--- name: "Milcho Manchevski" canonical: "https://film.one/person/milcho-manchevski" fi1m_id: "milcho-manchevski" imdb_id: "nm0541391" tmdb_id: 1364800 wikidata_id: "Q558481" roles: ["Director"] born: "18 August 1959" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "director" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T21:36:33.946787+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Milcho Manchevski ## Identity Milcho Manchevski - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/milcho-manchevski - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** milcho-manchevski - **IMDb ID:** nm0541391 - **TMDB ID:** 1364800 - **Wikidata ID:** Q558481 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milcho_Manchevski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q558481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1364800 Director. Born 18 August 1959 in Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia. ## Details - **Work:** Director - **Born:** 18 August 1959, Skopje, Macedonia, Yugoslavia - **Also known as:** Milčo Mančevski, Милчо Манчевски - **Venice Film Festival:** 2 Venice prizes (2 won) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milcho_Manchevski, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q558481, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0541391/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1364800 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*The Wire*](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md) (90) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Milcho Manchevski is a Macedonian film director, screenwriter, photographer and artist. Born in 1959 in Skopje, he graduated from Southern Illinois University with a degree in film and photography and has lived in New York since 1985. He wrote and directed the feature *Before the Rain* (1994), which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. His other feature films include *Dust* (2001), *Shadows* (2007) and *Mothers* (2010). He has directed numerous short films and music videos, and helmed one episode of the HBO series *The Wire* (2002). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, thewire.fandom.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *The Wire* (2002), Fi1m 90, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md) ## Complete filmography (17) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Good People* (2026), Director, Writer, Producer - *Kaymak* (2022), Director, Writer - *Willow* (2019), Writer, Director - *Bikini Moon* (2017), Director, Story - *The End of Time* (2017), Director, Writer - *Vanja - Born in Pain* (2015), Actor - *Venice 70: Future Reloaded* (2013), Director, Writer - *Mothers* (2011), Writer, Director - *Shadows* (2007), Director, Writer - *The Wire* (2002), series, Director — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wire.md) - *Dust* (2001), Director, Writer - *Maklabas* (1998), Actor - *Before the Rain* (1994), Director, Writer - *Arrested Development: Tennessee* (1992), Director - *Tough Granny* (1985), Director, Writer - *The Tenant* (1981), Writer, Director - *Sister Brother Manhole Cover*, Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Milcho Manchevski](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-c7dbeb699889.jpg) Milcho Manchevski — Pmm1112, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Milcho_Manchevski.JPG/1280px-Milcho_Manchevski.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Director, Milcho Manchevski (2011)](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-17b5c480bb19.jpg) Director, Milcho Manchevski (2011) — Pmm1112, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Milcho_Manchevski_%282%29.JPG/1280px-Milcho_Manchevski_%282%29.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット ミルチョ・マンチェフスキ (カイマック) (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-e06b5bf76f08.jpg) 第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット ミルチョ・マンチェフスキ (カイマック) (2022) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Milcho_Manchevski_from_%22Kaymak%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460562337%29.jpg/1280px-Milcho_Manchevski_from_%22Kaymak%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460562337%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット ミルチョ・マンチェフスキ (カイマック) (2022)](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-23b28493d160.jpg) 第35回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット ミルチョ・マンチェフスキ (カイマック) (2022) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Milcho_Manchevski_from_%22Kaymak%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460562337%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Milcho_Manchevski_from_%22Kaymak%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2022_%2852460562337%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Milcho Manchevski](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-47a04fda0042.jpg) Milcho Manchevski — Image via TMDB - ![Milcho Manchevski](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-2e4f95c79b4d.jpg) Milcho Manchevski — Image via TMDB - ![Milcho Manchevski](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-8aa57c94d172.jpg) Milcho Manchevski — Image via TMDB - ![Film director (2024)](https://film.one/media/person/60986/gallery-84f2ad3c25d2.jpg) Film director (2024) — Aleksandar Ristovski1, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%87%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8.jpg/1280px-%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%87%D0%BE_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Venice Film Festival — 2 won - 1996: Golden Lion (won), for *Before the Rain* - 1995: Golden Lion (won), for *Before the Rain* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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