Koga denot nemase ime

When the Day Had no Name

Milan and his best friend Petar prepare an adventurous excursion with some other teenagers from the outskirts of Skopje. They are adrenalized for a boys’ night out of drinking and horseplay before an early morning fishing expedition. They are typical teenagers full of sexual and romantic tensions and angst about money and material things. They are sometimes devilish and sometimes angelic – hungry to be adults, yet they still mostly act like children. They all have dysfunctional relationships with their parents, and they represent a whole generation of youth raised in a time of transition and questionable values. Their night of fun is tainted by ethnic tensions and a visit gone wrong to a teenaged prostitute …

Director's Biography
TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA, born in Skopje in 1974, took a degree in graphic design and studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. In 2004, she won the European Competition at CROSSING EUROPE with How I Killed a Saint. Her I Am from Titov Veles was screened at over eighty festivals around the world and won more than twenty awards. // Films (selection): Kako ubiv svetec (How I Killed a Saint, 2004; CE’04), Jas sum od Titov Veles (I Am from Titov Veles, 2008; CE’08), The Woman Who Brushed off Her Tears (2012; CE’12), Koga denot nemase ime (When the Day Had no Name, 2017)
European Panorama Fiction 2017
Teona Strugar Mitevska
North Macedonia / Belgium / Slovenia 2017
color
84 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Teona Strugar Mitevska, Elma Tataragić
Cinematography Agnés Godard
Editing Stefan Stanbenow, Sophie Vercruysse
Sound/Sounddesign Ingrid Simon, Thomas Gauder, Paul Heymans
Music Jean Paul Dessy
With Leon Ristov, Hanis Bagashov, Stefan Kitanovic, Dragan Mishevski, Ivan Vrtev Soptrajanov, Igorco Postolov, Perunika Kiselicki, Ines Hodic, Erina Poplavska, Labina Mitevska
Producer(s) Labina Mitevska (Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production, MK), Sébastien Delloye, Diana Elbaum, Francois Touwaide (Entre Chien et Loup, BE), Danijel Hočevar (Vertigo, SI)
Production
Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production Franklin Ruzvelt 4-38 1000 Skopje, Macedonia info@sistersandbrothermitevski.com www.sistersandbrothermitevski.com
Austrian Premiere
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Berlin International Film Festival 2017

Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere