26th Skopje Film Festival Ends With Best Film for No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman and Best Director for Holtai
Skopje — The 26th Skopje Film Festival ended on Monday night, November 9. North Macedonia's state news agency MIA reported that Norwegian-Kurdish filmmaker Halkawt Mustafa's No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman (2026) won best film.
Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Holtai won the best director award for Feels Like Home (2025). The festival also gave special prizes to French filmmaker Vincent Garenq's Forsaken (2026) and to Filipino filmmaker Lawrence Fajardo's Silenced Nights (2026). All the winning films competed in the festival's Dialogues category.
An international jury chose the winners. The panel included English producer Steve Abbott, German festival organizer Daniela Weber, Serbian screenwriter and director Pavle Vučković, Macedonian screenwriter and director Darijan Pejovski and Macedonian actress and producer Labina Mitevska.
This year marked the debut of the Golden Scopolia Award for Outstanding Contribution to World Cinema, named after a rare local plant. Polish director Małgorzata Szumowska and Polish cinematographer Michał Englert received the first award during opening night. Founded in 1998, the festival draws between 6,000 and 10,000 visitors each year in addition to many film industry workers, organizers said, and this edition also hosted three film workshops.
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