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MITKO PANOV * 1963 in Skopje. Joint Swiss and Macedonian citizenship. Mitko Panov studied directing at Lodz Film School and was teaching film at Tisch School of the Arts, HFF and at the University of Texas in Austin. His short WITH RAISED HANDS (1985) won the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at the Festival de Cannes. His last feature film THE WAR IS OVER (2009), a Swiss-Macedonian coproduction, was awarded as Best Balkan Film at Tirana International Film Festival.
SWITZERLAND / MACEDONIA / WORLD RIGHTS: IRELAND / CROATIA Tipi’mages Productions sàrl, Fiction, 113 min. Geneva ORIGINAL LANGUAGES: T +41 22 735 41 18 English, Serbian, Croatian tipimages.ch CAST: Bruno Ganz, Padraic Delaney, Gary Whelan, Natasa Petrovic, Marthe Keller, Refet Abazi, Velibor Topic, Emir Hadzihafizbegovic PRODUCTION: Tipi’mages Productions sàrl, Geneva / Pirej Film dooel, Skopje / Samson Films, Dublin / MP Filmska Produkcija, Zagreb / RTS / Teleclub
Fiction
At the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Colonel Pantic is accused and charged with crimes against humanity, but no one dares to testify against him. Vince Harrington, a young officer of the court, decides to go to Ex-Yugoslavia in search of the only man capable of confronting the colonel, former General Nikola Radin. Contrary to his expectations, the journey will turn into a fierce manhunt in the Balkan Mountains.
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by Mitko Panov