CutAway
Production
2016
The Pain Remains (A bolkata ostanuva)
Category: Short featured
Language: French
Director: Vladimir Taleski
Produced by: Dimitar Nikolov
Production company: CutAway
Coproduction company: ARS Digital Studio (BG), Quasar Film (MK)
Distribution company: CutAway
Editor: Blazhe Dulev
Screen play: Vladimir Taleski
Director of photography: Robert Jankuloski
Music: Marjan Necak
Principal cast: Kole Angelovski, Dimitar Gjorgjievski
Storyline: 100 years since the beginning of First World War. French cemetery in Bitola. An old man arrives in Bitola for the first time. According to correspondence and information from the French army, his predecessor with the same name must be located somewhere nearby. The ceremony ends and Jean fails to find the name of his grandfather. In front of the great monument, the old man is left alone. He falls down on his knees, and lays on his back holding an open letter. Seasons are changing. Time passes by, but the pain remains.
2015
Down from Heaven (Dolu od rajot)
Category: Short featured
Language: Macedonian
Director: Sasha Stanisikj
Produced by: Bojan Stanisic, Goce Kralevski, Dimitar Nikolov
Production company: CutAway
Coproduction company: ARS Digital Studio (BG)
Distribution company: CutAway
Backing: Bulgarian National Film Center, CEE Cinema Network, Macedonian Film Agency
Editor: Blazhe Dulev
Screen play: Kristina Hristova – Nikolova
Director of photography: Goran Naumovski
Music: Baba Zula
Principal cast: Ana Osavkova, Zoran Bojarovski, Kristina Hristova Nikolova, Sonja Osavkova
Storyline: Ana, a 15-year-old girl, replaces the SIM card from her phone, with that of her late grandfather. She starts pranking her family by sending them messages, using his number. But the seemingly naive joke turns against Ana.
Music: Baba Zula
Festivals:
- International Cinematograpers’ Film Festival Manaki Brothers, Macedonia, 2015
- International short film festival Kinosmena, 2016
- International Film Festival KineNova Macedonia, 2016
- International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, 2016
- Youth Film Festival Giffoni Macedonia, 2016
Manager Sasha Stanisikj projects:
2012
Mangava disko punk
Category: Short featured
Language: Macedonian
Director: Sasha Stanisikj
Produced by: Bojan Stanisic
Production company: CutAway
Coproduction company: ARS Digital Studio (BG), Quasar Film (MK)
Distribution company: CutAway
Editor: Blagoja Nedelkovski
Screen play: Sasa Stanisik
Director of photography:Boris Mojsovski
Music:Ognen Anastasovski
Principal cast: Irfan Nezir, Emra Kurtisova, Enoh Sait, Denis Dimovski, Sabedin Etem
Storyline: Mangava Disco Punk (in Romany meaning I love disco punk) is the only punk rock band in the famous Macedonian gypsy ghetto “Shutka”. Their frontman Elvis, unsuccessfully tries to conquer the heart of the waitress from the local restaurant. His father kicks him out of home. Elvis, vicious from the complete rejection of the society, experienced enlightenment in the form of a psychedelic nightmare where Elvis Presley appears as a local gypsy taxi driver, and Yul Brynner’s statue on the main square.
Awards:
- Special Jury Prize – Balkan Food and Film Festival, Pogradec, Albania, 2013
Festivals:
- FilmFestival Cottbus, Germany, 2013
- Balkan Film Fest, Lublin, Poland, 2013
- International Cinematographers’ Film Festival “Manaki Brothers”, Bitola, Macedonia, 2012
- Festival Diese, Dijon, France, 2012
- Author Film Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2012
2011
Sarah, the Myth
Category: Short featured
Language: Macedonian
Director: Sasha Stanisikj
Produced by: Dimitar Nikolov
Production company: KT Film & Media
Coproduction company: ARS Digital Studio (BG)
Distribution company: CutAway
Backing: Bulgarian National Film Center, CEE Cinema Network, Macedonian Film Agency
Editor: Vanco Mirakovski
Screen Writer: Kristina Hristova-Nikolova
Director of photography: Robert Jankulovski
Music: Marian Necak
Principal cast: Joana Popovska, Aleksandar Kopanya
Storyline: : In 1917, the renowned French actress Sarah Bernhardt visits the French soldiers of the Macedonian front in the vicinity of the town of Bitola. Before them she performed excerpts from Hamlet, character that she as first female marvelously interpreted twenty years earlier in the cosmopolite Paris. The lines of Hamlet in the terror of war attain cruel authenticity and unlock the eternal question – is human capable of escaping from himself.
Music: Baba Zula
Festivals:
- TISFEST – Teen International Shorts Festival, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013
- Festival of European Film – CineDays, Skopje, Macedonia, 2012
- Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2012
- Balkan Food and Film Festival, Albania, 2012
- Divan Film Festival, Romania, 2012
- In the Palace-International Short Film Festival, Bulgaria, 2012
- SEE a Paris South East European Film Festival, France, 2012
- International Cinematographers’ Film Festival “Manaki Brothers”, Bitola, Macedonia, 2011
2008
That’s my profession
2011