The International Cinematographers Film Festival "Manaki Brothers" (known short as Manaki Film Festival) is an annual international

film festival A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending up ...

organized by the Macedonian Film Professionals Association (MFPA). The festival is held in

Bitola Bitola (; mk, Битола ) is a city in the southwestern part of North Macedonia. It is located in the southern part of the Pelagonia valley, surrounded by the Baba (North Macedonia), Baba, Nidže, and Kajmakčalan mountain ranges, north of th ...

, the town where most of the activities of the Aromanian brothers Yanaki and Milton Manaki were organized. They were the filmmakers, who in 1905 filmed in Avdela the first motion pictures in the Ottoman Balkans. Each year the festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia and the President of North Macedonia. The award of the festival is ''Camera 300'' that given to the year's best motion pictures chosen by the festival's film committee. The Manaki Film Festival has been hosted at the Center of culture, with screenings at the Big Hall, located in the center of

and has been attended by celebrities such as Michael York, Charles Dance, Victoria Abril, Daryl Hannah,

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, Isabelle Huppert, Julliette Binoche, Aleksei Serebryakov, Bruno Ganz,

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Golden Camera 300 for life achievement

*1996 Milton Manaki *1997 Ljube Petkovski and Branko Mihajlovski *1998

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*1999 Jerzy Wojcik *2000 Freddie Francis *2001

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and Henri Alekan *2002

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*2003 Raoul Coutard *2004 Vadim Yusov *2005 Vittorio Storaro *2006 Michael Ballhaus *2007 Anatoli Petritsky *2008

Walter Carvalho Walter Carvalho (born 1947 in João Pessoa, Paraíba, Brazil) is a critically and internationally acclaimed Brazilian cinematographer. Carvalho has worked on over 60 films in his career since entering the Cinema of Brazil in 1973. He has wo ...

*2009

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and Peter Suschitzky *2010 Vilmos Zsigmond *2011 Dante Spinotti *2012 Luciano Tovoli *2013 José Luis Alcaine *2014 Chris Menges *2015 Božidar Nikolić, Jaromír Šofr, Ryszard Lenczewski *2016 Robby Müller, John Seale *2017 Giuseppe Rotunno and Pierre Lhomme *2018 Roger Deakins *2019 Edward Lachman and Giorgos Arvanitis *2020 Janusz Kamiński *2021 Christian Berger

Special Golden Camera 300

*2000 - Jiří Menzel *2002 - Robby Müller *2003 -

Christopher Doyle Christopher Doyle, also known as Dù Kěfēng (Mandarin) or Dou Ho-Fung (Cantonese) () (born 2 May 1952) is an Australian-Hong Kong cinematographer. He has worked on over fifty Chinese-language films, being best known for his collaborations ...

*2006 - Charles Dance *2007 - Branko Lustig *2008 - Veljko Bulajić and Karen Shakhnazarov *2009 - Victoria Abril and Anthony Dod Mantle *2010 - Daryl Hannah and Roger Pratt *2011 - Bruno Delbonnel and Miki Manojlovic *2012 - Christian Berger and

*2013 - Agnès Godard and Isabelle Huppert *2014 - Luca Bigazzi and Juliette Binoche *2015 - Aleksei Serebryakov and Bruno Ganz *2016 - Phedon Papamichael *2017 -

Milcho Manchevski Milcho Manchevski ( mk, Милчо Манчевски, )"Milcho Manchevski: Full Biography"

*2018 -
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*2021 - Andrei Konchalovsky *2021 - Jocelyn Pook

Golden Camera 300
* 1993 - Vilko Filač for '' Arizona Dream'' * 1994 - Gerard Simon for '' Louis, the Child King'' * 1995 - Stefan Kullänger for ''Sommaren'' * 1996 - Masao Nakabori for '' Maborosi'' * 1997 - Sergey Astakhov for ''
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'' * 1998 -
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for '' Central Station'' * 1999 - Jacek Petrycki for ''
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'' * 2000 - Andreas Höfer for ''The Three Lives of Rita'' * 2001 - Ryszard Lenczewski for ''Last Resort'' * 2002 - Walter Carvalho for '' To the Left of the Father'' * 2003 -
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for ''
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for '' Sweet Sixteen'' * 2004 - Rainer Klausmann for '' Head-On'' * 2005 - Shu Yang Kong for ''That'' * 2006 -
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for '' The Beat That My Heart Skipped'' * 2007 - Dragan Marković for '' The Living and the Dead'' and Jaromír Šofr for ''
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'' * 2008 - Rodrigo Prieto for '' Lust, Caution'' * 2009 -
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for '' The Milk of Sorrow'' * 2010 - Marin Gschlacht for '' Women Without Men'' * 2011 - Fred Kelemen for '' The Turin Horse'' * 2012 - Jolanta Dylewska for ''
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'' * 2013 - Kiko de la Rica for ''
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'' * 2014 - Valentyn Vasyanovych for '' The Tribe'' * 2015 -
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'' * 2018 -
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for '' Burning'' * 2019 - Hélène Louvart for '' The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão''

Silver Camera 300
*2011 - Michael Krichman for Quiet Souls *2012 - Alisher Khamidkhadjaev for Living *2013 - Virginie Saint-Martin for Tango Libre *2014 - Ryszard Lenczewski for Ida *2015 - Adam Arkapaw for Macbeth *2016 -
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for
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*2017 - Reiner Klausmann for In the Fade *2018 - Eric Gautier for Ash Is Purest White *2019 - Dong Jinsong for
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List of festival directors
Before 1993 the festival did not have a director, the function was introduced in 1993. *Boris Nonevski 1993-1995 *Gorjan Tozija 1995-1995 *Delcho Mihajlov 1996-1998 *Vladimir Atanasov 1998-2001 *Tomi Salkovski 2001-2009 * Labina Mitevska 2009-2014 *Dimitar Nikolov 2015–2015 *Blagoja Kunovski 2016–2018 *Evgenija Teodosievska 2018-2020 *Simeon Damevski 2021-?

Main competition jury
*2021 - Phillip Bergson, Wim Vanacker, Suki Medencevic, Sonja Prosenc, Dimo Popov *2019 - Edward Lachman, Kaloyan Bozhilov, Dominique Welinski, Fejmi Daut, Nenad Dukic *2018 - Olympia Mytilinaiou, Rainer Klausmann, Mattias Troelstrup, Rebecca Fayyad Palud, Gjorce Stavreski *2017 - Paul René Roestad, Luca Coassin, Darijan Pejovski, Jani-Petteri Passi, Erol Zubčević *2016 - Phedon Papamichael, Claire Pijman, Alin Taşçıyan, Gökhan Tiryaki, Vladimir Samoilovski *2015 - Božidar Nikolić, Ryszard Lenczewski, Mitko Panov, Hayet Benkara, Ercan Kesal *2014 - Giora Bejach, Rebekah Tolley, Srdjan Dragojevic, Simon Tansek, Lazar Sekulovski *2013 - Jose Luis Alcaine, Amnon Zalait, Bojidar Manov, Elma Tataragic, Dejan Dukovski *2012 - Fred Kelemen, Miladin Colakovic,
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, Ilija Penushliski, Virgine Saint Martin *2011 - Dante Spinotti, Eva Zaoralova,
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, Nigel Walters, Martin Schweighofer *2010 - Vilmos Zsigmond, Pawel Pawlinkowski, Dominique Fury,
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,
Darko Mitrevski Darko Mitrevski is a Macedonian film director currently living in Los Angeles, California, United States since 2007. His list of feature films includes '' Goodbye, 20th Century!'', ''Bal-Can-Can'', and ''The Third Half ''The Third Half'' ( mk, ...
, Christine Dollhofer *2009 - Peter Suschitzky,
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,
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, Minas Bakalčev *2004 - César Charlone, Rosanna Seregni, Andreas Fischer-Hansen, Roi Jean, Umberto Rossi *2003 -
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, Olinka Vistica, Gábor Medvigy, António Costa *2002 - Robby Müller,
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, Ronald Bergan ,
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, Antonio Mitrikeski *2001 - Andreas Hoffer, Dominique Bax,
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, Aleksandr Bashirov, Dejan Dukovski *2000 - Jaromír Sofr, Jacek Petrycki,
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, Jan Hintjens, Ivo Trajkov *1998 - Morten Bruus, Sergei Astakhov, Martin Langer *1997 - Zivko Zalar, Simon Perry, Deborah Young *1996 - Marcel Martin *1995 - Dick Pope, Ron Holloway,
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World, regional and national film premiers
*2004: " The Great Water" (''Големата вода'') - National Premiere *2005: "Contact" (''Контакт'') - World Premiere *2006: " The Secret Book" (''Тајната книга'') - World Premiere *2010: "
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" (''Мајки'') - National premiere *2012: " The Third Half" (''Трето полувреме'') - World Premiere *2012: " Balkan Is Not Dead" (''Балканот не е мртов'') - World Premiere *2013: " The Piano Room" (''Соба со пијано'')- World Premiere *2014: " To the Hilt" (''До балчак'') -World Premiere *2014: "Children of the Sun" (''Деца на сонцето'') - World Premiere *2015: "Lazar" (''Лазар'') - World Premiere *2016: "The Liberation of Skopje" (''Ослободувањето на Скопје'') - National Premiere *2016: "Golden five" (''Златна Петорка'') - World Premiere

Gallery

References
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