The Eurimages Co-production Prize is awarded to Labina Mitevska

Macedonian producer and actress Labina Mitevska will be awarded with this year’s Eurimages International Co-Production Award by Eurimages and the European Film Academy. Labina Mitevska is one of the founders of the family-run production company Sisters and Brother Mitevski Production based in Skopje, North Macedonia. Labina Mitevska will be an honorary guest of the gala for the 37th European Film Awards on 7 December in Lucerne to receive her award in person.

The jury says: “This prize is awarded to Labina Mitevska as a tribute to the talent of a family business passionately dedicated to European cinema. It rewards the craftmanship of high-quality independent cinema achieved through numerous outstanding international co-productions that are the pride of the Eurimages Fund.”

The siblings Labina, Teona and Wolf successfully launched their company in 2001. Labina is a highly acclaimed actress from the Balkan region, starting her career in Milcho Manczewski’s Before the Rain (1994), awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice and nominated for an Academy Award. At Sisters and Brother Mitevski Labina is managing director and producer, her sister Teona is director and her brother Vuk, a painter and sculptor, is working as set designer and animator.

Labina Mitevska has co-produced films such as her sister’s films I Am from Titov Veles [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]selected in Berlinale’s Panorama and Toronto’s Discovery, among other festivals, released in 15 countries and winner of over 20 awards; The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tearsalso selected in Berlinale’s Panorama and shown at more than 40 festivals; When the Day Had No Name [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]also selected in Berlinale’s Panorama; God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]selected in Berlinale’s competition, where it won the Ecumenical Jury Prize, before winning 30 international awards, including the European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award; The Happiest Man in the World [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]premiered in Venice’s Orizzonti and Toronto’s Contemporary World Cinema strands, and winner of more than a dozen international awards; and 21 Days Until the End of the World [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]the company’s latest film, premiering at last year’s Venice Giornate degli Autori. As minority co-producer she was involved in Sierra Nevada [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] by Pjer Zalicaamong others. In 2024 Labina Mitevska is currently working on In Duna‘s Skateboarding Is Not for Girlsdeveloped at Cannes’ Cinéfondation, and Motherher sister’s new film, starring Noomi Rapace.

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