Country: Macedonia
Year: 2000
Duration: 14'
A country road in the Balkans. A bus with seven people aboard is heading towards the border. One of the passengers is Alek, a young man who was recently released from a prison camp. Elena, the bus driver, picked him along the road. Alek would like to use the toilet, but it is occupied. He waits a while, but to no avail. The young man starts to become nervous and transmits his nervousness to the other passengers.
"During the NATO bombing raids in 1990, the myth was born of a bus which traveled from Skopje to Belgrade every day. In Veta there is a similar bus, but we aren't referring to that story. This is just my answer to the horrors which have occurred in the Balkans over the last 10 years" (Teona Strugar Mitveska).
Biography
film director
Teona Strugar Mitevska
Teona Strugar Mitevska was born in Skopje in 1973. She studied at the Institute of Art in Philadelphia and began working as a graphic artist in advertising; she was awarded a prize at the Advertising Festival of Cannes. In 1998, she enrolled in cinema courses at the University of New York and began directing her first short films. At present, she is working on The Father of the Modern Terrorism, her debut full-length movie.
FILMOGRAFIA
Why Is Betty Boop Angry (cm, 1998), Amer in Amerika (doc., 1998), Veta (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Maja Milanovic, Teona Strugar Mitevska.
Director of photography: Vlatko Samoilovski.
Art director: Michael Byrnes.
Costume designer: Michael Byrnes, Tanja Strugar Mitevska.
Editor: Jessica Sharzer, Rohan Sen.
Sound: Toni Adzinikolov.
Music: SAF.
Cast and characters: Katerina Kocevska (Elena), Biljana Dragicevic (Elvira), Rubens Muratovski (Alek), Vlado Jovanovski (Sasa), Petar Temelkovski (Boris), Jana Lulovska (Mia).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Vladimir Anastasov, Labina Mitevska per Sisters and Brothers Mitevski Production, F. Ruzvelt 4/38, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, tel. +389-2-119496, fax +389-2-125496, e-mail bonbonce@hotmail.com.
Co-production: Sky is the Limit/Skopje International Film Festival.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Maja Milanovic, Teona Strugar Mitevska.
Director of photography: Vlatko Samoilovski.
Art director: Michael Byrnes.
Costume designer: Michael Byrnes, Tanja Strugar Mitevska.
Editor: Jessica Sharzer, Rohan Sen.
Sound: Toni Adzinikolov.
Music: SAF.
Cast and characters: Katerina Kocevska (Elena), Biljana Dragicevic (Elvira), Rubens Muratovski (Alek), Vlado Jovanovski (Sasa), Petar Temelkovski (Boris), Jana Lulovska (Mia).
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Vladimir Anastasov, Labina Mitevska per Sisters and Brothers Mitevski Production, F. Ruzvelt 4/38, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, tel. +389-2-119496, fax +389-2-125496, e-mail bonbonce@hotmail.com.
Co-production: Sky is the Limit/Skopje International Film Festival.