Mothers Trailer
Official Trailer
Film
Mothers
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police – even though they never saw him.
01 / Story
Synopsis
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. A reporter who writes about the murders is arrested.
The fiction slowly turns into a documentary.
Employing an innovative structure, Mothers<.em> highlights the delicate relationships of truth and fiction, of drama and documentary, becoming thus a meditation on the nature of truth.
Directed with a keen eye for the heartbreaking state of contemporary Macedonia, this triptych eschews neat narrative devices and pushes the viewer to confront their own definitions of filmic reality.
In the traditional structuralist manner, the structure of the film itself (two parts fiction and one part documentary) becomes part of its message.
02 / Film details
Information
Original title
Mothers
Production Year
2010
Cast
Ana Stojanovska
Vladimir Jacev
Dimitar Gjorgjievski
Ratka Radmanovic
Salaetin Bilal
Emilija Stojkovska
Milijana Bogdanoska
Dime Iliev
Marina Pop Pankova
Goran Trifunovski
Petar Mircevski
Blagoja Spirkoski – Dzmerko
Boris Corevski
Tamer Ibrahim
Mladen Momcilovic
And the people of Kicevo
03 / Credits
Full Credits
Director of photography
Vladimir Samoilovski
A Milcho Manchevski Film
A Banana Film Production
in co-production with
Ciné-Sud Promotion
and
Elements Film
with the participation of
The Macedonian Film Fund
The Bulgarian National Film Centre
and
Fonds Sud Cinéma, Ministère de la Culture – CNC,
Ministère des Affaires Étrangères et Européennes (France)
Starring
Ana Stojanovska
Vladimir Jacev
Dimitar Gjorgjievski
Ratka Radmanovic
Salaetin Bilal
Emilija Stojkovska
Milijana Bogdanoska
Dime Iliev
Marina Pop Pankova
Goran Trifunovski
Petar Mircevski
Blagoja Spirkoski – Dzmerko
Boris Corevski
Tamer Ibrahim
Mladen Momcilovic
And the people of Kicevo
Crew
Written and Directed by Milcho Manchevski
Produced by Christina Kallas
Director of Photography Vladimir Samoilovski
Production Designer David Munns
Edited by Zaklina Stojcevska
Music Composed by Igor Vasilev Novogradska
Supervising Sound Editor Peter Baldock
Make-Up Designer Mario Michisanti
Costume Designer Elizabeta Montaldo
Casting Director – Children Maja Mladenovska
Casting Directors Biljana Dragicevic – Projkovska, Kirjana A. Nikoloska
Executive Producers Christina Kallas, Milcho Manchevski
Co-Producers Thierry Lenouvel, Methodius Petrikov
Associate Producer Marie-Pierre Macia
Assistant Producer Elena Staniseva
Production Manager Milan Stojanovic
1st Assistant Director Nikola Ivanovic
03 / Video
Trailers & Videos
Mothers Trailer
Official Trailer
Mothers Teaser
Teaser
The Making of Mothers
Official Trailer
Филмологот Владо Ангеловски се осврнува кон „Мајки“
Other
04 / Stills
Gallery
Painfully beautiful.
Daring, provocative, controversial.
Mothers opens up lines between documentary and fiction at the same time that it also blurs them. A special place in contemporary cinema.
Manchevski gradually reveals the corruption and the failure of the Macedonian investigative and judicial system. […] Manchevski‘s esthetic experiment proves successful and confirms his extraordinary talent as a storyteller of images and moods, his skills in directing actors of every age and his ability to suggest hints instead of verifying theories
Mothers is a very strange film, sometimes sophisticated, poignant and often elliptical. One of the most interesting and original filmmakers of recent years. One of those authors who are not afraid to face the genres and to push the boundaries.
Mothers is an operation completely extraneous to the conceptual and aesthetic codes of contemporary cinema. Manchevski’s epic humanism finally returns.
Mothers debunks the notion that documentaries can tell the truth.
Mothers is a film about moral courage.
Stylistically provocative.
07 / Press & Essays
Press & Essays
Essay
On Milcho Manchevski's Mothers (2011)
Review
Mothers
Review
Compelling "Mothers" mixes truth and fiction
Review
“Farewell My Concubine” (Chen Kaige) – “Mothers”
Review
Mothers review
Review
Mothers review
In Persian
Review
MAJKE Istinite laži 'cinema veritea'
In Croatian
Review
Мајки
In Macedonian
Article
TIFF Diary
Review
Materna trilogia macedone
In Italian
Review
Putzfrauen und andere Mütter
In German
Review
Mothers
In German
Interview
Milcho Manchevski Talks About Macedonia
Review
Mothers, Aruba review!
Review
Mothers: Berlin Review
Review
Berlino 2011 - Mothers - Panorama
In Italian
Essay
Verities: the 2011 Berlinale
Article
Macedonian Film 'Mothers' Heads to Berlinale
Review
Berlin movie review: "Mothers"
Reuters review
Article
Manchevski’s 'Mothers' Rules Belgrade Fest
Article
Film 'Majke' Milca Mancevskog nagraden na FEST
In Serbian
Review
Mothers (Majki): Falsedad y certeza
In Spanish
Review
La verdad es un lienzo que oscurece
In Spanish
Article
Manchevski rompe las fronteras de géneros
In Spanish
Review
Majki: Caras de la fricción
Interview
Manchevski: Donne per narrare il mondo
Page 1 / page 2. In Italian
Article
Il Trieste Film Festival aprirà con “Madri” di Manchevski
In Italian
Interview
Milcho on Mothers at SIFF
Review
'Mothers' a return to form for filmmaker Milcho Manchevski
Interview
Zanim spadnie deszcz – Przypowieść o oczyszczeniu
Interview in Polish
Interview
Профили от филмовата карта на света
Interview in Bulgarian
Interview
Измислицата е истина, прикрита в една лъжа
Interview in Bulgarian
Article
Истината и само истината
In Bulgarian
Interview
Milcho Manchevski Röportajı
Interview in Turkish
Interview
Bog je u detalju: Milco Mancevski pred Festovu premijeru filma "Majke"
Interview in Serbian
Article
Licnost Danas: Milco Mancevski
In Serbian
Interview
Mancevski: Covek uvek na gubitku
Interview in Serbian
Interview
Milčo Mančevski, makedonski reditelj: Volim Balkan, ali ga ne idealizujem
Interview in Serbian
Review
"Majke" po starinski
In Serbian
Interview
Уметност мора да има смисла, живот не
Interview in Serbian
Interview
Interview with Milcho Manchevski
In Italian
Article
Manchevski, come fuori programma
In Italian
Article
Manchevski l'anima macedone al Lumière
In Italian
Review
Macedonia: detrás de la noticia
In Spanish
Article