Movies by Nikola Ristanovski
![The Black Pin](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/tkynEeZVfBWxhMcdhfTEyVp9Szw.jpg)
The Black Pin
Father Peter fears that the universe has become indifferent. God no longer intervenes in earthly affairs. Peter's wife abandoned him, his son disobeys him and his mother suffers from Alzheimer's and hardly ever recognizes him. When Peter becomes an obstacle to a large property sale in his small island parish, a group of interesting, but vengeful villagers decides to force him to leave. Using very creative methods, they convince the entire superstitious village that Peter is the cause of all the troubles on their island.
![Balkan Is Not Dead](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/93KdhwurdoUqEU2eDWIKdmIE7Iy.jpg)
Balkan Is Not Dead
A Macedonian family from Bitola at the turn of the twentieth century tries to survive, preserve its roots and remain together.
![Movie - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Auteur Film Making](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/1kEhVSrQiZ1IG6tqfwIaEMgcfk1.jpg)
Movie - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Auteur Film Making
A filmmaker goes on the run rather than complete his latest picture in this offbeat comedy from Macedonian auteur Ivo Trajkov. A director (Trajkov) has grown weary of battling his producer for control of his latest project and decides to hit the road, borrowing his girlfriend's auto and stealing the production bankroll from the project's financiers. While at first the director claims to have a grand scheme for his ill-gotten gains, his plans take a serious left turn when he meets a strange young woman and an eccentric hitchhiker.
![Metamorphoses](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/AdzAOG094dnZjT4swZdrxTtZRQ9.jpg)
Metamorphoses
This is a time when we learn afresh that nothing lasts forever and that the variability is an integral part of everyday life. What is a river today does not mean that tomorrow will not become a sea. Life itself is one large metamorphosis, and the human being is its variable shape...
Amok
A group of problematic, abandoned teenagers from a Juvenile Adoption Centre share their destiny on the margins of the society, holding only on the teachings of their caring educator about the true values of life. But a series of tragic events that culminate with the death of one of the youngsters by the hand of a police inspector, will crush their illusions for a normal future in a world that stigmatizes them as outcasts. Incited by the awakening words of the broken educator and the emerging, ferocious leader of the pack, the boys take the p...
![Bibi, Bobby and a Snowish New Year](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/cD5pVYj13edrrDfGiuVhrBlFLve.jpg)
Bibi, Bobby and a Snowish New Year
Bibi, Zazi, mom Anna and dad Tino are getting ready to decorate the Christmas tree, and Bobby and Zina have come to visit. Someone makes cookies, someone performs magic tricks, cheerful songs are sung and... no one can imagine how much magic, surprises and most unusual friendships will bring this "snowish" New Year to Bibi and Bobby.
![Bibi and Bobby in Snowmanville](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/vVl8wrHQG5BIhfCvrVkUlv5uUfS.jpg)
Bibi and Bobby in Snowmanville
Bibi and Bobby travel with the snowman Gogo to Snowmanville to celebrate the New Year there. But Snowmanville is deserted and quiet. Where are all the snowmen? Why doesn't anyone celebrate the New Year?
The Little Love God
A well situated Macedonian doctor lives comfortably with his wife in Montenegro thanks to the money inherited from his parents. Suddenly, he faces with such unexpected reversals in life. His wife disappears without a trace, the bank where he keeps his money is bankrupt, the police confiscate his passport, and he’s being stalked by his wife’s father. Alone, abandoned and without help, he is taking a solitary journey.
![The Name of the People](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/3yhRs1TwJFXL4R6d2S80b6NiSgM.jpg)
The Name of the People
Life of Serbian patriot and intelectual Svetozar Miletic and his family in a fight to free Serbian people from Austria-Hungary.
![Menagerie](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/zpoP6Y8Lmo4FxpOFcv3cMCEtJEp.jpg)
Menagerie
"Menagerie" is a drama which takes place in the early 1990s, in one Serbian village near the coast of river Drina. It is a story about moral and historical breakdown of one country, located at a milieu separated from urban life, in an area that lives on specific rules and relationships between people. Srna, daughter of Strain, the most powerful man in the village, is promised for a wife to Jovan. Jovan is the son of a local forester Tadija, who, in return, allows Strain poaching and illegal cutting of village wood. Although there is attracti...