Nikola Ristanovski

Acting

Nikola Ristanovski

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 18 titles

Mother poster
5.6

Calcutta, India, August 1948. Teresa, Mother Superior of the convent of the Sisters of Loreto, is anxiously waiting for the letter that will finally allow her to leave her monastery and create her new order in response to the call she has received from God.

Mother

2025

Forever Hold Your Peace poster
7.0

Two days before the wedding, Dragana decides that she will not marry the weak and predictable Momo. His headstrong father Leso strikes a deal with her – to act as the bride just for the day. But instead of saving the family’s honor, it only starts a traumatic farce for everyone involved.

Forever Hold Your Peace

2024

The Only Way Out poster
6.0

Six years after her husband, a prominent Belgrade lawyer, died in a fire, Anja Kolar receives information that makes her question everything she thought she knew about the accident and about her own family as well. At the same time the sudden death of his best friend's daughter draws police inspector Dejan Strbac into a whirlpool of crimes, starting with the mysterious disappearance of a young female lawyer, which took place six years earlier.

The Only Way Out

2021

Dwelling Among the Gods poster
NR

It is the summer of 2015. Fereshteh, a young Afghan woman, arrives in Belgrade with her husband and three children, after a gruelling months-long journey. She learns that her younger brother has drowned and will soon be buried as an unidentified person, a John Doe. As Hungary closes its borders to stop the influx of migrants from the Middle East, and as Fereshteh's husband and his family pressure her to continue their journey, she is doing all she can to give her brother a dignified burial.

Dwelling Among the Gods

2024

You Won't Believe What Happened Before poster
NR

Two rogue journalists clash over a damning video that could topple a crooked regime. As betrayal and blackmail mount, their twisted road trip spirals into chaos, murder, and a scandal that could bring the whole system crashing down.

You Won't Believe What Happened Before

2026

The Tower of Strength poster
9.0

A persecuted child finds shelter in the house of the enemy. The host faces an awestruck choice: to save the child's life and his own integrity - or risk losing his family to a group of armed kinsmen.

The Tower of Strength

2024

K-15: On the Other Side poster
NR

The story about how K-15, the most famous comedy show in Macedonia, was created.

K-15: On the Other Side

2025

For Eva poster
NR

Eva, a seventeen year old girl, tries to face the consequences of a rash decision.

For Eva

2025

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

Bibi and Bobby in Snowmanville poster
9.5

Bibi and Bobby travel with the snowman Gogo to Snowmanville to celebrate the New Year there. But Snowmanville is deserted and quiet. Where are all the snowmen? Why doesn't anyone celebrate the New Year?

Bibi and Bobby in Snowmanville

2022

The Name of the People poster
7.0

Life of Serbian patriot and intellectual Svetozar Miletic and his family in a fight to free Serbian people from Austria-Hungary.

The Name of the People

2020

Bibi, Bobby and a Snowish New Year poster
NR

Bibi, Zazi, mom Anna and dad Tino are getting ready to decorate the Christmas tree, and Bobby and Zina have come to visit. Someone makes cookies, someone performs magic tricks, cheerful songs are sung and... no one can imagine how much magic, surprises and most unusual friendships will bring this "snowish" New Year to Bibi and Bobby.

Bibi, Bobby and a Snowish New Year

2021

Bibi and Bobby: The Sounds of the New Year poster
NR

Bibi, Bobby, the snowman Gogo, the Santa Claus from Zaz, the robot R1 and the mysterious guardians of Zaz unite in order to same all of the music in the universe.

Bibi and Bobby: The Sounds of the New Year

2023

Bibi and Bobby in the World of Fairy Tales poster
NR

"Bibi and Bobby in the World of Fairy Tales" is a compilation of four favorite and new fairy tales: "The Snow Queen", "Bibi and the Spindle", "Bibi and the Pea" and "Bibi, Bobby and the Wolf (The Three Little Pigs)" which will take children on an unforgettable winter adventure filled with Christmas carols, magic, humor and lessons about friendship and kindness.

Bibi and Bobby in the World of Fairy Tales

2025

Bibi and Bobby: Spring Magic poster
NR

Vanished and forgotten magical animals. Magical items that have the power to awaken spring. New friends in our latest hyper-super-ultra-megaturbo-giga very exciting walk through our beautiful Macedonia.

Bibi and Bobby: Spring Magic

2023

The Adventures of Bibi and Bobby: The Magic Forest poster
6.0

New adventures of Bibi and Bobby this time in the Magic Forest.

The Adventures of Bibi and Bobby: The Magic Forest

2024

Model Rocketry poster
NR

Kalin, an 11-year-old boy who dreams of space and the journey to it by becoming an astronaut or an engineer who builds rockets.

Model Rocketry

2024

Not-Being poster
NR

A short animated omnibus consisted of four films inspired by the poetry of great Macedonian poet Aco Šopov.

Not-Being

2023

2010s · 12 titles

The Last Act poster
NR

A young Italian actress goes to visit her lover in Macedonia during the world war two. Her playfulness and nonchalant behavior leads to a tragic end.

The Last Act

2014

Zamfir's Zona Part Two poster
9.0

Jealousy, envy, gossip, and greed are testing Zona's and Mane's perfect marriage.

Zamfir's Zona Part Two

2017

Balkan Is Not Dead poster
7.3

A Macedonian family from Bitola at the turn of the twentieth century tries to survive, preserve its roots and remain together.

Balkan Is Not Dead

2013

The Reaper poster
5.2

Haunted by his dark past, a labourer in a small Croatian village has a series of fateful encounters over the course of a single night.

The Reaper

2014

The Black Pin poster
6.4

Father Peter fears that the universe has become indifferent. God no longer intervenes in earthly affairs. Peter's wife abandoned him, his son disobeys him and his mother suffers from Alzheimer's and hardly ever recognizes him. When Peter becomes an obstacle to a large property sale in his small island parish, a group of interesting, but vengeful villagers decides to force him to leave. Using very creative methods, they convince the entire superstitious village that Peter is the cause of all the troubles on their island.

The Black Pin

2016

No artwork available
NR

A well situated Macedonian doctor lives comfortably with his wife in Montenegro thanks to the money inherited from his parents. Suddenly, he faces with such unexpected reversals in life. His wife disappears without a trace, the bank where he keeps his money is bankrupt, the police confiscate his passport, and he’s being stalked by his wife’s father. Alone, abandoned and without help, he is taking a solitary journey.

The Little Love God

2011

No artwork available
6.3

A group of problematic, abandoned teenagers from a Juvenile Adoption Centre share their destiny on the margins of the society, holding only on the teachings of their caring educator about the true values of life. But a series of tragic events that culminate with the death of one of the youngsters by the hand of a police inspector, will crush their illusions for a normal future in a world that stigmatizes them as outcasts. Incited by the awakening words of the broken educator and the emerging, ferocious leader of the pack, the boys take the path of revenge, which soon escalates into a spiral of violence and takes them deep into the catacombs of the criminal underworld.

Amok

2016

Honey Night poster
6.3

The story of this political thriller takes place in the 90s and follows one night of the life of the Deputy Minister Nikola and his wife Ana.

Honey Night

2015

This Is Not an American Movie poster
7.5

A gang of small-time criminals dream of glamor like in an American movies and plan their biggest heist - the secret room of CIA.

This Is Not an American Movie

2011

Menagerie poster
NR

"Menagerie" is a drama which takes place in the early 1990s, in one Serbian village near the coast of river Drina. It is a story about moral and historical breakdown of one country, located at a milieu separated from urban life, in an area that lives on specific rules and relationships between people. Srna, daughter of Strain, the most powerful man in the village, is promised for a wife to Jovan. Jovan is the son of a local forester Tadija, who, in return, allows Strain poaching and illegal cutting of village wood. Although there is attraction between Srna and Jovan, they still don't want to be married by the wish of their fathers. Suddenly Petar, the ex-forester who was seven years in jail for killing Strain's older son, returns to the village. His return changes lives of all characters in this story indicating the uncertain end of it.

Menagerie

2012

The Crew poster
5.8

Unscrupulous managers, somewhat violent hunters, an Italian girl, a Partizan football star and his brother-in-law who is a supporter of Red Star, are met by a force of opportunity during the derby.

The Crew

2019

Señor poster
NR

When Dunya decides to accompany her father on his wine delivery route, a chance encounter with her father's old love confronts her with the mystery of who her father is and more perilously - who he used to be.

Señor

2019

2000s · 9 titles

Storks in the Fog poster
5.7

Svaba, Marina, Ekser and Dule live and work peacefully in Baranda. However, a few days before the New Year, Spricer, Ekser and Dule's friend from early youth, arrives, who is in trouble and asks for their help. This TV film was made as a continuation of a popular Serbian TV series "The Storks Will Return".

Storks in the Fog

2009

Autumn in My Street poster
6.5

The main story is about two twenty year old guys who spend day in a remote suburb of Novi Sad. The are gathering money to go to seaside for the very first time since they finished primary school. Despite all the signs that this will be just another autumn day, on this trip they will experience the moment that will change their lives forever.

Autumn in My Street

2009

Does it Hurt? poster
5.0

DOGMA 95 exists for over 10 years now. But it has been living in the Balkans forever. A desperate filmmaker swears it's time to kill DOGMA . But how far will she go to make it come true?

Does it Hurt?

2007

Movie - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Auteur Film Making poster
7.1

A filmmaker goes on the run rather than complete his latest picture in this offbeat comedy from Macedonian auteur Ivo Trajkov. A director (Trajkov) has grown weary of battling his producer for control of his latest project and decides to hit the road, borrowing his girlfriend's auto and stealing the production bankroll from the project's financiers. While at first the director claims to have a grand scheme for his ill-gotten gains, his plans take a serious left turn when he meets a strange young woman and an eccentric hitchhiker.

Movie - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Auteur Film Making

2007

One poster
NR

The fear and shutting off the reality, a state of a dream, although beautiful as it seems, can not exist forever. Because the man knows that one day, he will have to awake from the dream and confront the fear.

One

2009

Upside Down poster
5.5

Jan is the type of romantic malcontent who can't find rest, who continually hurts people and gets hurt himself. This dark, raw and uncompromising Macedonian film presents a gloomy testimony of the degradation of the life of the individual and society as a whole.

Upside Down

2007

Steep-headed poster
NR

Urban drama about ordinary people in a period of transition.

Steep-headed

2006

Metamorphoses poster
NR

This is a time when we learn afresh that nothing lasts forever and that the variability is an integral part of everyday life. What is a river today does not mean that tomorrow will not become a sea. Life itself is one large metamorphosis, and the human being is its variable shape...

Metamorphoses

2007

One of the Death's Faces poster
NR

The film is based on the story FATHER by Petre M. Andreevski. An excerpt from life that weaves like a spider web around human destinies. The questions will hardly ever get the right answers.

One of the Death's Faces

2003

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