13th International Film Festival Asterfest kicks off

The opening ceremony of the 13th International Film Festival “Asterfest” will kick off Monday evening in Cultural Centre “Anton Panov” in Strumica by presentation of awards to festival’s laureates Jackie Sheppard and Kole Angelovski.


The festival held under the motto “Between Fact and Fiction” will last until June 30.

The festival’s programme of short, documentary and fiction films are included in the categories: Animotion, Global Fiction, Star Documents, Movieland, Merry-Diones, Tributes and Oberhausen on Tour.

The films I am Sami, fiction by Kae Bahar, UK/Iraq, 2014, Joe’s Violin, Kahane Cooperman’s documentary, Sing by Kristof Deak from Hungary, as well as Borrowed Time film by Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj will be screened on Monday.

The international jury including Natalja Althauser (Germany), Elena Melloncelli (Italy) and Srdjan Fink (Netherlands) will declare the festival’s winners.