About
Milcho Manchevski’s new film Good People had its world premiere on August 16, 2026 in the Documentary Competition at the 32. Sarajevo Film Festival.
Praise for GOOD PEOPLE:
“The Golden Lion-winner’s self-funded requiem is a strikingly spare and harrowing portrait of social collapse... Strikingly austere and undecorated film... Against expectation, the film eschews neat narratives about survival and heroism. The result is a haunting portrait of social collapse whose power is premised on the words and faces of survivors.” (Variety)
“А meditation on grief and survival... Extraordinary emotional weight” (ICS Film)
“Suspense worthy of the best fiction.” (Modern Times)
“Actually, I lack words to write about this documentary by Macedonian master Manchevski… It’s a film that stayed with me because of the way it is made… Empathy and Love. Thank you! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ (Filmkommentaren)
“A film of remarkable restraint. Milcho Manchevski is one of the filmmakers whose work is precisely why cinema deserves to be called the seventh art.” (Vintage Café)
“Good People is a turning point – a kind of conceptual matrix – in the creation of contemporary Macedonian culture of memory… Delicate artistic expression, free of bombast and extraneous noise.” (SDK)
“An unflinching meditation on grief, survival, and the stubborn grace of human connection.” (Cineuropa)
Films
Good People
Good People honors both the truth of lived experience and the spoken word in its raw form, venerating speech as though it were literature…
Sister Brother Manhole Cover
Sister Brother Manhole Cover is a social thriller-comedy about a brother and sister who steal busts throughout Skopje, Macedonia’s capital.
Before the Rain
Set against the background of political turbulence in Macedonia and contemporary London, three love stories intertwine to create a powerful portrait of modern Europe…