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99m
DJ Ahmet
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Synopsis
Sundance Audience Award winner DJ AHMET is a laugh-out-loud gem 🐑
Winner of an Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival, DJ AHMET is about a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia who finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
Writer/Director Georgi M. Unkovski makes his delightful feature film debut with this inspiring tribute to the unifying power of music at any age, as well as the unexpected freedoms it can provide. Uplifted by warm humour, lovable characters, and an unsurprisingly catchy soundtrack, DJ AHMET casts a welcome spell that reverberates long after the last joyous note.
Turkish and Macedonian with English subtitles
Screening at Luna Leederville from May 7.
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
2025 Sundance Film Festival | Winner: Audience Award & World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award
2025 São Paulo International Film Festival | Winner: Special Jury Prize
2025 Sarajevo Film Festival | Winner: Cineuropa Award, Special Youth Perspectives Award, Audience Award Feature Film
2025 Sydney, Perth and Melbourne International Film Festivals | Official Selection
Rating
PG
Length
99m
Genre
New Release
Reviews
The sort of film that urges one to tell everyone about it so that they too can bask in its wondrous pleasures, DJ Ahmet is a revelation in that it seamlessly straddles the line between laugh-out-loud crowd-pleaser and art-house gem with affecting gravitas.
Picture Footloose happening right now in a tiny village in Northern Macedonia, and you’ll get the vibe behind writer-director Georgi M. Unkovski’s touching feature debut, DJ Ahmet.
Filmmaker Georgi M. Unkovski employs music in various forms in his feature debut, approaching its clash between youthful rebellion and traditional culture with a non-judgmental warmth and an open heart”
Totally charming
Captivating, funny and genuinely heartfelt
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