Labina Mitevska
Acting
Biography
Labina Mitevska (Macedonian: Лабина Митевска) (born 1975 in Skopje, Socialist Republic of Macedonia, Yugoslavia) is a Macedonian actress. Mitevska began her acting career aged 19 after studying in Skopje, Denmark and the University of Arizona. She starred in Milčo Mančevski's 1994 Oscar nominated film Before the Rain. She went on to play the supporting role in Welcome To Sarajevo, directed by Michael Winterbottom, and had the lead role in the Czech film Samotáři (Loners). She also played the lead role in the 2006 film Warchild.
Born: October 11, 1975
Place of Birth: Skopje, SR Macedonia, SFRY
Known For
Half-Sister
Half-sisters from a small coastal town who were never that close are forced by circumstance to share a flat in Ljubljana.
Footsteps in the Sand
At the airport, Slavi tells his life's story to a young customs officer. As children, Nelly promises Slavi to marry him. The two teenagers are passionately in love with each other but after some time Nelly falls in love with another guy. Slavi takes up drinking and gets into trouble with the Bulgarian militia (police) because of his family background. This is when he decides to defect to the West. After staying at a refugee camp in Austria and another desperate love, he sets out to the United States. There Slavi makes some new friends who help him buy a truck. He hits the roads of America, where he comes across an Indian who sells him an arrow. The vender tells him this amulet will bring his love back. Eventually, Slavi comes back to Bulgaria, where communism has collapsed. His beloved Nelly lives alone with her daughter. One day Slavi meets her again...
Before the Rain
The circularity of violence seen in a story that circles on itself. In Macedonia, during the war in Bosnia, Christians hunt an ethnic Albanian girl who may have murdered one of their own. A young monk who's taken a vow of silence offers her protection. In London, a photographic editor who's pregnant needs to talk it out with her estranged husband and chooses a toney restaurant.
Loners
Robert works for a travel agency and helps to arrange scenes from the everyday lives of "ordinary" Czech families as an attraction for Japanese tourists. He also works as a kind of matchmaker and occasionally helps to put together some of his friends. He helps to separate his friend Hanka from Peter, an announcer for an independent radio station who tries to capture "real" life by recording the moments from "reality" and playing them over the air. Vesna, came to Prague from Macedonia because it is according to her the best place for UFOs to land, but her real reason for coming is somewhat different... Hanka is followed by the crazy Ondrej, until then a respected brain surgeon, and married with two kids. Through him she meets Jacob, who uses copious amounts of weed in order to be constructive in this gloomy world. On the other hand, this destroys his short-term memory - and he forgets that he already has a girlfriend...
May Labor Day
After ten years in Germany, Armin returns to Bosnia. He just got married and wants to surprise his father, but he is not home. Neighbours say that he has been arrested, nobody knows why. The papers say that he is a suspect for the war crime back in the 90s. Armin wants to learn the truth and the neighbourhood to celebrate May Labor Day.
The Happiest Man in the World
Asja, a 45-year-old single woman living in Sarajevo, meets Zoran, a 46-year-old banker, at a dating event. Zoran is not there looking for love though, but for forgiveness. During the war in 1993 he was shooting at the city from the opposite side, and he wants to meet his first victim. Now, they both have to relive the pain in their search for forgiveness.
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
In Stip, a small town in Macedonia, every January the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men dive after it. Good fortune and prosperity are guaranteed to the man who retrieves it. This time, Petrunya dives into the water on a whim and manages to grab the cross before the others. Her competitors are furious - how dare a woman take part in their ritual? All hell breaks loose, but Petrunya holds her ground. She won her cross and will not give it up.
Contact
A Romantic Drama with humor about two different Misfits who meet by accident in an old devastated Villa and step by step discover their feelings for each other...You must see this picture...
A Mermaid in Paris
A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.
Bugs
What becomes of a young man who lives entirely in his own world? Melancholy and powerful images bring back memories from the boy's past while revealing his contemplation on the present.
Filmography
as Sister Mercedes
as Marta
as Diba
as Emergency doctor
as Ardita
as Journalist Slavica
as Dana
as Milan's Stepmother
as Deyan's Mother
as Yoana
as Milena
as Eva
as Maya
as Afrodita
as Woman in White
as Senada
as Zana
as Sanja K.
as Viola
as Kyalja Tesch
as Vesna
as Smokey
as Zamira