AroView: Winner of an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, this fetching coming-of-age romance offers a peek into village life in contemporary North Macedonia.

It is both light and serious in reflecting the absurdity and heartbreak of the generation gap for a young man feeling his way into adulthood with his adorable mute brother and widowed father. He’s saddled with subsistence living, tractor farming and religion in an age of the internet and global music culture, while facing the eternal struggle of boy meets girl without experience or a penny to his name.

“A revelation in that it seamlessly straddles the line between laugh-out-loud crowd-pleaser and art-house gem with affecting gravitas.” ~Carlos Aguilar, Variety

“Revelling in bright fabrics and seductive horizons, the director, despite all the conflicts, is here to argue for both the warmth of traditional families and the excitement of contemporary youth culture.” ~Donald Clarke, The Irish Times

“Unkovski’s film may be singing from a familiar hymn sheet, but he makes that part of its charm.” ~Amber Wilkinson, Screen Daily