Sestri

Ok we get it. 30 years ago Milcho Manchevski made a movie that made it to the oscars. It was dark and it was about the post war reality of the balkans. Fast forward 30 years in the present the Balkans and Macedonia has very much changed, evolved and we no longer live in some dark reality. Heck even when I was a kid I wasn't living in some dark reality. Why do we as Macedonians always have to follow this one line of storytelling which one person had success with? Even Manchevski with Before the Rain exaggerated the reality to express certain emotions that had to do with nostalgia and were connected to a certain storyline. I just wish that Macedonian creators start trusting their own creativity and even though this story is also dark understand that you can create different types of dark reality without having to misrepresent or copy some style which was successful in the past. We have some really amazing directors and actors in the area. And we have a damn awesome country too full of modern, upbeat and beautiful locations and towns! How's that for controversy!