Tokyo: Milcho Manchevski on his Competition Film, Blacklisting and the Ills of Neo-Social Realism

News Briefvia The Hollywood ReporterOctober 30, 2026

The director, whose ‘Sister Brother Manhole Cover’ is in Tokyo International Film Festival’s main competition, holds forth on why mothers are such a presence in his stories and how he made his first full documentary despite his misgivings about the genre.

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