Sundance World Dramatic Competition Selection ‘DJ Ahmet’ Boarded For Sales By Films Boutique
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Films Boutique has picked up international sales rights to Georgi M. Unkovski’s feature debut DJ Ahmet, which has just been selected to world premiere in Sundance’s World Dramatic Competition.
The North Macedonian writer-director will return to Park City where his short film Sticker premiered in 2020. The Turkish and Macedonian-language film follows Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, who finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
Pic is a coproduction between North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Croatia. Starring are Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Dora Akan Zlatanova, Aksel Mehmet, Selpin Kerim, Atila Klince.
Producers are Ivan Unkovski, Ivana Shekutkoska. Co-producers are Michal Kracmer, Veronika Kuhrova, Igor Kecman, Jelena Mitrovic, Katarina Prpic, Vladimir Anastasov and Angela Nestorovska.
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