25th Skopje Film Festival set to screen ‘Corsage’, ‘Rimini’
Skopje, 11 September 2022 (MIA) – The films Corsage and Rimini will be screened as part of the 25th Skopje Film Festival at the Cinematheque of North Macedonia on Sunday.
Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage portrays a restless Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) touring Europe, trying to break free of her constricted life at court. The film won the Best Performance prize in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, and the Best Actress award at the Sarajevo Film Festival.
Rimini is part of the Authors Film Program, the latest comedy drama by filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, bringing his long-awaited return after a decade-long absence from fiction filmmaking. The film premiered in the main competition at the Berlin Film Festival. As part of the Cine Fashion program, documentary film Martin Margiela: In His Own Words, will be screened at the Kotur café-theatre at 7 pm. The film is an intimate portrait of designer Martin Margiela who the fashion world regarded as one of the most revolutionary and influential designers of the past 30 years. The film screening will be followed by a discussion with Kristina Gligorovska, fashion researcher and editor at the world’s famous fashion magazine WeAr and Aleksandra Olenska, fashion stylist and creative consultant for global brands such as Tom Ford, Celine, Daks London, Pringle of Scotland and Vanessa Bruno. The 25th edition of the Skopje Film Festival opened at the Cinematheque of North Macedonia on Friday. The opening evening presented exhibition of posters from the past 25 years of the Skopje Film Festival by notable Macedonian artists including Vane Kosturanov (2013), Zoran Kardula (2020), Gjorgji Despotov (2018), Tabi Aziri (2014, 2016), Meri Bakalova (2015), Bojan Krtolica (2012), Dimitar Apostolov (2011), Jana Misheva (2009), Filip Kondovski (1999), etc. The festival will last through September 17. The full program is available at www.skopjefilmfestival.com.mk
