November 2024

Manaki Film Fest: Focused on Motion Pictures

Photos by the author Macedonia might be most familiar as a storied place of the distant past. Territory of this ancient kingdom is now shared between North Macedonia and Greece, which together boast a history replete with great names of the ancient world. Coincidentally, the film business sometimes finds people craving to be remembered, in which context keeping a name like Alexander the Great current for 2,300 years feels like a standout achievement. It might take more than a star in the sidewalk to do that, but Macedonia has those, too. The city of Bitola, in the southwestern part of North Macedonia, near the border with Greece, keeps a moment of camera history among its streets of century-old buildings. Širok Sokak (literally...more