The Philosophical Film Festival (FFF), which nurtures and promotes the intellectual, philosophical-aesthetic dimension of the seventh art, will be held this year from June 2 to 9 at the Cinematheque of North Macedonia.

Within the framework of the 13th edition of the FFF, about 40 films are scheduled to be shown, 50 events will be held, there will be 18 guests and 24 participants at the Second International Conference "Philosophy and Film".

- This festival edition, as before, will offer a rich film program of contemporary film productions, as well as film classics, which we hope will be a sufficient provocation for visitors and film lovers, and especially in the philosophical dimension of the seventh art - points out the director of the festival, Ana Dishlieska Mitova.

The festival opening will be preceded by a musical performance by Filip Bukrshliev and Andrea Mirceska, emissaries of the New Macedonian wave of jazz music. After their performance, the film "Unchristened Days" by Ivo Trajkov, who will be a guest at the festival, will be premiered, and a Q&A session will be held after the screening.

Apart from Trajkov, one of the greatest European directors and screenwriters of today, Krzysztof Zanussi from Poland, winner of the "Golden Lion" in Venice (1984), awarded in Cannes, Locarno, Berlin, Montreal, Tokyo, will be a guest at the festival. Zanussi is one of the 40 founding members of the European Film Academy, headed by Ingmar Bergman.

His latest film "The Perfect Number" (2022) will be shown at the festival. The film will be shown in the competition program in competition for the "Golden Owl" award from the expert jury and the audience for the best feature film. The latest film by world-renowned director Krzysztof Zanussi returns to some of the most significant themes from this author's previous film work, but this time structured through the unexpected form of an intellectual thriller.

The motto of this year's FFF is "Everything is film, plural", and is inspired by the great French New Wave film great Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022).

The festival is organized by the Philosophical Society of Macedonia and will be held with the support of the Film Agency and the Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the Cinematheque, the Faculty of Philosophy at UKIM in Skopje, the Embassy of the Kingdom of Spain in Skopje, the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Skopje, MEDIA Desk Mk, the Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as numerous other long-time collaborators and friends of the festival.