14th PFF Awards: Double “Golden Owl” for “Terrestrial Verses” by the Iranian directors Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami

14th PFF Awards: Double “Golden Owl” for “Terrestrial Verses” by the Iranian directors Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami

At last night’s Closing event of the 14th Philosophical Film Festival, the winners of the “Golden Owl” awards for the best feature and short film according to the jury committee, the special recognition “Stefan Sidovski – Sido” for a short film and the “Golden Owl” plaques for the best feature and short film were announced The jury committee of the 14th Philosophical Film Festival was composed of Slavica Srbinovska, PhD, professor at the Department of…

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Youth Workshops

Youth Workshops

YOUTH WORKSHOP “AESTHETHICS OF FILM LANGUAGE” (Skopje) The Youth Workshop with Atanas Chuposki, PhD, within the framework of the 13th PFF is intended for young people interested in the aesthetics of film language aged 17 to 19 (up to 12 participants). The aim of the workshop is to familiarize young cinephiles with the basics of film language and the ways of interpreting q film story. Like other arts, film art has a specific language but…

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Youth Workshops

Youth Workshops

In the second half of April and the beginning of May, within the framework of the festival, 7 youth workshops were held on current social topics with a film background:   April 19 (Ohrid) SOU “St. Kliment Ohridski” – Ohrid, Jane Bogoeski, graduate professor of philosophy April 20 (Skopje) DSLUD “Lazar Licenoski” – Skopje, Mariglen Demiri, M.Sc., professor of philosophy and scientific researcher at the Center for European Strategies “Eurothink”, Skopje April 24 (Bitola) SOU…

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FILMOSOPHY WITH CHILDREN

FILMOSOPHY WITH CHILDREN

This Educational programme’s segment is intended for the youngest philosophers and film buffs, for the children aged 7–12, and is connected with watching a film followed by a philosophical workshop (physically, in Skopje, and online – for children throughout Macedonia). This year, children from 9 to 11 years of age will watch the Japanese animated film “Mirai” (2018) and discuss on a selected topic. MIRAI (Mirai, 2018) animated film for children (8+) * Translation in…

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Publishing: “Sculpting in Time” by Andrei Tarkovsky

Publishing: “Sculpting in Time” by Andrei Tarkovsky

Perhaps the superlative “greatest” pertains to no other director’s name more naturally than to that of Andrei Tarkovsky; however, so far almost nothing of his work has been translate in Macedonian language. The Philosophical Society of Macedonia (FDM), in collaboration with the Philosophical Film Festival (PFF), intends to change that later this year, when it releases the Macedonian translation of Tarkovsky’s aesthetic magnum opus, “Sculpting in Time”. Unfortunately, the funds that were given to us…

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High School Programme – PFF 2023

High School Programme – PFF 2023

This year, in the framework of PFF’s Educational Program and with the support of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Skopje, the High School Programme took place traditionally in the course of April 2023. On April 4,  a screening of the film THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (El espiritu de la colmena / The Spirit of the Beehive, 1973) by Viktor Erise was held at the Youth Cultural Center in Skopje for students…

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PFF@MCA – Generación: Buñuel, Lorca, Dalí (14/5, 12.00)

PFF@MCA – Generación: Buñuel, Lorca, Dalí (14/5, 12.00)

PFF@MCA within the Programme of the 12th Philosophical Film Festival 14 May (Saturday), 12.00 Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje Generación: Buñuel, Lorca, Dalí (2018) dir. Javier Espada & Albert Montón (ES/MX), 75’ introduction by prof. Dr. Ivan Dzeparoski free screening, limited capacity In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje and the Embassy of Spain in Skopje   Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dali, and Federico Garcia Lorca — young and bright, intelligent and cheerful. They…

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