Sceneggiatura, montaggio / Screenplay, Editing: Goran Stolevski Fotografia / Photography: Naum Doksevski Musica / Music: Alen Sinkauz, Nenad Sinkauz Suono / Sound: Emma Bortignon, Zoran Maksimović Scenografia / Set Designer: Anna Rzeźniczek Costumi / Costume Designer: Roza Trajceska Ristovska Interpreti / Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Şerban, Samson Selim, Vladimir Tintor, Džada Selim, Mia Mustafa, Sara Klimoska, Rozafë Çelaj, Ajshe Useini Produzione / Produced by: List Production, Madants, Kinorama, Sense Production, Industria Film Coproduzione / Co-produced by: Film i Väst, Common Ground Pictures, Causeway Films. Con il sostegno di / Supported by: North Macedonian Film Agency, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Polish Film Institute, Film Center Serbia, Kosovo Cinematography Center Distribuzione internazionale / World Sales: New Europe Film Sales Distribuzione per l’Italia / Distributed in Italy by: Park Circus
Dita never wanted to be a mother, but circumstances force her to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters, tiny troublemaker Mia and rebellious teen Vanesa. A battle of wills ensues as the three continue to butt heads and become an unlikely family that has to fight to stay together.
“I’ve always been drawn to moments that feel ‘found’ or ‘discovered’ as opposed to ‘staged’. A lot of my filmmaking background has from necessity been built around shoestring budgets and skeleton crews. I’ve embraced this reality, developing a verité style which has now become an important element of my work … Shaping stories in this way helped to free up our actors and led to an entire ensemble’s worth of captivating, natural performances. In choosing a verité style, with overlapping dialogue, hand-held camerawork, naturalistic lighting, tight yet purposely messy framing and shallow depth of field, the purpose was always for the viewer to experience the story as the characters experiencing it.” (G. Stolevski)
Goran Stolevski
Film director and screenwriter Goran Stolevski was born in 1985 in North Macedonia. At the age of 12, he emigrated to Australia with his family. He completed a Bachelor of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne and a master in Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts. His first feature film You Won’t Be Alone premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. One of the projects selected at WEMW in 2021, Housekeeping for Beginners premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2023 in the “Orizzonti” section.
filmografia scelta / selected filmography
2015 Everything We Wanted cm / sf; You Deserve Everything cm / sf 2017 Would You Look at Her cm / sf 2018 My Boy Oleg cm / sf 2022 You Won’t Be Alone; On Age 2024 Domakinstvo za pocetnici (Housekeeping for Beginners); Premi / Awards: Venezia, Mostra del cinema / Venice FF – Queer Lion; New York LGBT FF – Miglior film di fiction internazionale / Best International Narrative Feature; Madrid LGBT IFF – Miglior film, Miglior sceneggiatura / Best Film, Best Screenplay