Goran Stolevski changed his behaviour while filming in his homophobic home country. His partner almost paid the ultimate price.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.Goran Stolevski has lived in Australia – firstly in Melbourne, now in Sydney – since he was 12, but he says he has never felt at home there. His childhood was spent in Macedonia. As a teenager in the ’90s, he likes to say now, his best friends were Katharine Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman. He didn’t feel any more at home in Macedonia on regular family trips back to Skopje – and even less so now.
“I would witness racism, then hear my actors tell me stories of everyday life, not even as experiences of racism but just normality for them.” Three young lesbians who have been thrown out of various homes have also moved in. Then there are Sauda’s children: a snappy adolescent girl Vanesa and little Mia , who is just five but holds her own among these scrapping, posturing, edgy folk.It isn’t exactly a functioning family; there is a good deal of shouting under a perpetual pall of smoke.
Goran Stolevski: “It’s like this anger collects in you, and you need to vent, but there isn’t anywhere safe to do it.” In fact, Stolevski did not set out to tell a story about Macedonia. The idea of making a film about a queer household was sparked by a photograph of a similarly sprawling Melbourne household of the ’70s that was posted on social media by Australian filmmaker Tony Ayres. “It was just a casual photo from one day in their lives and Tony and his boyfriend – who is still his boyfriend – where they were living with eight women.
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