Bio

Manchevski’s acclaimed debut Before the Rain (1994) is considered “one of the greatest debut feature films in the history of cinema” (Annette Insdorf) and “one of the most important films of the decade” (Ann Kibbey). The New York Times included it on its list “Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made.“  It won the Golden Lion in Venice, Independent Spirit, an Academy Award nomination, FIPRESCI, UNESCO, film of the year in Argentina, Sweden, Turkey, Italy and awards in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, etc.

“Manchevski continues down his distinctive artistic path” (Hollywood Reporter) with the award-winning features Dust (which opened Venice 2001), Shadows (2007), Mothers (2010), Bikini Moon (2017), Willow (2019), Kaymak (2022) and Sister Brother Manhole Cover (2026), the feature-length documentary Good People (2026), more than 50 short forms, including The End of Time (2017), Thursday (2013), Macedonia Timeless (2010), 1.73 (1984), Arrested Development’s Tennessee (1991) and an episode of HBO`s The Wire (2002). They have been distributed globally, winning awards at Raindance, Cinequest, Valencia, Aspen, Fantasporto, FEDEORA, etc.

“Work like this keeps me going. A reminder of the nobility that film can attain.” (Roger Ebert) “His work stands out in world cinema for its unique way of playing with space, time and emotion.” (Keith Brown) “His unique blend of experimentation, poetry, emotion, and a demand for the active participation of the viewer in the construction of meaning are highly praised.” (Conor McGrady).

Manchevski’s work is the subject of numerous essays and books; it is part of the curricula at a few hundred universities and has been discoursed at a number of conferences. The University of Leipzig (Germany) and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) hosted academic conferences dedicated, respectively, to Dust and Before the Rain.

Manchevski served as head of the Directing Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Film program; he also taught at Feirstein Graduate School (Brooklyn College), EICTV (Cuba), VGIK (Russia), etc.  He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, European Film Academy and the PEN Club.

The New York Times included Milcho Manchevski’s film Before the Rain on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made and Rolling Stone put his music video Tennessee on its list of best 100 videos ever.

Manchevski has directed seven features (Before the Rain, Dust, Shadows, Mothers, Bikini Moon, Willow and Kaymak), 50 short forms, and an episode of The Wire, winning over 50 international awards (Golden Lion in Venice, Independent Spirit, FIPRESCI, an Academy Award nomination, Best Director at Raindance, Best Film at Cinequest, FEDEORA, Silver Palm in Valencia, film of the year in several countries as well as awards for experimental film, MTV, commercial, etc).

His films are part of the curricula at scores of universities. He has lived in New York since film school, writing fiction (The Ghost of My Mother) and essays (Manchevski: Five Essays), taking photographs (Street, Five Drops of Dream and There), creating art (1AM) and teaching (NYU’s Tisch, Brooklyn College’s Feirstein).

Milcho Manchevski wrote and directed the feature films Sister Brother Manhole Cover (2026), Kaymak (2022), Willow (2019), Bikini Moon (2017), Mothers (2010), Shadows (2007), Dust (2001), Before the Rain (1994), the feature-length documentary Good People (2026) and over 50 short forms, including The End of Time (2017), Thursday (2013), 1.73 (1984) and the music video Tennessee (1991) for Arrested Development. He has also been a director on HBO’s The Wire (2002). He had three solo exhibitions of photographs, published works of fiction, books of photographs and staged performance art.

Before the Rain won an Academy-Award nomination and thirty awards, including Golden Lion for Best Film in Venice, Independent Spirit, FIPRESCI, UNESCO, best film of the year in Argentina, Italy, Sweden, Turkey, and other awards in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, etc. The New York Times included Before the Rain on its list of the best 1,000 films ever made.

All of Manchevski’s films were widely screened at international film festivals. Dust was the opening film of the Venice Film Festival. Willow, Shadows and Mothers were the Macedonian Academy Awards entries. Willow and Mothers were selected among the 40 European films of the year by the European Film Academy committee. Willow opened at the Rome Film Festival and subsequently won five festival awards. Mothers screened in the Panorama section of Berlinale, later winning seven festival awards.

Manchevski also won awards for his shorts Thursday (2013) and The End of Time (2017), best experimental film (for 1.73), best MTV video (for Tennessee, which The Rolling Stone placed on the list of the 100 best videos ever), and best commercial (for Macedonia Timeless (2009)).

His films are part of the curricula at numerous universities worldwide, and have been discoursed at a number of conferences. The University of Leipzig (Germany) and the European University Institute in Florence (Italy) hosted academic conferences dedicated, respectively, to Before the Rain and Dust.

He has published fiction, essays and op-ed pieces in Journal of Screenwriting, New American Writing, La Repubblica, Corriere Della Sera, Sineast, The Guardian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Pravda, etc.

Manchevski has staged performance art with the group 1AM (which he founded) and by himself.

He has published a (very small) book of fiction, The Ghost of My Mother (1985), a short book on art theory Truth and Fiction: Notes on (Exceptional) Faith in Art (2012), a book of photographs and essays Pictures, Words and Lies (2015) and three books of photographs, Street (1999), Five Drops of Dream (2010) and There (2020) which accompany the three solo photo exhibitions.

He taught and served as Head of Directing Studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Film program. He has also taught and lectured at a number of universities, cinematheques, art museums and art institutes: Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College, EICTV (Cuba), VGIK (Russia), London Film School, Oxford Brookes, Cambridge, University of Chicago, University of Texas (Austin), Brown University, FDU (Belgrade), Shanghai Normal University, Hanoi Cinematheque, University of Tsukuba (Japan), University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (the German state film school), Universität Bielefeld, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), etc.

Manchevski’s work has screened at more than three hundred festivals, and has been distributed in more than 50 countries (theatrically, TV, cable, streaming and video).

He holds an honorary doctorate from VGIK in Moscow, Russia. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, European Film Academy and the PEN Club.

He has served on festival juries in Venice, Shanghai, Warsaw, Locarno, Teheran, Vilnius, Pula, Montenegro, FEST (Belgrade), Munich, Rostov-on-Don, Hainan, etc.

FILMOGRAPHY

AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

FEATURES

• Sister Brother Manhole Cover (2026)
• Good People (2026), Premiere: Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Hercegovina
• KAYMAK (2022), Premiere: Tokyo International Film Festival, Japan
• WILLOW (2019), Premiere: Festa del Cinema di Roma, Italy
• BIKINI MOON (2017), Premiere: Mostra Internacional de Cinema São Paulo, Brazil
• MOTHERS (2010) Premieres: Toronto Intl Film Festival, Berlin Intl Film Festival – Panorama
• SHADOWS (2007), Premiere: Toronto Intl Film Festival
• DUST (2001), Premiere: Venice Intl Film Festival (Opening night film)
• BEFORE THE RAIN (1994), Premiere: Venice Intl Film Festival (Golden Lion winner)

SHORT FORMS / EXPERIMENTAL FILMS

• THE END OF TIME (2017)
• ECU (VIDEO ART FOR KIRIL) (2002)
• 1.74 (FILM-PERFORMANCE) A ROOM TO SWING A CAT, BROOKLYN (1986)
• 1.73 (FILM-PERFORMANCE) SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL (1985)
• 1.72 (FILM-PERFORMANCE) BELGRADE ALTERNATIVE (1984)
• UNTITLED (A.K.A. THE BLACK LEADER FILM) (1982)
• THE WIRE (1981)
• PATHS OF GLORY (1981)
• BEAUTIFUL BLUE DANUBE (1981)

SHORT FORMS / NARRATIVE FILMS AND SPEC SPOTS

• THURSDAY (2013)
• SOHO (1991)
• POSSESSION (7-MIN FEATURE PILOT) (1990)
• BLACK & LEATHER 1 (1990)
• BLACK & LEATHER 2 (1990)
• BROOKLYN BRIDGE (1990)
• WMFM (1990)
• TOUGH GRANNY (1985)
• DIVINE COMEDY (1982)
• THE TENANT (1981)
• WEDNESDAY MORNING AT FIVE O’CLOCK AS THE DAY BEGINS (1980)
• WORKING CLASS GOES TO HEAVEN (1980)
• CHRISTIANITY 101 (DOCUMENTARY) (1980)
• UNTITLED (1980)
• UNTITLED (A.K.A. PASSPORT) (1980)
• BREAKFAST (BASED ON A POEM BY JACQUES PREVERT; CO-DIRECTED WITH ALEKSANDAR GRCEV) (1978)
• UNTITLED (A.K.A. JOKE) (1978)

MUSIC VIDEOS AND SPOTS

• DALI KJE DOJDE NA RANDEVU – KATICA GJAKONOVSKA, 2022 (KAYMAK OST)
• RED SAFARI – KIRIL DZAJKOVSKI, 2019 (WILLOW OST)
• DAWN – KIRIL DZAJKOVSKI, 2019 (WILLOW OST)
• LJUBOV – KRSTE RODZEVSKI, 2019 (WILLOW OST)
• BUDDIES – GREEN CAR (SKOPSKO BEER, PIVARA SKOPJE/HEINEKEN/COCA COLA), 2015
• BUDDIES – FILIP (SKOPSKO BEER, PIVARA SKOPJE/HEINEKEN/COCA COLA), 2015
• BUDDIES – RACE (SKOPSKO BEER, PIVARA SKOPJE/HEINEKEN/COCA COLA), 2015
• MOTHERS TRAILER, 2010
• MACEDONIA TIMELESS (MOUNTAIN SPORTS: 60), 2009
• MACEDONIA TIMELESS (ARCHAEOLOGY: 30), 2008
• MACEDONIA TIMELESS (TEMPLES: 30), 2008
• MACEDONIA TIMELESS (PREMIERE SPOT: 60), 2008
• JUNGLE SHADOWS, 2007
• DUST TRAILER, 2001
• PRIMITIVE SCIENCE (FOR KIRIL), 2001
• THE DEAD ARE WAITING (FOR KIRIL), 2001
• BROTHEL TANGO (FOR KIRIL), 2001
• TRADITION (:60 SPOT), 1999
• BEFORE THE RAIN TRAILER, 1995
• THIS GENERATION (FOR ROACHFORD), 1994
• KNOW YOUR BOOTS (SPOT), 1993
• KNOW YOUR BOOTS (POINT-OF-PURCHASE), 1993
• VIVE MA LIBERTE (FOR ARNO), 1993
• TENNESSEE (FOR ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT), 1992
• ONE TO GROW ON (FOR UMC’S), 1992
• FOREVER AND EVER (FOR ROBYN SPRINGER), 1992
• A DIRTY COP NAMED HARRY (FOR HARD KNOX), 1992
• DO YOU WANT IT RIGHT NOW (FOR DEGREES OF MOTION), 1992
• SHINE ON (FOR DEGREES OF MOTION), 1992
• FAKIN THE FUNK (FOR MAIN SOURCE) (FROM THE SOUNDTRACK OF THE FILM WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP), 1992
• JUST MY IMAGINATION (FOR 2 TOO MANY), 1992
• JUST A LITTLE LOVE (FOR AURRA), 1992
• I DON’T MIND (FOR BIG BUB), 1992
• NEVER SAW A MIRACLE (FOR CURTIS STIGERS), 1992
• WIDOWMAKER (FOR WIDOWMAKER), 1992
• SIMILAK CHILD (FOR BLACK SHEEP), 1992
• YOU AIN’T THINKING ABOUT ME (FOR SONIA DADA), 1992
• BABY I BELIEVE IN YOU (FOR GEORGE LAMOND), 1992
• YOU’RE TELLING ME STORIES (FOR BIG BUB), 1992
• FEVER (FOR WAY 2 GO), 1991
• KID GET HYPED (FOR DESKEE), 1991
• HEAVEN KNOWS (FOR FRANCESCA BEGHE), 1991
• TITLE UNKNOWN (FOR FRANCESCA BEGHE), 1991
• IF YOU’RE SERIOUS (FOR RIFF), 1991
• TITLE SEQUENCE (FOR APOLLO THEATER TV SHOW), 1991
• CASSETTE (SPOT), 1991
• YOU DON’T NEED THIS (SPEC SPOT FOR AMTRAK), 1990
• A WORD TO MOTHER (FOR BANJI), 1990
• UNDERCOVER (FOR PARTNERS IN KRYME), 1990
• MACY’S CHRISTMAS (PROMOTIONAL VIDEO), 1986
• HOT DAY IN MEXICO (FOR BASTION), 1985
• DAMAR (FOR LEB I SOL), 1983
• TALASNA DUZINA (FOR LEB I SOL), 1983
• ABER DOJDE, DONKE (FOR LEB I SOL), 1983

AS DIRECTOR FOR HIRE

• THE WIRE (HBO), 2002
• HEAVEN (KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI’S), 1999 (DEVELOPMENT ONLY)
• FROM POTTER’S FIELD (PATRICIA CORNWELL’S), 1997 (DEVELOPMENT ONLY)
• AN ALAN SMITHEE FILM (A.K.A. BURN, HOLLYWOOD, BURN), 1997 (DEVELOPMENT ONLY)
• CASUALTIES OF WAR (A.K.A. THREE KINGS), 1996 (DEVELOPMENT ONLY)
• PERFECT MURDER (A.K.A. DIAL M FOR MURDER), 1996 (DEVELOPMENT ONLY)
• CUT TIME (DOCUMENTARY), 1990 (PRE-PRODUCTION AND PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY ONLY)

AWARDS

ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

• SPECIAL AWARD, I-FEST 2023, ITALY
• AWARD FOR FILM ACHIEVEMENT BANEFF 2023, STOCKHOLM
• AWARD FOR FILM ACHIEVEMENT FIRST FRAME IFF 2023, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
• ZIVOJIN PAVLOVIC FOR CONTRIBUTION TO FILM ART, LESKOVAC, 2022
• SPECIAL AWARD FOR CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA , SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, 2020
• EASTERN STAR AWARD, TRIESTE FILM FESTIVAL, 2019
• GOLDEN CAMERA 300 FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO WORLD CINEMA, MANAKI BROTHERS FILM FESTIVAL,
  BITOLA, MACEDONIA, 2017
• CAREER AWARD, INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL FANTASPORTO, PORTO, 2016
• UMD MACEDONIAN HERITAGE PUBLIC SERVICE AWARD, 2015
• GREAT STAR OF MACEDONIAN CINEMA AWARD, MACEDONIAN SOCIETY OF FILM PROFESSIONALS, 2014
• HONORARY DOCTORATE, VGIK, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, 2013
• NATIONAL ARTIST (AWARDED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA), 2012
• CENTRAL EUROPEAN INITIATIVE, TRIESTE, 2012
• AMBASSADOR OF CULTURE OF THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA (REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA), 2007
• MOTHER THERESA AWARD FOR HUMANITARIAN WORK, MOTHER THERESA FOUNDATION, 2002
• OCTOBER 11 FOR MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT (HIGHEST PEACETIME AWARD, REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA), 1995

AWARDS FOR FEATURE FILMS – BEFORE THE RAIN

• SILVER CONDOR, 1997, ARGENTINEAN CRITICS ASSOCIATION, BEST FOREIGN FILM
• INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARD, 1996: BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
• MONS FESTIVAL, BELGIUM, 1995: CHARLOT D’OR
• ST PETERSBURG FESTIVAL OF FESTIVALS, 1995: GRAND PRIX
• BURGOS FESTIVAL, SPAIN, 1995: WINNER OF THE SINGLE FESTIVAL PRIZE
• GORIZIA FESTIVAL OF SCREENPLAY, ITALY, 1995: BEST SCREENPLAY
• FILM FORUM, BRATISLAVA, SLOVAKIA, 1995: BEST FILM
• PANTELERIA, ITALY, 1995: UNESCO PRIZE
• WARSAW FILM FEST, 1995: AUDIENCE AWARD
• AUSTRIA, 1995: CATHOLIC FILM COMMISSION PRIZE
• DAVID DI DONATELLO SPECIAL AWARD TO A NON-ITALIAN FILM, ITALY, 1995
• SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE, 1995: GOLDEN BUG FOR BEST FOREIGN FILM
• FILM CRITICS ASSOCIATION OF TURKEY 1995: BEST FOREIGN FILM
• MEDITERRANEAN PRIZE FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE, 1995
• ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATION, 1995: BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
• VENICE FILM FESTIVAL, 1994: GOLDEN LION FOR BEST FILM
• VENICE, 1994: FIPRESCI PRIZE (INTERNATIONAL CRITICS PRIZE)
• VENICE, 1994: THE UNICEF PRIZE 1994
• VENICE, 1994: PREMIO CINEMAVENIRE (YOUNG VIEWERS’ PRIZE)
• VENICE, 1994: AUDIENCE PRIZE
• VENICE, 1994: ROLLING VENICE AWARD FROM THE CITY OF VENICE
• VENICE, 1994: LEONCINO D’ORO, AWARDED BY THE ITALIAN STUDENTS
• VENICE, 1994: INTERNATIONAL CATHOLIC ORGANIZATION FOR THE CINEMA
• VENICE, 1994: KODAK AWARD FOR BEST FIRST FEATURE
• VENICE, 1994: FRANCESCO PASINETI SYNDICATE AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR, RADE SERBEDZIJA
• SAO PAOLO FESTIVAL, 1994: AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FILM
• PUERTO RICO FESTIVAL, 1994: JURY AWARD FOR BEST FILM
• PUERTO RICO FESTIVAL, 1994: AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FILM
• PUERTO RICO FESTIVAL, 1994: BEST DIRECTOR
• PUERTO RICO FESTIVAL, 1994: BEST FIRST FILM
• STOCKHOLM FESTIVAL, 1994: BEST DEBUT FILM

AWARDS FOR FEATURE FILMS – DUST

• GOLDEN REEL AWARD NOMINATION (BEST SOUND EDITING), 2002

AWARDS FOR FEATURE FILMS – SHADOWS

• MACEDONIAN ACADEMY AWARD SUBMISSION, 2008: BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
• SYRACUSE FILM FESTIVAL, 2008: BEST ACTRESS NOMINATION, VESNA STANOJEVSKA
• PARK CITY FILM MUSIC FESTIVAL, 2008: GOLD MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT,
• RYAN SHORE, COMPOSER
• GOLDEN LADYBUG, 2008: BEST ACTRESS, VESNA STANOJEVSKA

AWARDS FOR FEATURE FILMS – MOTHERS

• EUROPEAN FILM COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION – 24TH EFA FILM AWARDS INVITATION, 2011
• CINEMA CITY FESTIVAL: FEDEORA (FEDERATION OF FILM CRITICS OF EUROPE AND THE MEDITERRANEAN), 2011
• FEST: CRITICS AWARD FOR BEST FEST FILM – NEBOJSA DJUKELIC AWARD, 2011
• FEST: SPECIAL JURY PRIZE IN THE SELECTION EUROPE OUT OF EUROPE, 2011
• MTV ADRIA MOVIE AWARDS: BEST MOVIE NOMINATION, 2011
• MACEDONIAN ACADEMY AWARD SUBMISSION: BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM, 2010

AWARDS FOR FEATURE FILMS – BIKINI MOON

• FANTASPORTO – OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: SPECIAL JURY AWARD, 2018

AWARDS FOR FEATURE FILMS – WILLOW

• NORTH MACEDONIA’S OFFICIAL OSCARS ENTRY, BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM, 2020
• EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY FEATURE FILM SELECTION FOR THE 33RD EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS, 2020
• FANTASPORTO – DIRECTORS WEEK BEST FILM AWARD (MANOEL DE OLIVEIRA AWARD), 2020
• CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL, CALIFORNIA – BEST NARRATIVE FEATURE FILM: DRAMA, 2020
• RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL, LONDON, UK – BEST DIRECTOR, 2020
• MOSTRA DE VALENCIA, SPAIN – SILVER PALM, 2020
• WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL – BEST FEATURE FILM, 2020
• FINALIST FOR EUROPEAN FILM COMMISSIONS NETWORK LOCATION AWARD, 2020
• STONY BROOK FILM FESTIVAL, NEW YORK, USA – JURY AWARD FOR BEST FEATURE, 2021
• ATHENS MARATHON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, ATHENS, GREECE – BEST FEATURE, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FOR NATALIJA TEODOSIEVA, HONORABLE MENTION FOR BEST DIRECTOR, BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY, BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS FOR SARA KLIMOSKA AND PEOPLE’S CHOICE FOR BEST FEATURE, 2021
• ACROSS THE GLOBE FILM FESTIVAL – BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE: NATALIJA TEODOSIEVA, 2021

AWARDS FOR FEATURE FILMS – KAYMAK

• BEST FEATURE DRAMA, CINEQUEST FILM FESTIVAL 2023
• DIRECTOR’S WEEK JURY’S SPECIAL AWARD, FANTASPORTO 2023
• FEDEORA SPECIAL MENTION, MONTENEGRO FILM FESTIVAL 2023
• BOER AWARD FOR THE BEST ACTRESS FOR SARA KLIMOSKA, SOMBOR FILM FESTIVAL 2023
• AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, TIRANA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023
• GRAND PRIX BEST FILM IN SEARCHING COMPETITION PROGRAM, FIRST FRAME IFF 2023
• BEST FILM, I-FEST PALERMO 2023

AWARDS FOR SHORT FORMS

AWARDS FOR SHORT FORMS – THE END OF TIME

• ASPEN SHORTSFEST: ELLEN AWARD, 2017
• JIHLAVA INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL: SPECIAL MENTION, 2017
• BERLIN EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL: BEST NON NARRATIVE FILM, OFFICIAL COMPETITION, 2017
• BELGRADE ALTERNATIVE FILM/VIDEO: SPECIAL AWARD, OFFICIAL COMPETITION, 2017
• SANGIÒ VERONA VIDEO FESTIVAL; 2018: BEST EDITING, OFFICIAL COMPETITION
• TIRANA FILM FESTIVAL: BEST ART VIDEO AND EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 2018
• WANDERING REEL TRAVELING FILM FESTIVAL: CURATOR’S CHOICE, 2018

AWARDS FOR SHORT FORMS – THURSDAY

• USA FILM FESTIVAL: FESTIVAL AWARD IN NATIONAL COMPETITION, 2014

AWARDS FOR SHORT FORMS – MACEDONIA TIMELESS

• BEST COMMERCIAL SPOT, INTERNATIONAL TOURFILM FESTIVAL, PŁOCK, POLAND, 2009
• BLUE DANUBE AWARD FOR BEST CULTURAL TOURIST FILM, SILAFEST, 2009
• INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF TOURIST AND ECOLOGY FILMS, SERBIA, 2009
• MOBIUS AWARD, 1ST PLACE, TELEVISION, RECREATION – ENTERTAINMENT CATEGORY, 2010

AWARDS FOR SHORT FORMS – TENNESSEE

• ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE: ONE OF 100 BEST VIDEOS EVER, 1994
• THE VILLAGE VOICE: BEST VIDEO – RUNNER-UP, 1993
• PLATINUM RECORD, 1993
• MTV: BEST VIDEO – RAP, 1992
• BILLBOARD: BEST VIDEO: NEW POP/ROCK ACT, 1992

AWARDS FOR SHORT FORMS – 1.72

• BELGRADE ALTERNATIVE: BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM, 1985

ART

EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCE, ETC.

• THERE (EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS), 2020
• SHANGHAI: DREAMING A WU YAN POEM (EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS), 2017
• THURSDAY
  Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea, 2016
• FIVE DROPS OF DREAM (EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PENTAPTYCHS)
  Mediterranean Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey, 2013
  Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 2013
  Multimedia Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2013
  Gliptoteka, Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012
  Miyako Yoshinaga Art Prospects, New York, 2012
  National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012
  Kulturni Centar Beograda, Serbia, 2012
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, 2011
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2011
• BRAZIL: A PHOTOGRAPH FOR THE FUTURE (A PHOTOGRAPH IN A GROUP SHOW)
  Antonia Jannone Gallery, Milan, 2010
• BITOLA (ARTWORK IN A RETROSPECTIVE), 2007
• A PAGE OUT OF ORDER: M (DANCE BY YOSHIKO CHUMA, INCORPORATING A DISTILLATION OF BEFORE THE RAIN)
  Dance Theater Workshop, 2006
  La Mama, 2006
  Centrul National al Dansului, Romania, 2006
  Japan, 2006
  Lokomotiva, Macedonia, 2006
  Mabou Mines, 2005
  Bard College, 2005
• CONCEPTUAL DISCOURSE IN MACEDONIA (EIGHT ARTWORKS IN A RETROSPECTIVE)
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia, 2003
  STREET (EXHIBITION OF PHOTOGRAPHS)
  Emzin Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2006
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Santo Domingo, 2003
  Apollonia Space, Strasbourg, France, 2001
  Thessalonica, Greece, 2001
  Palermo, Italy, 2000
  Naples, Italy, 2000
  Zagreb, Croatia, 2000
  Skulpturen Hus, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonia, 1999
• SCCA GROUP SHOW (PHOTOGRAPHS IN A GROUP SHOW)
  Poland, 2001
  Bulgaria, 2000
  Macedonia, 2000
• 1.74, A ROOM TO SWING A CAT, BROOKLYN, 1986
• 1.73, SPLIT FILM FESTIVAL, 1985
• 1.72, BELGRADE ALTERNATIVE, 1984
• 1AM (APPEARANCE ART), SKOPJE, MACEDONIA, 1984
• 1AM (APPEARANCE ART), SKOPJE, MACEDONIA, 1983

PUBLISHED ART

• PICTURES, WORDS AND LIES, (BOOK OF TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS), MAGOR, MACEDONIA, 2015
• BETWEEN THE LINES (PHOTOGRAPHS IN A PERIODICAL) VREME, BELGRADE, 2013
• FIVE DROPS OF DREAM (BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHIC PENTAPTYCHS, ACCOMPANYING AN EXHIBITION,
  MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MACEDONIA), 2011
• VARIOUS ARTISTS (ALBUM COVER DESIGN), 2007
• THE BASTION SESSIONS, (ALBUM COVER DESIGN), 2005
• STREET (BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS, ACCOMPANYING AN EXHIBITION, SANTO DOMINGO), 2003
• IDEA-THEQUE (WORKS IN BOOK OF DOCUMENTS ON CONCEPTUAL DISCOURSE), 2003
• RELIGION AND SEX, KIRIL (ALBUM COVER DESIGN AND PHOTO), 2000
• EUROPE AND THE OTHER, EUROPE AS THE OTHER, BO STRATH (FRONT COVER PHOTO), 2000
• STREET (BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS, ACCOMPANYING AN EXHIBITION,
  MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, MACEDONIA), 1999

WRITINGS

FICTION

• THE GHOST OF MY MOTHER (SHORT BOOK OF FICTION)
  IDENTITIES, 2000
  TRI, 2000
  KULTUREN ZIVOT, 1997
  MY GRANDFATHER (SHORT STORY),
  NEW AMERICAN WRITING, 2005
  IDENTITIES, 2002
  FLIGHT (SHORT STORY), NEW AMERICAN WRITING, 2002
  MARCUS’ PORTRAIT (SHORT STORY), NEW AMERICAN WRITING, 2002
  WISHES (SHORT STORY),
  NEW AMERICAN WRITING, 1999
  FORUM, 1998
• TWELVE YEARS AGO (SHORT STORY),
  CAESARIAN CUT (ANTHOLOGY), 2001
  NEW AMERICAN WRITING, 1998
  MARGINA, 1998
  DU-A-A (CROATIA), 1986
• CEILING (FILM TREATMENT), NOVA MAKEDONIJA, 1998
• ALLDAY (SHORT STORY) EPICUREAN GARDEN, FIRST PRIZE, 1977
• LONELINESS (SHORT STORY), SKOPJE, SECOND PRIZE, 1976

ESSAYS, OPINION PIECES, BOOK INTRODUCTIONS, ARTICLES, ETC.

• MANCHEVSKI: FIVE ESSAYS, PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MACEDONIA, 2023
• GREAT EXPECTATIONS: WHEN A FILM IS NOT MACEDONIAN ENOUGH, CINEUROPA, 2022
• PICTURES, WORDS AND LIES, MAGOR, 2015
• SENSUALITY AND SENSE IN THE CINEMA – INTERDEPENDENCE OF PHYSICALITY AND TEXTUALITY OF
  FILM RECEPTION, (A CHAPTER IN A BOOK PUBLISHED BY UNIVERSITÄT BIELEFELD), 2015
• WHY I LIKE WRITING AND HATE DIRECTING: NOTES OF A RECOVERING WRITER-DIRECTOR, JOURNAL OF
  SCREENWRITING, VOL. 6, NUMBER 3, 2015
• WHY I LIKE WRITING AND HATE DIRECTING: NOTES OF A RECOVERING WRITER-DIRECTOR,
  7TH SCREENWRITING RESEARCH NETWORK INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, SCREENWRITING & DIRECTING
  AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA, FILM UNIVERSITY BABELSBERG, POTSDAM, 2014
• TRUTH AND FICTION: NOTES ON (EXCEPTIONAL) FAITH IN ART, [BOOK] PUNCTUM BOOKS, BROOKLYN, 2012
• TRUTH AND FICTION, ART AND FAITH, PONTIFICAL LATERAN UNIVERSITY, VATICAN,
  FILM AND FAITH CONFERENCE, 2011
• ART, VIOLENCE + SOCIETY: A FEW NOTES (TONE AND FUNCTION: ART AND RITUAL), INTERPRETATIONS,
  MACEDONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES, 2007
• LIVING WITH SHADOWS, MOVING PICTURES, 2007
• INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK BIOGRAPHIES OF GOCE DELCEV AND PERE TOSEV, BY GJORCE PETROV, 2003
• INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLISHED EDITION OF THE SCREENPLAY FOR BEFORE THE RAIN, 2002
• INTRODUCTION TO THE PUBLISHED EDITION OF THE SCREENPLAY FOR DUST, 2001
• GROUND ZERO [ESSAY], VEST, MACEDONIA, 2001
• RAINMAKING AND PERSONAL TRUTH, RETHINKING HISTORY, 1999
• TOWARDS TOTAL ART [ESSAY], 1985; RAZGLEDI 1995; NOVA MAKEDONIJA, 1997
• THE AMERICAN AVANT-GARDE CINEMA [ESSAY], SINEAST, 1984
• HOLLYWOOD HORROR OF THE 70’S [ESSAY], SINEAST, 1984
• ESSAYS AND OPINION PIECES IN: LA REPUBBLICA, CORRIERE DELLA SERA, RETHINKING HISTORY, DNEVNIK, THE GUARDIAN, SEUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, PRAVDA, DE STANDAARD, ETC. 1997-2000
• OVER 200 MAGAZINE ARTICLES, INCLUDING CRITICISM AND CINEMA STUDIES, PUBLISHED IN FOURTEEN PERIODICALS IN YUGOSLAVIA. 1975 – 1986

TRANSLATIONS

• BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN BY ANNIE PROULX, 1999

FILM SHOWINGS

MANCHEVSKI’S FEATURE FILMS BEFORE THE RAIN, DUST, SHADOWS, MOTHERS, BIKINI MOON, WILLOW AND KAYMAK AND THE SHORTS THURSDAY AND THE END OF TIME AND SEVERAL MUSIC VIDEOS (INCLUDING TENNESSEE), AS WELL AS THE EPISODE OF HBO’S THE WIRE HE DIRECTED HAVE SCREENED GLOBALLY.
BEFORE THE RAIN, DUST, SHADOWS, MOTHERS, BIKINI MOON, WILLOW AND KAYMAK, AS WELL AS THURSDAY AND THE END OF TIME, HAVE SCREENED AT NUMEROUS FESTIVALS
BEFORE THE RAIN, DUST, SHADOWS AND MOTHERS RECEIVED WIDE THEATRICAL DISTRIBUTION IN MORE THAN 50 COUNTRIES.
THE LENGTH AND THE SCOPE OF THE THEATRICAL RUN WAS VARIED, WITH SOME TERRITORIES, SUCH AS SPAIN, TURKEY, ARGENTINA AND ITALY SHOWING BEFORE THE RAIN IN THE FIRST-RUN THEATERS FOR SEVERAL
MONTHS; IN SWEDEN, THE FILM PLAYED IN FIRST-RUN THEATERS FOR A YEAR; IN THE U.S. IT DID PLAY VENUES WHERE RELATIVELY FEW FOREIGN FILMS PLAY, SUCH AS KANSAS CITY.
THE FILMS HAVE WIDE VIDEO DISTRIBUTION INTERNATIONALLY. SINCE IT WAS INITIALLY RELEASED BEFORE DVD WAS IN WIDE USE, BEFORE THE RAIN IS RECENTLY BEING RE-ISSUED AS A DVD IN A NUMBER OF TERRITORIES: BRAZIL, TURKEY, UK, ITALY, U.S. (BY THE CRITERION COLLECTION IN 2008), ETC.
AFTER THE THEATRICAL RUN, THE FILMS AIRED REPEATEDLY ON PAY-PER-VIEW AND CABLE CHANNELS, AND ON COMMERCIAL AND PUBLIC TV. THEY ARE ALSO FREQUENTLY SHOWN IN CINEMATHEQUE AND COLLEGE SETTINGS AND AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING.

Festivals

(Partial Listing)

Ankara (1995), Aruba (2011), Aspen (2017), Athens (2021), Austria (2004), Balkan Boom, Romania (2004), Beijing (2020), Belgrade (2006), Belgrade shorts (1985), Berlin (2011), Big Muddy Film Festival (1995), Bratislava (1995 and 2002) Brno (2011), Budapest (1994), Burgos (1995), Cairo (1995), Cleveland (2011), Cameraimage, Lodz, Poland (1994 and 2007), Cinequest (2020, 2023), Classico, Italy (2016), Cluj, Romania (2011), Copenhagen (2004, 2008), Dinard (1994 and 2001), Distat Terra Festival in Río Negro, Patagonia, Argentina (2022), East by Southeast, Danish Film Institute (2012), Earth Films Festival in Turkey (2003) FEST Belgrade (2002, 2008, 2011, 2020 and 2023), Festival “Cultural Mondialization,” Monumenta, Tours, France (2007), Fort Lauderdale, USA (2011), Freedom Film Festival (American Cinema Foundation) (2006), Goa, India (2011), Golden Horse, Taipei (2001, 2007, 2019, 2022), Gorizia (1995) Gothenborg (1995), Guadalajara (2008), Herceg Novi (2023), Hof (1994), Hong Kong (1995 and 2002), International Film Festival of India (2006), Izmir (2012, 2023), Istanbul (1994, 2008, 2011 and 2019), Jerusalem (1995), Ji.hlava (2018), Karlovy Vary (1995), Kerala (2011), Kiev (1995 and 2010), Las Palmas De Gran Canaria (2011), Lato Film Festival, Kazimierz Dolny (2002), Leskovac (2011, 2020 and 2022), Ljubljana (1994), Locarno (2015), Madeira, Portugal (2011), Madrid Cine Experimental (2011), Malmoe (1995), Manaki Brothers, Bitola (1994 and 2010), Mexico (1995), Miami (1995), Minsk (2011), Mons, Belgium (1995), Moscow (2011), Aye Aye Film Festival, France (2011), Neuchatel Fantastic Film Festival, Novi Sad (2011), Motovun (2002), Night Festival Copenhagen (1995), Ourém, Portugal (2011), Palm Springs (1995, 2007), Panteleria (1995), Park City (2008), Podgorica (2002), Portland (1995), Puerto Rico (1994), Pula (2011), Purbeck Film Festival, UK (2011), Riga (2002), San Sebastian (Retrospective) (2001), Santa Barbara (1994, 2008), SanGiò Verona Video Festival (2018), Sao Paulo (1994, 2002, 2007 and 2010), Sarajevo (1995, 2011, 2020 and 2023), Shanghai (1995 and 2018), Singapore (2002, 2008), Sofia (1997, 2002, 2007, 2011, 2018, 2021 and 2023), South Yara, Australia (2002), St. Petersburg (1995), Speaking across the Frame: Language and Culture in European Cinema (Univ of Toronto), 2006, Spring Film Festival (Australia and New Zealand), 2012 Stockholm (1994), Struga (2014), Sundance (1995), Syracuse Film Fest (2005, 2008 and 2011), Tallinn (2019), Tetovo (2014), Thessaloniki (1995 and 2001), Tirana (1998, 2020 and 2023), Tokyo (1995, 2001 and 2022), Toronto (1994, 2001, 2007 and 2010), Trieste (1994, 2012), United Nations International Film Festival (2004), University of Michigan (2002), Valencia (2020), Valladolid (1994), Varna (1995, 2011), Venice (1994 Winner, and 2001 Opening Night Film, 2013), Vienna (1994, 2014), Vilnius (2011), Virton (Belgium) (1995), Visionaria (2012), Vitebsk, Belarus (1995), Wellington (2020)

Retrospectives and Conferences

Retrospectives of Manchevski’s Work

• i-Fest Calabria, Italy, 2023
• Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2023
• Shanghai Film Festival, 2017
• Festival Classico, Canelli, Italy, 2016
• Fantasporto Festival, Oporto, Portugal, 2016
• Macedonian Film Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2015
• Shoot, cousin, shoot!, Skopje, Macedonia, 2015
• Multimedia Museum, Moscow, Russia, 2013
• Mediterranean Film Festival, Izmir, Turkey, 2013
• Hanoi Cinematheque, Vietnam, 2012
• Dom na kinoto, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012
• Kulturni Centar, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2012
• Cineteca di Bologna, Italy, 2011
• De Balie Cultural Center, Cinema and Media Department, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2005
• Sundance Channel, USA, 2005
• Akademski Kino Klub, Belgrade, Serbia, 2005
• San Sebastian, Spain, 2001
• Cineteca di Bologna, Italy, 1996

Conferences about Manchevski’s Films

• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Human rights in Milcho Manchevski’s work), 2015
• Brown University (part of the conference Balkan Literatures of Dissent), 2007
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Netherlands, the Hague (round table Dust and the Western Perceptions of Balkan Realities), 2005
• Leipzig University (conference The Film Dust and (Re-)Inventing Collective Identities), 2004
• European University Institute, Florence, Italy (conference: “One Film – Many Histories: An Inquiry into the Film Before the Rain”), 1999

Lectures, Master Classes and Conversations,
Conference Screenings of Manchevski’s Films (Selection)

• Academy-Award Nominee panel, 1995
• Akademski Kino Klub, Belgrade
• Annual Convention of the Modern Languages Association, Philadelphia, 2004
  Arizona State University, 2023
• Arts University College at Bournemouth, The, 2012
• Aruba International Film Festival, In Conversation with Milcho Manchevski, 2011
• Baltic Film and Media School
• Bard College, NY
  Bredius Foundation, Society of Byzantium Studies, Hernen, Netherlands, 2006
• Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies (Independence: Art and Activism, 2003, and Art and Violence, 2006)
• Cambridge University, UK
• Canadian Macedonian Historical Society, Toronto Carleton University in Ottawa
• Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
• Catholic University of America, The Columbia University,
  Conference on Art and Conflict Resolution in Rhodes, Greece, 2005
• Dallas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology Arts Committee (The Psychology of Extremism)
  Earth Films Festival in Turkey, 2003,
  East-West: East European (Self) Representation vis-à-vis Western Europe and the Liminal
• Lens of East European intellectuals living abroad
• Elon College
• Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television EICTV, Havana, Cuba, 2016
• European Cinema Research Forum 2005, Leeds, UK
• FilmZeit, conference on film time at Saarlandes University under the motto Time Never Dies, screening/discussing Before the Rain, 2015
• Fakultet dramskih umetnosti, Belgrade
• Fetival Classico, Canelli, Italy, 2016 Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf, Germany
  First World Conference of Screenwriters, Athens, Greece, 2009
• Utrikespolitiska Föreningen (Association of Foreign Affairs), Lund University, Sweden Frontières et identités territoriales et imaginaires de l’antiquité aux temps modernes Goa Film Festival, 2011
• Goethe House: Balkan Boom Film Festival, Romania, 2004
• Gorges of Balkans, The, Conference, Kunsthalle Fridericianum Kassel Harvard Film Archive (Politics and Society)
• Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen München, Germany
• Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen Konrad Wolf, Babelsberg, Germany Jena University, Germany
• La journée du CdB : rencontres interbalkaniques, Centre Marius Sidobre, France Klub na novinari, Macedonia
• Kunsthalle Fridericianum in Kassel, Art Conference
• Kulturni Centar, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2012 Let’s Cee Film Festival, Vienna, 2014
• Lilian Vernon Center for International Affairs at NYU (Politics and Art in Cinema)
• London Film School, Industry Practice Class Macedonian Cultural Center in NY
• Mahidol University International College, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010 Mainz University, Germany
• Mclaine Program for Eastern European Leaders at International House Midwest Slavic Conference, Ohio State University, 2007
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Netherlands
  (Dust and the Western Perceptions of Balkan Realities) Minsk University, Institute of Journalism, Belarus, 2011 Moynihan Institute for European Studies at Syracuse University Museum of Modern Art, Oklahoma
• National Arts Club, New York
• National Tsing Hua University in Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2010
• National Academy of Theater and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2012 Oklahoma (Symposium on War, Reconstruction and Relief) Oxford Brookes University, 2015
• Palic Festival of European Film
  (Conference How The War Started on My Balkan Peninsula), 2011 Salerno, Italy (Poetry and Cinema)
  Sarai-Waag Workshop at Sarai-CSDS, New Delhi, India, 2003 (Conference Crisis/Media: Uncertain States of the Reportage)
• Sarajevo Festival presentation and Q&A
• Southern Illinois University in Carbondale Sundance Festival presentation and Q&A Syracuse Film Festival
• Tokyo Festival presentation and Q&A Torino Book Fair panel
• Toronto Festival presentation and Q&A (for Before the Rain, Dust and Shadows)
• Trieste Film Festival, 2012 UNESCO, 2007
• Union College (“Politics and Cinema”)
• United Nations International Film Festival, 2004, Conference on Peace and the Arts
• Universität Bielefeld, Sensuality and sense in the cinema – Interdependence of Physicality and Textuality of Film Reception, 2015
• University of Central Florida (Treatment of Time in Before the Rain and Dust) University of Central Florida Honors Club
• University of Washington, Seattle University of Texas in Austin University of Tehran
  University of Oklahoma
• University of Michigan, Center for European Studies, 2007 University of Chicago,
  University of Tokyo
• Univerzitet Sv. Kiril i Metodij, Macedonia (College of Philosophy; also College of Ethnology) Venice Festival (CinemAvvenire award at the Venice Film Festival established in 1999 and named after the mottoof
• Before the Rain: “The Circle Is not Round”) Venice Festival presentation and Q&A
• Venice Festival conference (“An Encounter between European and American Filmmakers”)
• Vernon Center for Global Affairs at NYU VGIK, Moscow
• Week of Macedonian Culture in Austria Week of Macedonian Culture in France Week of Macedonian Culture in Croatia Week of Macedonian Culture in Portugal Week of Macedonian Culture in Denmark Week of Macedonian Culture in Romania
• World Conference on Inter-Religious and Inter-Civilization Dialogue, Ohrid, 2007 Yale University conference on Balkan Cinema
• Yale University Film Studies Program Yale, Calhoun Master’s House, Master Tea

Essays and Critical Writings about Manchevski’s Work (Selection)

• Abadzieva, Sonia, Conceptual Practices in the Art Narratives of Milcho Manchevski
• Aleksic, Tatjana, Rutgers University, A Gaze into the Balkans’ Underbelly: The Films of Angelopoulos, Kusturica, and Manchevski
• Angelovska, Prof. Despina (Skopje/Filmtheorie), De(constructing) Balkanism in the film Dust by Milcho Manchevski
• Bacholle, Michele, Pushing the Limits of Autobiography: Schizophrenia in the Works of Farida Belghoul, Agota Kristof and Milcho Manchevski
• Bojić, Katarzyna, Zanim spadnie deszcz – Przypowieść o oczyszczeniu, Art Papier
• Bovens, Luc, Moral Luck, Photojournalism, and Pornography, The Journal of Value Inquiry
• Brown, S. Keith, Macedonian Culture and Its Audiences: An Analysis of Before the Rain
• Bubits, Sabine, Kriegsfilm am Balkan: Milcho Manchevskis “Before the Rain” mit dem Aspekt des “Selbstexotismus” (book)
• Burgoyne, Robert, Ethnic Nationalism and Globalization
• Canby, Vincent, The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, (book)
• Christie, Ian, Landscape and Location: Reading Filmic Space Historically
• Christie, Ian, Never-Ending Story
• Cooper, Patricia, Writing the Short Film, Second Edition (book)
• Coover, Roderick, History in Dust: An Interview with Milcho Manchevski, Film Quarterly, 2005
• Cowgill, Linda J., Writing Short Films: Structure and Content for Screenwriters, Second edition 2005
• Crnkovic, Gordana P., Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain and the Ethics of Listening
• Crnković, Gordana P., Mothers of Invention: Milcho Manchevski’s Delightful Icons, Kino Kultura 2015
• Curtis, Matthew, Nature, Violence, and Sacrifice in Before the Rain: Milcho Manchevski’s 1995 Film
• Dancyger, Ken, The Technique of Film and Video Editing: History, Theory, and Practice (book)
• Dancyger, Ken, Global Scriptwriting (book)
• di Oliveira, Joao Vicente Ganzarolli, Before The Rain – An Aesthetics Of Paradox
• Dimitrijevich, Prof. Andrija, (Belgrad/Filmtheorie), The Kinesthetic of Dust – The End of Drama
• Ďurovičová, Natasa, Dust and Before the Rain in “World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives” (book)
• Easton, Sean, The Mote and the Storm: Milcho Manchevski’s ‘Dust’ (2001) and the Coexistence
  of Centuries, 2015
• Ebert, Roger andBerardinelli, James, Reel Views: The Ultimate Guide to the Best 1,000 Modern Movies on DVD and Video (book)
• Edualter-Drac Màgic, Antes de la lluvia: Análisis del largometraje “Antes de la lluvia” de
  Milcho Manchevski para ser utilizado como material didáctico en el aula
• Filipcevic, Vojislava, Historical Narrative and The East-West Leitmotif in Milcho Manchevski’s Before The Rain and Dust, Film Criticism, winter 2005
• Filipcevic, Vojislava, “East”/”West” Encounters in the Balkan Cinema: Dichotomies of Loss in Milcho Manchevski’s Before The Rain and Dust
• Friedman, Victor A. Fable as History: The Macedonian Truth
• Goulding, Daniel J., Liberated Cinema: The Yugoslav Experience, 1945-2001 (book)
• Horton, Andrew, Cinema across the Oceans: an Interview with Milcho Manchevski, Cineaste
• Horton, Andrew, Milcho Manchevski’s “Mothers”
• Höpken, Prof. Wolfgang (Leipzig/Geschichte), Balkan als Gewaltgeschichte ? (Balkans as a history of violence?)
• Hughes-Freeland, Felicia, Ritual, Performance, Media (book)
• Ilieva, Angelina, Permutations of the Mythic Lens: The Gaze of the West in Milcho Manchevski’s Films “Before the Rain” and “Dust”
• Ilieva, Angelina, Traversing the Fantasy: Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain
• Ilieva, Angelina, Seeing and Being Seen: Negotiating the Western Gaze in Milcho Manchevski’s Before The Rain
• Ilieva, Angelina Emilova, PhD, Romulus’s nations: Myths of brotherhood and fratricide in Russian and South Slavic National Narratives (Nikolai Vasil’evich Gogol’, Petar Njegos, Serbia and Montenegro, Anton Donchev, Bulgaria, Milcho Manchevski, Macedonia)
• Iordanova, Dina, Before the Rain in a Balkan Context
• Ivanov, Bojan, Motives
• J.P.L., …sobre o cinema dos balcãs
• Kolozova, Katerina, On Manchevski’s Mothers: An Anatomy of Misogyny. Kibbey, Ann, Montage and the Semiotics of Credibility: An Analysis of Before The Rain
• Kibbey, Ann, Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Contemporary Film and Women (book),
  Indiana University Press, 2005, Essay Three: Relief from the Production of Certainties
• Kitchen, Judith, Distance and Direction (book)
• Kleen,Björn af, Before the Rain in Utrikespolitiska Föreningen (Association of Foreign Affairs), Lund University
• Kobow, Beatrice (Leipzig/Philosophie-Filmtheorie), Die Lebenden und die Toten B
  Meistererzählung, narrative Rahmenstruktur und Kollektive Identität in Dust (The Living and the Dead B Masternarrative, Narrative Frames and Collective Identity in Dust)
• Kolbe, Kica, Searching for the Aura of the Street
• Kolozova, Katerina, Shadows: Sexuality and Melancholy
• Kostova, Marina, Manchevski (mongraph), Ars Lamina, Bitsia, 2015
• Kostova, Marina, Just a Moral Obligation
• Kostova, Marina with Kunovski, Blagoja, Rain, the World about Milcho Manchevski’s Before the Rain (book), Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004
• Kostova, Marina, The West With a Skeleton in the Closet: How Macedonia Lost the War for Truth
• Krastev, Ivan and Krasztev, Péter, Reflections on Balkan Furniture – The Paradigm Lost
• Kremeier, Ulrike (Berlin-Leipzig/Kunstgeschichte), (Re)inszenierung des Realen B Malerei und Film ((Re)Staging of the Real B Painting and Film)
• Kronauer, Dr. Iris (Köln-Berlin/Geschichte), Dust – Über Politik, Krieg und Film (Dust B on Politics, War and Film)
• Kronauer, Dr. Iris, Wiping Dust in Venice, 2015
• Kronauer, Dr. Iris, Manchevski biography, 2015
• Krstev, Petar, Uredbata na Balkanite
• Kujundziski, Zarko, Macedonian Rashomon, an Interview with Milcho Manchevski, Blesok
• Lambevski, Saso, Se prepoznav!
• Lambevski,Sasho Alexander, Feeling the Paranoiac, the Schizzo and the Depressive: A Semiotic Analysis of Macedonia’s Emotional Architecture in Before the Rain
• José MaríaCaparrós Lera, El cine de nuestros días(1994-1998)
• Macdonald, Ian, Screenwriting Poetics and the Screen Idea
• Makarushka, Irena, Religion, Ethnicity and Violence in Before The Rain
• Manning, Erin, Waiting for Faces to Speak Pictures: Estrangement, Silence and Eternal Recurrence in Manchevski’s Before the Rain
• Marciniak, Katarzyna, Transnational Anatomies of Exile and Abjection in Milcho Manchevski’s Before The Rain
• Marciniak, Katarzyna, Alienhood : citizenship, exile, and the logic of difference (book)
• Marcus, George E., Cultural Producers in Perilous States: Editing Events, Documenting Change (book)
• Maric, Zoran, Between Myths and Memories: The Balkans in the Films of Milcho Manchevski
• Marzouka, Nelly, Antes de la lluvia, la decision de vivir en el ser o en la negacion de ser: el
  tener (comparación del conflicto de los Balcanes y la ocupación sionista.fascista en Palestina)
• McGrady, Connor and Solman, Dario, Macedonian Mythmaking
• McGrady, Connor, Fragments, Layers and Temporal Disruption: Observations on Milcho Manchevski’s Work in Film
• McGrady, Connor, Time, Narrative and Representation: Milcho Manchevski’s Work in Performance and Photography
• McMahon, Vanessa, Mothers review, Fest21
• McKean, Dave, Street
• Meggle, Prof. Georg (Leipzig/Philosophie), Kollektive Identität – Oder: Wer sind wir?
  (Collective Identity B or: who are we?)
• Mickov, Biljana, Five Drops of Dream
• Milicic-Wagner, Tanja, Home
• Monegal, Antonio, Aporias of the War Story
• Moran, Albert, Film Policy: International, National and Regional Perspectives (Culture, Policy, and Politics) (book)
• Moreiras-Menor, C., Critical Interventions on Violence: An Introduction
• Morini, Andrea, Strada, Fotografie di MilchoManchevski
• Munos, Abel, Visiones de una Caida
• Naput, Alicia, La Tragedia En El Cine
• Petrovski Zoran, Five Drops of Dream
• Preußer, Heinz-Peter, Tödliche Blicke Filmische Typologien des Fotografen, des Reporters und des Regisseurs im Kriege. Spottiswoode – Born/Schlöndorff – Manchevski – Kusturica – Angelopoulos
• Psarros, PD Nikolaos (Leipzig/Philosophie), A Shootist for VMRO – Eine zweifache Läuterung und eine Sünde (A shootist for VMRO – a Double Redemption and a Sin)
• Raskin, Richard, On Unhappy Endings, Politics and Storytelling, P.O.V, a Danish Journal of Film Studies, no. 16, Dec 2003
• Rhodes,Nancy Keefe, Storytelling in the New Post-War Western
• Rosenstone, A. Robert, A History of What Has Not Yet Happened
• Ryan, James, Screenwriting from the Heart (book)
• Sarkanjac, Branislav, Catachresis and “Dust
• Screenpeace: An Antiwar Film Festival, the War Resisters League’s 2007 peace calendar
• Sheleva, E., The Macedonian Film in the Balkan Cultural Intertext
• Slapsak, Svetlana, Luke Balkanwalker Shoots Corto Maltese: Milcho Manchevski’s ADust@
  as an answer to the Western Cultural Colonialism
• Slapsak, Svetlana, Representations of Gender as Constructed, Questioned and Subverted in Balkan Films, Cineaste
• Slapsak, Svetlana, Legenda o nepotrebnoj smrti
• Sopova, Jasmina, The Century of the Cinema Edition, interview with Milcho Manchevski, UNESCO Courier
• Soria, Marta and Arnau, Pablo, Analisis Estetico Y Etico De Una Pelicula (Ejamplo de pelicula analizada: Before The Rain de Manchevsky)
• Stone, Judy, Eye on the World: Conversations with International Filmmakers (book)
• Tangerstad, Erik, After the War? A Historical Reflection on the Film Before The Rain (edited and revised)
• Tangerstad, Erik, Before the Rain – After the War?
• Tängerstad, Erik (Lund/Geschichte-Filmtheorie), When A Story Hides the Story – Dust as a Form of Collective Rorschach Test
• Taylor, Romy, A Balkan Solution? Fluid Identities in Manchevski’s 1994 Before The Rain
• Treber, Karsten, Auf Abwegen : episodisches Erzählen im Film (book)
• Weber, Dr. Claudia (Leipzig/Geschichte), Mental Maps. Identitätskonstruktionen in Raum und Zeit. (Mental Maps. Constructions of Identity in Space and Time)
• Werbart, Andrzej, Our Need of Taboo: Pictures of Violence and Mourning Difficulties
• Wexman Wright, Virginia,Verities: the 2011 Berlinale, Off screen
• Woodard, Thomas, Living/Reliving: Before The Rain
• World Policy Journal, Volume XVI, No 2, Summer 1999, The Ten Best Films About International Relations
• Yien, Denis, James Joyce’s “Finnegan’s Wake” and Milcho Manchevski’s “Before The Rain” – Storyboard for Hyper-Narrative Assignment
• Yotov, Prof. Stilian (Sofia/Philosophie), Der ‘Wilde Western’ des Balkans (The Wild West of
  the Balkans)
• Zizek, Slavoj, Metastaze uzivanja
• Zoller Seitz, Mark, Distant Thunder

Films by Manchevski Used in Curricula at Universities

(Partial List of Universities)

• Academia Musicalis Lituanie Arizona State University
• Art Institute of Chicago (AFilm and Memory@)
• Beijing Film Academy,China Bergen University College, Norway Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
• Birkbeck University of London, UK Braca Karic, Belgrade, Serbia
• Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies
• California State University San Marcos Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Case Western Reserve University Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro,
• Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
• Central Oregon Community College College of Europe, Belgium
• College of William and Mary, The, VA
• Columbia University Cornell University CUNY, Brooklyn
• Duke University, Department of Management, Durham, NC
• Eastern Connecticut State University
• Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television EICTV, Havana, Cuba
• Elon University School ofCommunications Euro Acting School of San Francisco
• European University Institute Robert Schuman Centre Department of History and Civilisation
• Evrobalkan Ohrid Summer University Fakultet dramskih umetnosti, Belgrade, Serbia FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolf Florida Atlantic University
• Georgetown University, Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies
• Graduate School of Film Producing, Tokyo
• Grinnell College
• Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
• Gustavus Adolfus College in Minnesota (AConflict Resolution@) Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Germany
• High Schools in Australia, Year 12 Course Book, Macedonian as Second Language Institut Català d’Antropologia, Barcelona, Spain
• Institute of Journalism and Communication, Tokyo University
• International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway
• Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, The Jerusalem University
• Kunsthochschule für Medien, Cologne Germany
• Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, Roma Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
• Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic
• Michigan Technological University, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
• Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts National Film School, Poland, Lodz National high school syllabus in Italy
• National Academy of Theater and Film Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
• New York State Writers Institute in Albany New Zealand Film School
• North Central College; Naperville, IL
• Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Northwestern University
• New York University (Dept of Comparative Literature: ADiscourse and Society@)
• NYU, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies
• NYU in Prague, Czech Republic, Media, Culture and Globalization Ohio State University
  Ohio University
• Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Parsons School of Design, New York Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Rutgers University
  Salem State College, Salem, MA
• Scuola Nazionale di Cinema, Rome Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Southern Connecticut State University Stanford Film Society, Stanford University Stony Brook University, New York
• SUNY Stony Brook
• Study of Current English, The, Korea (textbook) Tel Aviv University
• Texas Christian University, Fort Worth Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas Union College
• Universidad de Alicante Comunidad Valenciana España
• Universidad del cine, Argentina Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, La, Spain Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barselona, Spain
• Universität Zürich, Switzerland Universität Leipzig, Gremany Universität Bremen, Germany
• Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
• Univeristy of Bielefeld University of Brussels, Belgium University of Minnesota University of Michigan
• University of Calgary, Department of Religious Studies University of Hawaii, Department of History, Honolulu University of North Carolina at Charlotte, The University of Surrey, The, Guildford, UK
• University of Cambridge, Clare Hall College, UK
• University of Kansas
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• University of San Diego, Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies
• University of Illinois at Urbana, The Russian, East European and Eurasian Center
• University of the Philippines, College of Mass Communication, University of Oklahoma
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Philosophy University of Leicester, UK
• University at Albany, New York State Writers Institute
• University of Washington
• University of Calgary, Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities University of Rochester, Rochester,NY
• University of New Hampshire, Whittemore School of Business & Economics
• University of Massachusetts Amherst University of New Hampshire
• University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
• University of Michigan – CREES Department of Education National Resource,Center for Eastern Europe, Russia, and Eurasia)
• University of St Andrews, Scotland University of Wisconsin – Madison University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point University of Arizona
• University of Texas in Austin
• University of Oklahoma University of São Paulo, Brasil
• University of Central Florida, Orlando University of Greenwich, England University of Aarhus, Denmark University of Vienna, Austria University of Fribourg, Switzerland
• University of Copenhagen, Denmark University of Southern California, University of Illinois
  University of Chicago (Listening Comprehension Workbook, Department of Slavic and Baltic
  Languages and Literature) University of Western Australia VGIK, Moscow, Russia
• Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand
• West Virginia University
• Wheeling Jesuit University, West Virginia
• Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Xavier University of Louisiana
• Yale University (World Cinema class) York University, Ontario, Canada

Professional Associations

• European Film Academy Directors Guild of America PEN Club
  Writers’ Association of Macedonia
• former:
  Directors Guild of Great Britain, Writers Guild of Great Britain

Festival Juries

• Locarno (President)
• Venice Orizzonti,
• Warszawa (President),
• Vilnius (President),
• Sarajevo (President),
• Munich (President),
• Goethe-Institut Verbindungsbüro Skopje (President),
• Shanghai,
• Herceg Novi,
• Rostov on Don,
• FEST Belgrade,
• Fajr
• Roma Balkan Fiulm Festival (president)

Teaching

• Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV, Havana, Cuba, 2016
• Feirsten Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn College, 2016-2018
• VGIK (the Russian state film school), 2012/13
• Educational project supported by the Department of State and the US Embassy
• New York University, 2002-2009, Full-time, Head of Directing Department
• Lee Strasberg Institute, 2008

Workshops, Master Classes and Lectures (Partial Listing)

• Arizona State University, 2023
• Oslo University 2018
• First Film First, Belgrade, 2017 Shanghai University 2016
• First Film First, Belgrade, 2016 London Film School 2015, Oxford Brookes University 2015, York University (Canada) 2015,
• Western University, Ontario, 2015,
• American University in Bulgaria 2015,
• Marubi Film Academy in Tirana (Albania) 2015,
• OSCE mission to Tirana 2015,
• University of Tsukuba (Japan) 2015,
• University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf 2014 (the German state film school), Universität Bielefeld (Germany) 2014,
• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) 2014,
• Cambridge University 2013,
• Hanoi Cinematheque 2013,
• Temple University (Philadelphia) 2013, Multimedia Museum in Moscow 2013, Pratt Institute 2012 and 2013, Cineteca di Bologna 2011
• University of Texas at Austin 2008 and 2011
• Bulgarian Film Academy, Sofia 2011,
• Minsk University, Institute of Journalism, Belarus 2011,
• Mahidol University International College, Bangkok (Thailand) 2010,
• Binger Film Lab (Amsterdam, Holland) 2009,
• University of Chicago 2008,
• Lilian Vernon Center for International Affairs at NYU (Politics and Art in Cinema) 2006,
• Columbia University 2002
• Moynihan Institute for European Studies at Syracuse University Museum of Modern Art, Oklahoma
• National Arts Club, New York
• Tisch Singapore,
• Southern Illinois University,
• University of Central Florida,
• Elon University, FDU (Belgrade), University of Oklahoma,
• Brown University,
• several festivals (Venice, Goa, Trieste, Aruba, Manaki Brothers, Madrid Experimental, SEEfest in Vienna… among others).

Education

• BA. Film Production, Department of Cinema and Photography,
• College of Mass Communication and Media Arts, Southern Illinois Univ, Carbondale, 1983
• (Southern Illinois University Distinguished Alumni Award, 2005)
• (Cinema and Photography Alumni Recognition Award, 1997)
• Archaeology and Art History, College of Philosophy, Univerzitet Kiril i Metodij, Macedonia, 1978/79