Koga denot nemase ime

When the Day Had no Name

Im April 2012 wurden an einem See im Umland von Skopje die Leichen von mazedonischen Teenagern gefunden. Ihre Geschichte erzählt von einer im Balkan-Umbruch verlorenen Generation: Milan, Petar, Cvetan, Rape, Ace und Vladan sind gewöhnliche Jugendliche wie alle anderen, deren Alltag von zerrütteten Familienverhältnissen, mangelndem Geld und Träumen von einer besseren Zukunft geprägt ist. Sie planen einen Angelausflug und verbringen vierundzwanzig Stunden zusammen, in denen sie einander näherkommen und nach und nach ihre wahren Gesichter zeigen. (Berlin International Film Festival)

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
Nordmazedonien / Belgien / Slowenien 2017
color
84 Minuten
OmeU
Drehbuch Teona Strugar Mitevska, Elma Tataragić
Kamera Agnés Godard
Schnitt Stefan Stanbenow, Sophie Vercruysse
Ton/Sounddesign Ingrid Simon, Thomas Gauder, Paul Heymans
Musik Jean Paul Dessy
Mit Leon Ristov, Hanis Bagashov, Stefan Kitanovic, Dragan Mishevski, Ivan Vrtev Soptrajanov, Igorco Postolov, Perunika Kiselicki, Ines Hodic, Erina Poplavska, Labina Mitevska
Produzent*innen Labina Mitevska (Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production, MK), Sébastien Delloye, Diana Elbaum, Francois Touwaide (Entre Chien et Loup, BE), Danijel Hočevar (Vertigo, SI)
Produktion
Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production Franklin Ruzvelt 4-38 1000 Skopje, Macedonia info@sistersandbrothermitevski.com www.sistersandbrothermitevski.com
Österreichpremiere
Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Berlin International Film Festival 2017

Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
Austrian Premiere