Milcho Manchevski is a New York–based Macedonian film director, photographer and artist.

Work

Milcho Manchevski's acclaimed Before the Rain is considered "one of the greatest debut feature films in the history of cinema" (Annette Insdorf) and "one of the most important films of the decade" (Ann Kibbey). The New York Times included it in its Guide to the Best 1,000 Films Ever Made list. It won the Golden Lion in Venice, Independent Spirit, was nominated for an Academy Award and won 30 other awards. He has also made the multiple award-winning Dust, Shadows, Mothers, Bikini Moon and Willow, and the shorts The End of Time, Thursday, Macedonia Timeless, Tennessee and 1.73. Manchevski has authored four exhibitions of photographs, works of fiction, books of essays, and performance art. His work had more than 350 festival screenings (including Venice, Berlin, Toronto, São Paulo, Istanbul, Tokyo, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Stockholm, Valencia, Sundance, Cinequest, Raindance, Aspen, Jihlava, Mons, Shangai, Beijing, Goa, Bangalore, Sofia, Sarajevo, Thessaloniki, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Moscow etc.). His films have been distributed in more than 50 countries. His work has been included in the curricula of numerous universities and has been the subject of two academic conferences (in Firenza and Leipzig); he holds an Honorary Doctorate from Moscow's VGIK. He has taught and lectured at the Feirstein Graduate School at Brooklyn College, Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, VGIK in Moscow, EICTV in Cuba, London Film School, University of Texas at Austin, Chicago University, Cambridge University, Cineteca di Bologna, Shanghai University, etc.. Manchevski won best director at the 2020 Raindance Film Festival for Willow.

Filmography

Feature films

Short films

Television

Music videos

Art exhibitions

“There“, 2020 "Five Drops of Dream" (exhibition of photographic pentaptychs) 2010 "Street", 1999 "The Manifesto of Conceptualists" "Faces" "1am" "How to Explain to a Live Rabbit the Joseph Beuys’ Work How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare" "Riddle" "1.74" "The Editing of The Ghost of my Mother" Thursday 2 (censored by Facebook)