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Film

Kaymak

Milcho Manchevski, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 2022

Feature

Kaymak is an irreverent, unconventional, and poignant love story – or, rather, two love stories.
Eva and Metodi are young, rich, and successful. He wants to have children, but she fears pregnancy. One day Eva drives to the village her family came from. There she arranges for a relative with intellectual disability to move in with them. She has a plan.
Danche and Caramba live in a crumbling house below Eva’s and Metodi’s luxury high rise. They are late middle-aged and feeling left behind. Every day Caramba comes home with fresh kaymak – soft cream cheese. Danche does not suspect that Caramba has fallen for the cheese monger at the green market until she finds them having sex in her marital bed.
The quiet rebellion of ordinary women and men against roles imposed on them by society makes them heroes of a story where everybody is both a victim and a perpetrator.
Underneath its lighthearted exploration of the eternal search for love and happiness, Kaymak tackles more complex social issues – human trafficking, surrogacy, infidelity, and sexual liberation.
Basic information Credits
Original title Kaymak
Danish title Kaymak
Director Milcho Manchevski
Screenplay Milcho Manchevski
Producer Jane Kortoshev
Director of Photography Ulrik Boel Bentzen
Editor Emiel Nuninga
Production country Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Denmark
Domestic distribution Øst for Paradis
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Companies

Production company Banana Films
Co-production Meta Film Rights, N279 Entertainment
With support from North Macedonia Film Agency, Det Danske Filminstitut, The Netherlands Film Fund, The Netherlands Film Production Incentive, Eurimages, Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Domestic distribution Øst for Paradis

Direction

Direction Milcho Manchevski

Script

Screenplay Milcho Manchevski

Production

Producer Jane Kortoshev
Executive producer Ian Prior
Executive producer Milcho Manchevski
Co-producer Mette Børch Petersen
Co-producer Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen

Cinematography

Cinematographer Ulrik Boel Bentzen

Editing

Editor Emiel Nuninga
Editing supervisor Nicolas Gaster

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