokyo Film Festival. Directed by Manchevski from a screenplay he also wrote, Sister Brother Manhole Cover follows siblings Malina and Viktor, who live on the outskirts of post-Communist Macedonia. Th