Sektor Movies | Upside Down is about strange quirk of fate

Original Title - PREVRTENO
Director - Igor Ivanov
Producer - Vladimir Anastasov, Igor Nola
Co Producer – Milko Josifov
Production Companies - SEKTOR FILM, Macedonia; MAINFRAME, Croatia;
GLOBAL FILM INITIATIVE, USA; CINEARS, Serbia
Screenplay - Venko Andonovski, Igor Ivanov
Based Upon The Novel By - Venko Andonovski; "Navel of the World"
Cinematographer - Tomi Salkovski
Music - Zoran Spasovski
Art Directors - Ivan Bartling, Igor Toshevski
Editor - Igor Andreevski
Costume Designer – Blanka Budak
Make-up Artist - Radmila Todorovic
Sound Designer - Nenad Vukadinovic
Genre - Drama
Format - 35mm
Running time - 105’
Official website - www.prevrteno.com.mk

Jan - Milan Tocinovski
Lucija - Sanja Trajkovic
Pavel - Slavisha Kajevski
Petar - Nikola Ristanovski
Zhuzhu - Ines Bojanic

The Phys - Jordan Simonov
Ina - Elena Serafimovich
The Boss - Jovica Mihajlovski
Kiosk Lady - Marija Kondovska
Director of the Circus - Gjorgji Jolevski

Hideous corners of the city, scenes without a trace of sophistication, depressing enclosed spaces – this is the setting chosen for the desperate life drama of young Jan Ludvik. Its individual chapters are recalled as retrospectives by Jan himself as he travels in a train hurtling through the darkening landscape, in the company of a random female passenger whose miserable exterior renders her the embodiment of the bleakest of destinies.

Jan was a gifted student and, by some strange quirk of fate, also a talented circus artist, but the world in which he lives drives him only to self-destructive actions. Everything is marked by degradation, even love, for which cheap porn clubs are often an eloquent stage, and whose object is a palpably degenerate girl; several scenes are deliberately set in dingy, graffiti-covered urinals. Upside Down presents a modernised version of the film expressionism of the past; in this case, the wasted life of an individual forms a parallel to the disintegration engulfing society as a whole, a society which lacks spiritual horizons.

- EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL, Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest, Romania (7 – 17 May 2009), Official Competition

- 42. KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Czech Republic, (29 June- 7 July 2007), Official Competition - “East of the West” Program Section;

- 9.MOTOVUN FILM FESTIVAL, Motovun, Croatia (23 -27 July 2007), Main Programme;

- 28.INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL “MANAKI BROTHERS“, Bitola, Macedonia, (25 -30 September 2007), Opening Film;

- 34.FLANDERS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Ghent, Belgium (9 - 20 October 2007), World Cinema Competition;

- 28.MOSTRA DE VALENCIA CINEMA OF MEDITERRANI- Valencia, Spain (16 -24 October 2007), Official Section, Award for Best Director;

- 31.SAO PAOLO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Sao Paolo, Brazil, (19 October - 1 November 2007), New Filmmakers Competition;

- 21.BRAUNSCHWEIG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Braunschweig, Germany (6-11 November 2007), Competition for European First and Second Films “THE HEINRICH“;

- 48.INTERNATIONAL THESSALONIKI FILM FESTIVAL - Thessaloniki, Greece, (16 - 25 November 2007) Section Balkan Survey;

- 31.CAIRO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Cairo, Egypt (27 November - 7 December 2007), The International Feature Films Competition;

- 1. MACEDONIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN LONDON, UK – London UK (29 April - 5 May 2008) Screened as a Representative Movie from Republic of Macedonia;

- 1.INTERNATIONAL SUMMERFEST FILM OF DURRES, Albania, (24 – 31 August 2008), International Film Competition;

- 14.AYE AYE FILM FESTIVAL - Nancy, France (31 August – 9 September 2008), Section Orient Express;

- 4.MOVEAST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL PECZ - Hungary (7 - 14 October 2008), Special Mention Award of the Jury;

- EASTERN NEIGHBOURS FILM FESTIVAL (6-9 November 2008) Section IN FOCUS Macedonian Cinematography;

- MACEDONIAN FILM FESTIVAL IN NEW YORK (20-23 November 2008);

- VIENNA INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL, (December 2008)