‘Before the Rain’ Director Milcho Manchevski on Tokyo Competition Title ‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover,’ Whistleblowing and the ‘Death of Beauty’ in Cinema

‘Before the Rain’ Director Milcho Manchevski on Tokyo Competition Title ‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover,’ Whistleblowing and the ‘Death of Beauty’ in Cinema hakkında magazin dünyasında yaşanan en son ayrıntılar ve sıcak gelişmeler netleşti. Oct 31, 2026 3:21pm PT ‘Before the Rain’ Director Milcho Manchevski on Tokyo Competition Title ‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover,’ Whistleblowing and the ‘Death of Beauty’ in Cinema By Naman Ramachandran Plus Icon Naman Ramachandran Latest Sanjay Gupta, Indian Director of ‘Kaante’ and ‘Zinda,’ Dies at 59 13 hours ago Sourav Ganguly’s ‘Bigg Boss Bangla’ Among Highlights as Indian Media Giant JioStar Revenues Climb 10% 16 hours ago How Keanu Reeves Landed in Stop-Motion Samurai Epic ‘Hidari’ – and Why S.S. Rajamouli Wanted to Know How It Was Made 18 hours ago See All Add us as a Google Preferred Source Comments Milcho Manchevski , the North Macedonian director whose 1994 debut “Before the Rain” won Venice’s Golden Lion and earned an Oscar nomination, is back in competition at the Tokyo International Film Festival with “ Sister Brother Manhole Cover ,” a project stalled for years after he accused his country’s film agency of corruption.

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The dark comedy centers on Malina and Viktor, a sister and brother getting by on the fringes of post-Communist Macedonia by pilfering busts of national heroes cast in bronze, along with manhole covers, and selling off the metal. When a job goes wrong and Viktor is seriously hurt, Malina cuts a deal with a crooked doctor.

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The siblings end up on the run, and eventually take shelter with the doctor’s wealthy mother, Todora, who is blind. Related Stories Cate Blanchett-Backed Group and Collection of Hollywood Stars File Brief in New York Times-OpenAI Lawsuit: Hollywood Has ‘Proven Infrastructure’ to License Content “I wanted to tell a story about a kind of love that is rarely at the center of films, yet it is so beautiful: the love between a brother and a sister,” Manchevski tells Variety .

“It can be fierce, complicated, sometimes painful, but also unconditional like no other type of love.” The director also took inspiration from traditional Macedonian songs about sisterly love, which he calls poignant and at times shocking. Of Malina and Viktor, he says: “They are far from ideal people.

But they are deserving of understanding and affection. I am interested in people as they are, with their contradictions, not as examples of how people should behave.

Idealized characters make for bad movies.” The siblings break the law and sometimes make terrible mistakes, but Manchevski says he had no wish to turn them into objects of pity. He sees the pair’s refusal to think of themselves as victims as a way of reclaiming their own story.

“Poverty is not picturesque. It is painful and dehumanizing,” he says.

“We should be careful not to romanticize it, or to pretend that people can simply overcome it through courage and good intentions. The circumstances that shape these lives are real, and they are political.” For Manchevski, the busts stand for the values a society claims to honor while it abandons people like Malina and Viktor.

“They would rather eat than venerate the past and the ideals,” he says. The manhole covers are a plainer matter: everyday infrastructure that turns into a hazard the moment it disappears.

Still, he adds, the covers “keep a lid on the ugliness of society, on its septic underground” until someone pries them loose. Manchevski says he follows the characters and story rather than picking a genre in advance.

“People can be in terrible circumstances and still be funny. They can be cruel and generous, ridiculous and moving,” he says.

“Life does not keep these things separate, so I don’t see why a film should.”

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