Manaki Brothers Film Festival

ICFF "Manaki Brothers"

Location	Bitola, Republic of Macedonia
Founded	1979
Awards	Camera 300
Language	International
Website	http://manaki.mk/

The International Cinematographers Film Festival "Manaki Brothers" (known short as Manaki Film Festival; Macedonian: Интернационалниот фестивал на филмска камера "Браќа Манаки"; ИФФК Браќа Манаки) is an annual international Macedonian film festival organized by the Macedonian Film Professionals Association (MFPA). The festival is held in Bitola, the town where most of the activities of the Aromanian brothers Yanaki and Milton Manaki were organized. They were the filmmakers, who in 1905 filmed in Avdela the first motion pictures in the Ottoman Balkans.^[1] Each year the festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia and the President of the Republic of Macedonia. The award of the festival is Camera 300 that given to the year's best motion pictures chosen by the festival's film committee.The Manaki Film Festival has been hosted at the Center of culture, with screenings at the Big Hall, located in the center of Bitola and has been attended by celebrities such as Thierry Frémont, Tardu Flordun, Richard Sammel, Torsten Voges, Rade Šerbedžija, Miki Manojlović, Mirjana Karanović, Michael York, Charles Dance, Victoria Abril, Daryl Hannah, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Julliette Binoche, Aleksei Serebryakov and Bruno Ganz.

Golden Camera 300 for life achievement

• 1996 Milton Manaki
• 1997 Ljube Petkovski and Branko Mihajlovski
• 1998 Sven Nykvist
• 1999 Jerzy Wojcik
• 2000 Freddie Francis
• 2001 Miroslav Ondříček and Henri Alekan
• 2002 Tonino Delli Colli
• 2003 Raoul Coutard
• 2004 Vadim Yusov
• 2005 Vittorio Storaro
• 2006 Michael Ballhaus
• 2007 Anatoli Petritsky
• 2008 Walter Carvalho
• 2009 Billy Williams and Peter Suschitzky
• 2010 Vilmos Zsigmond
• 2011 Dante Spinotti
• 2012 Luciano Tovoli
• 2013 José Luis Alcaine
• 2014 Chris Menges
• 2015 Božidar Nikolić, Jaromír Šofr, Ryszard Lenczewski^[2]

Special Golden Camera 300

• 2000 - Jiří Menzel
• 2002 - Robby Müller
• 2003 - Christopher Doyle
• 2006 - Charles Dance
• 2007 - Branko Lustig
• 2008 - Veljko Bulajić and Karen Shakhnazarov
• 2009 - Victoria Abril and Anthony Dod Mantle
• 2010 - Daryl Hannah and Roger Pratt
• 2011 - Bruno Delbonnel and Miki Manojlovic
• 2012 - Christian Berger and Catherine Deneuve
• 2013 - Agnès Godard and Isabelle Huppert
• 2014 - Luca Bigazzi^[3] and Juliette Binoche
• 2015 - Aleksei Serebryakov and Bruno Ganz^[4]

Golden Camera 300

• 1993 - Vilko Filač for Arizona Dream
• 1994 - Gerard Simon for Louis, the Child King
• 1995 - Stefan Kullänger for Sommaren
• 1996 - Masao Nakabori for Maborosi
• 1997 - Sergey Astakhov for Brother
• 1998 - Walter Carvalho for Central Station
• 1999 - Jacek Petrycki for Journey to the Sun
• 2000 - Andreas Höfer for The Three Lives of Rita
• 2001 - Ryszard Lenczewski for Last Resort
• 2002 - Walter Carvalho for To the Left of the Father
• 2003 - Christopher Doyle for Hero and Barry Ackroyd for Sweet Sixteen
• 2004 - Rainer Klausmann for Head-On
• 2005 - Shu Yang Kong for That
• 2006 - Stéphane Fontaine for The Beat That My Heart Skipped
• 2007 - Dragan Marković for The Living and the Dead and Jaromír Šofr for I Served the King of England
• 2008 - Rodrigo Prieto for Lust, Caution
• 2009 - Natasha Braier for The Milk of Sorrow
• 2010 - Marin Gschlacht for Women Without Men
• 2011 - Fred Kelemen for The Turin Horse
• 2012 - Jolanta Dylewska for In Darkness
• 2013 - Kiko de la Rica for Blancanieves
• 2014 - Valentyn Vasyanovych for The Tribe
• 2015 - Mátyás Erdély for Son of Saul

Silver Camera 300

• 2011 - Michael Krichman for Quiet Souls
• 2012 - Alisher Khamidkhadjaev for Living
• 2013 - Virginie Saint-Martin for Tango Libre
• 2014 - Ryszard Lenczewski for Ida
• 2015 - Adam Arkapaw for Macbeth

List of Festival Directors

Before 1993 the festival didn't have a director,the function was introduced in 1993.

• Boris Nonevski 1993-1995
• Gorjan Tozija 1995-1995
• Delcho Mihajlov 1996-1998
• Vladimir Atanasov 1998-2001
• Tomi Salkovski 2001-2009
• Labina Mitevska 2009-2014^[5]
• Dimitar Nikolov 2015–Present^[6]

Main Competition Jury

• 2015 - Božidar Nikolić, Ryszard Lenczewski, Mitko Panov, Hayet Benkara, Ercan Kesal^[7]
• 2014 - Giora Bejach, Rebekah Tolley, Srdjan Dragojevic, Simon Tansek, Lazar Sekulovski
• 2013 - Jose Luis Alcaine, Amnon Zalait, Bojidar Manov, Elma Tataragic, Dejan Dukovski
• 2012 - Fred Kelemen, Miladin Colakovic, Damjan Kozole, Ilija Penushliski, Virgine Saint Martin
• 2011 - Dante Spinotti, Eva Zaoralova, Goce Smilevski, Nigel Walters, Martin Schweighofer
• 2010 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Pawel Pawlinkowski, Dominique Fury, Natasha Braier, Darko Mitrevski, Christine Dollhofer
• 2009 - Peter Suschitzky, Slobodan Šijan, Yuri Klimenko, Minas Bakalčev
• 2004 - César Charlone, Rosanna Seregni, Andreas Fischer-Hansen, Roi Jean, Umberto Rossi
• 2003 - Willy Kurant, Olinka Vistica, Gábor Medvigy, António Costa
• 2002 - Robby Müller, Alain Marcoen, Ronald Bergan, Jan Weincke, Antonio Mitrikeski
• 2001 - Andreas Hoffer, Dominique Bax, Eric Guichard, Aleksandr Bashirov, Dejan Dukovski
• 2000 - Jaromír Sofr, Jacek Petrycki, John Christian Rosenlund, Jan Hintjens, Ivo Trajkov
• 1998 - Morten Bruus, Sergei Astakhov, Martin Langer
• 1997 - Zivko Zalar, Simon Perry, Deborah Young
• 1996 - Marcel Martin
• 1995 - Dick Pope, Ron Holloway, Stole Popov

World, regional and national film premiers

• 2004: "The Great Water" (Големата вода) - National Premiere
• 2005: "Contact" (Контакт) - World Premiere
• 2006: "The Secret Book" (Тајната книга) - World Premiere
• 2010: "Mothers" (Мајки) - National premiere
• 2012: "The Third Half" (Трето полувреме) - World Premiere
• 2012: "Balkan Is Not Dead" (Балканот не е мртов) - World Premiere
• 2013: "The Piano Room" (Соба со пијано)- World Premiere
• 2014: "To the Hilt" (До балчак) -World Premiere
• 2014: "Children of the Sun" (Деца на сонцето) - World Premiere
• 2015: "Lazar" (Лазар) - World Premiere

Gallery

Daryl Hannah, exclusive guest of Manaki in 2010

References

1. Balkan border crossings: First annual of the Konitsa Summer School, Vasilēs G. Nitsiakos, LIT Verlag Münster, 2008, ISBN 3825809188, pp. 41-42.
2. http://manaki.mk/#shofr-lenchevski-i-nikolikj-laureati-na-nagradata-za-zhivotno-delo-zlatna-kamera-300
3. http://vistina.mk/2014/05/27/brak-a-manaki-po-35-pat-jubilej-nasochen-kon-zvezdite/
4. http://www.popularno.mk/2015/09/11/фестивал-браќа-манаки-бруно-ганц-и/
5. http://tera.mk/index.php/vesti/aktuel/87584-labina-mitevska-si-zaminuva-od-brakja-manaki
6. http://www.utrinski.mk/default.asp?ItemID=F6B0FE436C3AA34CB8EEB2AA9E03C54E
7. http://www.plusinfo.mk/vest/37891/shofr-lencevski-i-nikolikj-–-laureati-na-nagradata-za-zivotno-delo-zlatna-kamera-300