Tale of Silyan
Inspired by the folktale of the boy Siljan, who, after a quarrel with his father, turns into a stork and leaves home, the film is a story about the relationship between a farmer and a white stork․
Producers: Jean Dakar, Anna Hashmi, Tamara Kotevska, Jordanco Petkovski
Director: Tamara Kotevska
Cinematography: Jean Dakar
Writer: Tamara Kotevska
Editing: Martin Ivanov
Sound: Mihajlo Radovic
Composer: Joe Wilson Davies, HunOuk Park
Director’s Biography
Tamara Kotevska is a Macedonian filmmaker best known for her 2019 documentary Honeyland, which made history as the first film nominated for both Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature at the Academy Awards. Born in Prilep, Macedonia in 1993, she studied dramatic art at the Sts. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje with an emphasis on documentary film . Her debut feature Lake of Apples co directed with Ljubomir Stefanov preceded Honeyland, and her latest film The Tale of Silyan won Best Feature Documentary and Best Cinematography at the 2025 IDA Awards.