SKOPJE: Iranian film Terrestrial Verses by Ali Asgari and Alireza Khatami won the Golden Owl Award for Best Feature Film at the 14th Philosophical Film Festival, which took place in Skopje, North Macedonia.

SKOPJE: Macedonian director Srđan Janićijević has started shooting his debut feature Butcher´s Dance / Kasapsko oro in the Macedonian capital of Skopje. The film is produced by Novo Makedonsko Video and New Moment, and it is supported by the North Macedonia Film Agency.

SKOPJE: Macedonian director Andrey I. Volkashin is currently in production with his debut feature The Sweet Bitterness of Ripe Pomegranates / Slatkata gorchina na zrelite kalinki, produced by Veda Film Productions. The film is a Macedonian/Bulgarian/Croatian coproduction.

SKOPJE: Macedonian director Kosara Mitić has started shooting her debut feature 17, focused on teenagers and based on a true event, in the Macedonian capital of Skopje. The film is a coproduction between North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia.

SKOPJE: The Macedonian-based company Cutaway has launched Kidsquare, a new service for children's content with gamification elements, in collaboration with the Polish association New Horizons and the Italian company Nexo Digital.

SKOPJE: Macedonian director Dina Duma has started shooting her sophomore feature Skateboarding Is Not for Girls / Skejtanjeto ne e za devojcinja in the Macedonian capital of Skopje. The film is a coproduction between North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia and Croatia.

SKOPJE: Cypriot writer/director Minos Papas is currently shooting his third feature film Motherwitch / Dodecameron. The film is a coproduction between Cyprus, North Macedonia and the United States.

SKOPJE: FNE spoke with Vladimir Angelov, who was appointed by the Macedonian Government as the director of the North Macedonia Film Agency on 6 February 2024.

SKOPJE: The Macedonian animated series Bibi's Fairy Tales / Skaznite na Bibi is now available to the audience in the United Kingdom and the United States through Amazon Prime.

SKOPJE: The North Macedonia Film Agency distributed 1,907,317 EUR / 117,300,000 MKD as production grants for feature, short, animated and documentary films, as well as minority coproductions, in the first batch of production grants in 2024. A total of 23 films received financial support.