The coronavirus briefly put the club on hold, but this small and open film company continues to operate. The location for the informal creative film studio, called the Debate Film Club, is the pocket cinema in MKC. And it's not just for movie buffs who enjoy glazed movie aesthetics, for those who write or read movie reviews, but for any casual traveler who wants to see a movie they might never have seen, or maybe I would watch it, but I had no chance. The titles are chosen on occasion.

In order to fulfill the rule "everything is when there is everything", the Debate Film Club invites directors, actors, professors, translators… Immediately after the screening follows a short debate about the screened film. And the motto is simple. "Make up for lost time." The directors in the "repertoire" are characters who "verified" the film stories with a mature authorial stamp. They come from different parts of Europe, have different film poetics, different genres and styles, and some are "out of genre competition", so it is difficult to classify them into types and subspecies. And that is exactly what is often discussed in the Debate Film Club.

It is not uncommon to conclude that contemporary film generally relies more and more on technological innovation and loses some of its narrative quintessence and authorial signature. The selection of films in the Debate Film Club is a kind of return to the values ​​of films from recent history. It is a screening of films that are, in a way, somewhat special. Is it the ticklish theme, the seductive film aesthetics and shooting technique, the unpretentiousness of the approach and the unpretentiousness, or are these the films behind the directors with a baked craft?… It is a question of the repertoire, which is almost regularly marked thematically. But one thing is certain: the director's approach to art has spawned memorable films.

"A Love Story" is followed by "Baghdad Cafe", "Pauline at the beach", "The Go-Between", "Women in love" and "The Cranes are flying"

So it will be in the coming months. In October, November and December and this season will be seen and debated six films by European directors who have made an incredible synthesis of their own love for film, but also love as an inevitable film theme. The opening has already taken place with "A Love Story" by Swedish film surrealist magician Roy Anderson, who is one of the few directors who, according to film chronicles, is the first Nordic author to win a Golden Lion after that of Dane Carl Theodor Dreer. in the distant 1955.

Five more "heavyweights" follow, such as Percy Adlon with 1987 Bagdad Cafe and Pauline at the Beach by French director Eric Romer. The list also includes "The Go-Between," written by Harold Pinter and directed by Joseph Lowe, followed by "Women in Love" by Ken Russell. The season ends with the Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov and the cult "The cranes are flying". These are six different stories on the same topic that the authors of the films look at from different angles and with different directorial "binoculars".

How domestic filmmakers, directors, actors, writers, professors, translators see them, remains to be heard after the screenings. This season, several Macedonian directors have been invited to tell their stories about the screened films. If you want to be a part of this movie story in which you "make up for lost time", and you have the opportunity to hear what others think about it, write the following date: October 27 at 20 pm, pocket cinema at MKC.