DJ Ahmet
The mission of the Centre d'art et essai de la Cinémathèque québécoise (CAECQ) is to primary program Quebec-made documentaries and independent fiction, as well as international documentaries, animated and foreign films, while encouraging opportunities for meetings between the public and the artists. Its programming is presented in conjunction with the Cinémathèque québécoise’s under the label New releases.
Winner of two awards, including the Audience Award, 2025 Sundance Film Festival
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
Georgi M. Unkovski
Georgi M. Unkovski is a Macedonian award winning writer and director, whose work has been featured at over 200 international film festivals, HBO and MTV. Born in 1988 in New York, he graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology - Eastman’s School of Photography, in the field of the Fine Arts. Shortly after his graduation he moved to the Czech Republic to pursue his passion in filmmaking and enrolled in the post graduate program at renowned university of FAMU in Prague. Since his studies Unkovski lives in Skopje, Macedonia and works as a full time director for one of the leading advertising agencies in the country - FUTURA 2/2 and Cinema Futura - a local production house dedicated to making films. Unkovski is a Sundance Alumni and hislast short film Sticker (2019) has won over 50 International Awards. DJ Ahmet (2025) is his first feature film.
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