Housekeeping for Beginners

Dita’s stately old house in the hills of Skopje is the unlikely home to a wild group of queer people, among them her moody friend Toni and his new, much younger boyfriend Ali. When her partner Suada is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the emotionally removed Dita is forced to promise she will raise Suada’s two girls – cheeky little Mia and temperamental, increasingly rebellious teen Vanesa. Dita doesn’t want to be a mother and the girls don’t want to be her daughters. But to save this patchwork family Dita has to act quickly and maybe even marry the only available man around. Goran Stolevski's fiction film explores the possibilities of love and family beyond classic gender images and kinship, in the midst of a queer-hostile and racist society.

Director, Screenplay & Editing: Goran Stolevski ● Cinematography: Naum Doksevski ● Cast: Anamaria Marinca, Alina Șerban, Samson Selim, Mia Mustafa, Vladimir Tintor, Dzada Selim ● Production Design: Anna Rzeźniczek ● Costume Design: Roza Trajceska Ristovska ● Sound On Set: Zoran Maksimovic ● Sound Design: Emma Bortignon ● Music / Composer: Alen Sinkauz, Nenad Sinkauz ● Production companies: List Production, Madants, Kinorama, Sense Production, Industria Film ● In co-production with: Film i Väst, Common Ground Pictures, Causeway Films ● In association with: Tango Entertainment, New Europe Film Sales, Adelaide Film Festival ● Producers: Marija Dimitrova, Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Ankica Jurić Tilić, Beata Rzeźniczek, Milan Stojanovic, Blerta Basholli ● Co-producers: Kristina Börjeson, Jonas Kellagher, Kristina Ceyton, Sam Jennings ● Executive Producers: Tim Headington, Lia Buman, Ana Leocha, Marcin Łuczaj, Jan Naszewski,Anthony Muir, Rebecka Beckman

Director: Delaine Le Bas ● Camera: Lincoln Cato, Delaine Le Bas, Hera Santos ● Editor: Laszlo Farkas ● Sound: Justin Langlands ● Music: Laszlo Farkas Mixing of Original Sound & Justin Langlands ● Cast: Delaine Le Bas, Hera Santos ● Producer: Delaine Le Bas