Films from Eastern and Southeastern Europe were a focal point of the program at the 52nd International Film Festival Wuerzburg. This focus also produced this year’s audience favorites: “DJ Ahmet” (North Macedonia) and “Made in EU” (Bulgaria) both won the audience award with the same result.
“DJ Ahmet” was also the opening film and the most-watched film at the festival. Anyone who still hasn’t had a chance to see it now has another opportunity. Director Georgi M. Unkovski’s debut, which has won awards at many festivals, will be released in German cinemas on March 19, including at the Central arthouse cinema in Wuerzburg’s Bürgerbräu.
And there’s more: director Georgi M. Unkovski will be coming to Wuerzburg for the premiere to personally accept the audience award from our Film Festival. Filminitiative Wuerzburg is delighted about the visit and the opportunity to revive the Festival atmosphere at the Central cinema a few weeks after the festival ended.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Georgi M. Unkovski will be available for discussions with the audience and the press from 6:30 p.m. The film starts at 7 p.m. Tickets cost €12, concessions €10; tickets can now be reserved via the Central cinema in the Bürgerbräu (see here).
The cinema ticket also serves as admission to the Bukovina Balkan Party, which the film initiative is organizing to mark the premiere – supported and co-organized by Midlife-Club e.V. Those who only want to attend the party pay an admission fee of €5. Registration is required at the email address bukovina@filmwochenende.de. The party will take place in the basement next to the cinema.
About the content of the film: “DJ Ahmet” shows in an amusing but also serious way the culture clash experienced by a boy from a remote village in North Macedonia when he meets a rebellious girl of the same age from Germany.
About the film: “‘DJ Ahmet’ scores with an enormously likeable protagonist and a humor that finely dissects the clash between tradition and modernity, while still taking the real problems in the remote mountain village seriously.” (Ulf Lempelmeier, Filmstarts.de)
By the way: Today, March 5, the winner of the audience award at the 51st International Film Festival in 2025 is also being released in German cinemas: “Nawi.” The Kenyan-German film is about a 13-year-old girl who is to be married to a much older man.