Crossing Europe

Housekeeping For Beginners

1 hr. 47 min. | Drama | N-16

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The house of Dita, in the hills of Skopje, North Macedonia, is a makeshift refuge for a motley crew of queer people. When her girlfriend falls terminally ill, the aloof Dita is forced to promise she will raise her partner’s two reluctant daughters. But to save this patchwork family, she must marry the nearest available man due to the country’s legal position on same-sex marriage and adoption. Visually gripping and powerfully acted, Housekeeping For Beginners is a chaotic and remarkably tender portrait of a found family and the powerful ties that bind those pushed to the margins of society.

Goran Stolevski

Goran Stolevski

Goran Stolevski had won the Rouben Mamoulian Award for the Best Director for You Deserve Everything, and participated in the prestigious Berlinale Talent Campus initiative. His feature debut You Won't Be Alone premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, where his short Would You Look at Her also won an award. Housekeeping for Beginners is his second feature film.
Languages
Macedonian, Romanian, Albanian
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Original title
Domakinstvo za Pocetnici
Produced
2023: Sweden, Poland, Serbia, Croatia

Film information

Director
Goran Stolevski
Producers
Blerta Basholli, Marija Dimitrova, Ankica Juric Tilic, Beata Rzezniczek, Klaudia Smieja, Milan Stojanovic
Screenplay
Goran Stolevski
Music
Alen Sinkauz, Nenad Sinkauz
Cinematography
Naum Doksevski
Cast
Anamaria Marinca, Alina Serban, Samson Selim, Vladimir Tintor, Dzada Selim
More information
www.imdb.com

Screenings

Monday, 13 November

16:30

Forum Cinemas Vingis · 11

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Wednesday, 15 November

16:00

Forum Cinemas Vingis · 11

Past screening

Thursday, 16 November

16:40

Forum Cinemas Kaune · 4

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