Cape Town World Cinema Festival

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Feature Films

Bel can can

Bal Can Can

Serbo-Croatian & Italian 86min Macedonia/Italy 2005 35mm
Directed by Darko Mitrevski

This thrillingly dark, madcap comedy is a road movie through the Balkans in search of a carpet; a carpet with a dead granny rolled inside.

As civil war rages in Macedonia, Trendafil (Jovanoski) decides to escape army enlistment by skipping the country. And so, one hot day, he packs his wife Rua (Angelovska) and her nasty mother Zumbula (Sablic) in the car, and drives for neighbouring Bulgaria. But, when Zumbula dies of heat exhaustion, Trendafil must make a choice. Either become embroiled in a foreign country's bureaucracy, or wrap Granny in a carpet. When he does the latter, the carpet is stolen. He calls Santino (Margiotta), the son of his father's blood brother, and together they follow the carpet's trail through the underground crime of the Balkans.

Courtesy of Minerva Films

Starring:

Vlado Jovanoski, Adolfo Margiotta, Branko Djuric, Nikola Kojo, Zvezda Angelovska, Jelisaveta Sablic

  • Sunday 13 Nov 9:30 pm Artscape
  • Monday 14 Nov 9:00 pm Labia
  • Sunday 20 Nov 2:25 pm Labia

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