Igor Ivanov Izi

Writing

Igor Ivanov Izi

Born 1973-04-03 · Skopje, Macedonia

Igor Ivanov Izi is a film director and writer, born 1973 in Skopje, Macedonia. He started his professional career in 1993, directing TV series. From 1995 to 2004 he made several short films and documentaries presented and awarded at festivals worldwide. His short "Bubachki" was in competition of the 54th Berlinale and won a Golden Leopard at Locarno Film Festival. In 2007 his first feature film Upside Down was presented at Karlovy Vary film festival and won the Best Director prize at Mostra De Valencia Film Festival. His second feature titled as "The Piano Room" was released in Macedonia on 15th September 2013 and premiered in USA at 50th Chicago Film Festival. The working title of his next full length movie is "The Sugar Kid".

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Only Human poster
8.0

What is Man? “Homo” shows six faces, six phases in cleverly- connected, blackly comic episodes as desperate characters meet unwittingly in a modern metropole in the eternal search for the means to survive, and find some kind of love. The jobless graduate becomes a grave digger, the grieving widow a nun, the priests gamble and gangsters rule the courts. Only the lonely child may find some affection when hope springs eternal.

Only Human

2020

Only Human poster
8.0

What is Man? “Homo” shows six faces, six phases in cleverly- connected, blackly comic episodes as desperate characters meet unwittingly in a modern metropole in the eternal search for the means to survive, and find some kind of love. The jobless graduate becomes a grave digger, the grieving widow a nun, the priests gamble and gangsters rule the courts. Only the lonely child may find some affection when hope springs eternal.

Only Human

2020

Cobra poster
NR

A documentary film about wrestler Shaban Trstena, the only athlete from Macedonia to win an Olympic gold medal. It tells his life story with all its ups and downs, his worldwide fame and downfall.

Cobra

2018

Cobra poster
NR

A documentary film about wrestler Shaban Trstena, the only athlete from Macedonia to win an Olympic gold medal. It tells his life story with all its ups and downs, his worldwide fame and downfall.

Cobra

2018

The Lover poster
NR

A failed circus artist managed to regain his beloved and to pull her from the embrace of her new lover, using the acrobatic skills she once fell in love with.

The Lover

2018

The Lover poster
NR

A failed circus artist managed to regain his beloved and to pull her from the embrace of her new lover, using the acrobatic skills she once fell in love with.

The Lover

2018

No artwork available
9.0

N.E.P. or The Stones God Threw on the Barricades was made as an independent project by TV Bordoshbagn for A1 Independent Television in Skopje. The film is of an undefined genre and speaks about the Third World lies, which renowned 'well-intentioned' missionaries, founders of certain foundations and institutes, have promoted in the countries of the former socialist regime, especially in Eastern Europe. This project is an outsider's look at the paradox about the secret beauty of power and the submission to that power. N.E.P. is a video reflection on the aesthetics of the transformation of power, looked at from the point of view of the ordinary man in the so-called transitional countries who, after five years of living in 'freedom' still can't understand why the most democratic system of them all – parliamentary democracy – is better than the one before.

N.E.P.

1995

No artwork available
9.0

N.E.P. or The Stones God Threw on the Barricades was made as an independent project by TV Bordoshbagn for A1 Independent Television in Skopje. The film is of an undefined genre and speaks about the Third World lies, which renowned 'well-intentioned' missionaries, founders of certain foundations and institutes, have promoted in the countries of the former socialist regime, especially in Eastern Europe. This project is an outsider's look at the paradox about the secret beauty of power and the submission to that power. N.E.P. is a video reflection on the aesthetics of the transformation of power, looked at from the point of view of the ordinary man in the so-called transitional countries who, after five years of living in 'freedom' still can't understand why the most democratic system of them all – parliamentary democracy – is better than the one before.

N.E.P.

1995

No artwork available
9.0

N.E.P. or The Stones God Threw on the Barricades was made as an independent project by TV Bordoshbagn for A1 Independent Television in Skopje. The film is of an undefined genre and speaks about the Third World lies, which renowned 'well-intentioned' missionaries, founders of certain foundations and institutes, have promoted in the countries of the former socialist regime, especially in Eastern Europe. This project is an outsider's look at the paradox about the secret beauty of power and the submission to that power. N.E.P. is a video reflection on the aesthetics of the transformation of power, looked at from the point of view of the ordinary man in the so-called transitional countries who, after five years of living in 'freedom' still can't understand why the most democratic system of them all – parliamentary democracy – is better than the one before.

N.E.P.

1995

The Blanket of Aco Shopov poster
NR

The members of the Macedonian hip-hop crew Chista okolina (Clean Environment) rap some of their tracks a capella.

The Blanket of Aco Shopov

1996

The Clock poster
NR

An eclectic cinematic collage of mixed temporary contexts, reveals what is in the mind of a young man who lives in a claustrophobic inability to communicate freely with the outer world, because of the visa regime.

The Clock

1997

The Clock poster
NR

An eclectic cinematic collage of mixed temporary contexts, reveals what is in the mind of a young man who lives in a claustrophobic inability to communicate freely with the outer world, because of the visa regime.

The Clock

1997

I Believe in Love poster
NR

The streets of Roma neighborhoods are full of life; children play in the yards but once the doors of the ramshackle houses are closed, violence reigns. This is a film about women who are victims of their own love, the twisted understanding of tradition and marriage, the life on the margins of society where justice is 'well-behaved' and does not intend to meddle in the marital relations. The various stories of women from different generations, held in captivity by their hopelessness, supported by their husbands' chauvinistic views, promise faithfully that the culture of family violence will persist, be nurtured, and go on...

I Believe in Love

2013

I Believe in Love poster
NR

The streets of Roma neighborhoods are full of life; children play in the yards but once the doors of the ramshackle houses are closed, violence reigns. This is a film about women who are victims of their own love, the twisted understanding of tradition and marriage, the life on the margins of society where justice is 'well-behaved' and does not intend to meddle in the marital relations. The various stories of women from different generations, held in captivity by their hopelessness, supported by their husbands' chauvinistic views, promise faithfully that the culture of family violence will persist, be nurtured, and go on...

I Believe in Love

2013

Concrete Time poster
NR

A story about Skopje, more precisely its architectural and urban history with a special focus on the modern architecture, which follows the city from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the brief era of brutalism.

Concrete Time

2024

Concrete Time poster
NR

A story about Skopje, more precisely its architectural and urban history with a special focus on the modern architecture, which follows the city from the beginning of the twentieth century, to the brief era of brutalism.

Concrete Time

2024

The Piano Room poster
5.0

A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.

The Piano Room

2013

The Piano Room poster
5.0

A run-down hotel room, a piano, a maid and the guests who stay there. Life begins, life ends, and lives are changed forever in the piano room.

The Piano Room

2013

Three Days in September poster
5.3

Story about a vengeance, about the secrets we carry and the roles we play.

Three Days in September

2015

Give Us Back the Bragging Rights poster
NR

A documentary about the success and history of Rabotnički - the most successful basketball club in Macedonia.

Give Us Back the Bragging Rights

2025

Give Us Back the Bragging Rights poster
NR

A documentary about the success and history of Rabotnički - the most successful basketball club in Macedonia.

Give Us Back the Bragging Rights

2025

Give Us Back the Bragging Rights poster
NR

A documentary about the success and history of Rabotnički - the most successful basketball club in Macedonia.

Give Us Back the Bragging Rights

2025

Bugs poster
6.5

What becomes of a young man who lives entirely in his own world? Melancholy and powerful images bring back memories from the boy's past while revealing his contemplation on the present.

Bugs

2004

Bugs poster
6.5

What becomes of a young man who lives entirely in his own world? Melancholy and powerful images bring back memories from the boy's past while revealing his contemplation on the present.

Bugs

2004