Dita’s stately old house in the hills of Skopje is the unlikely home to a wild group of queer people, among them her moody friend Toni and his new, much younger boyfriend Ali. When her partner Suada is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the emotionally removed Dita is forced to promise she will raise Suada’s two girls – cheeky little Mia and temperamental, increasingly rebellious teen Vanesa. Dita doesn’t want to be a mother and the girls don’t want to be her daughters. But to save this patchwork family Dita has to act quickly and maybe even marry the only available man around.
Housekeeping for Beginners
Domakinstvo za pocetnici
Screening Schedule
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- Direction: Goran Stolevski
- Script: Goran Stolevski
- Cinematography: Naum Doksevski
- Editing: Goran Stolevski
- Sound: Emma Bortignon, Zoran Maksimovic
- Music: Alen Sinkauz, Nenad Sinkauz
- Actors: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim, Mia Mustafa, Vladimir Tintor, Dzada Selim
- Production: List Production, Madants, Kinorama, Sense Production, Industria Film
- Producers: Marija Dimitrova, Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Ankica Jurić Tilić, Beata Rzeźniczek, Milan Stojanovic, Blerta Basholli
- Co-production: Film i Väst, Common Ground Pictures, Causeway Films
- Co-producers: Kristina Börjeson, Jonas Kellagher, Kristina Ceyton, Sam Jennings
- Costumes: Roza Trajceska Ristovska
- Production Design: Anna Rzeźniczek
- Executive producer: Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Ana Leocha, Marcin Łuczaj, Jan Naszewski, Anthony Muir, Rebecka Beckman
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: North Macedonia, Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Kosovo*
- Production Year: 2023
- Duration: 107'
- Contact: Park Circus
- Awards/Distinctions: Queer Lion – Venice IFF 2023, Best International Narrative Feature – New York LGBT FF 2023, Best Film, Best Screenplay – Madrid LGBT IFF 2023, Best Feature Film – IQFF Merlinka 2023, Special Mention – ICFF Manaki Brothers 2023, Silver Q-Hugo – Chicago IFF 2023, Aurora Award – Tromsø IFF 2024
* This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSC Resolution 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
Goran Stolevski
Goran was born and grew up in North Macedonia before migrating to Australia in his teens. His debut feature, You Won't Be Alone, premiered in the official competition of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, while his second, Of an Age, opened the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival before winning the $100,000 CinefestOΖ Prize for Best Australian Film. Both films were distributed internationally by Focus Features and Universal. Before shifting to features, Goran had made twenty-five shorts, playing over 200 festivals worldwide, with Would You Look at Her winning the Jury Prize for Best International Short at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and being selected for the Criterion Channel. Goran completed a Bachelor in Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne and a Master's in Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts.
Filmography
2015 Everything We Wanted (short)
2017 Would You Look at Her (short)
2018 My Boy Oleg (short)
2022 You Won’t Be Alone
2022 Of an Age
2023 Housekeeping for Beginners
2017 Would You Look at Her (short)
2018 My Boy Oleg (short)
2022 You Won’t Be Alone
2022 Of an Age
2023 Housekeeping for Beginners
