Ana Kostovska

Described by its director as "a highly emotional story, a tragedy right from its start that aims to get right to the stomach of the spectator, I Am from Titov Veles is set in contemporary Macedonia, where three sisters, the man-crazy Sapho, her twin, the reticent Afrodita, and the ex-addict Slavica, fight against the norms but also long to be a part of them, struggling to find their places as women... (iksv.org)

At the very beginning of the WWI, Filip, the principal of a gymnasium in a small Serbian town, is summoned urgently to Belgrade. He has no one to leave his wife Lea with. She is a young Slovenian woman, a teacher of rhythmics and dance. Azem, an illiterate, patriarchal Albanian, the school custodian, gives Filip his solemn oath, his 'Besa' that he would look after Lea. While the war rages in the background, their interaction develops from hatred, through an unusual friendship. (imdb)