THE LESSONS: MILCHO MANCHEVSKI’S ADVENTURES IN FILMMAKING

"Before the Rain plays with time in the most poetic way. It talks about love, war and our broken countries. Manchevski captures in the most cinematic way the feeling of being an outsider, of belonging and not belonging to a place, and of trying to find a way to exist, to be."                      —Galerie curator Annemarie Jacir

Director Milcho Manchevski has been around the cinematic block: an Academy Award–nominated debut feature (Before the Rain, the first film from a newly independent North Macedonia to earn a nomination); an award-winning music video for Arrested Development; an episode of The Wire; handfuls of short-form explorations; and a stint as the head of directing studies at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Film program. These days he’s nearing production on his eighth feature film.

We’ll explore the making of Before the Rain and the biggest lessons the seasoned artist has learned—and taught—over the course of his 31 years navigating the American and European film industries.