ICFF Manaki Brothers: International Cinematographers' Festival

The International Cinematographers Film Festival "Manaki Brothers" (known in short as Manaki Film Festival) is an annual international film festival organized by the Macedonian Film Professionals Association (MFPA). The festival is held in Bitola, the town where most of the activities of the Aromanian brothers Yanaki and Milton Manaki were organized. They were the filmmakers, who in 1905 filmed in Avdela the first motion pictures in the Ottoman Balkans. The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Macedonia and the President of North Macedonia. The main award of the festival is the Golden Camera 300 that is given to the best cinematographer in the Narrative Fiction Film competition program, by the festival's International jury. The Manaki Film Festival is hosted at the Big Hall of the Center of Culture, located in the center of Bitola, and it has been attended in the past by celebrities as Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Julliette Binoche, Aleksei Serebryakov, Bruno Ganz, Claudia Cardinale.