Lying near death in an emergency room, Lem (Saso Kekenovski) flashes back to his childhood in post-World War II Czechoslovakia. What passes for an orphanage is really a forced labor camp in which the children are brainwashed into the glories of Communism. Life is hell until a mysterious newcomer changes the status quo in the camp. Why is Lem so fascinated with this handsome newcomer who, at best, ignores him? Does the film have a homoerotic subtext? Whatever. The Great Water is grimly haunting. A native critic has described the film's source as a seminal work in the rise of Macedonian cultural sensibility and compares Trajov's film version to the work of David Lynch and Wim Wenders. ~ Nick Salerno

Principal Cast: Saso Kekenovski, Maja Stankovska, Mitko Apostolovski, Meto Jovanovski

Producer: Ivo Trajkov
Cinematographer: Suki Medencevic
Editor: Atanas Georgiev
Music: Kiril Dzajkovski

Shows: Saturday, Oct. 8 at 1:15 pm and Sunday, Oct. 9 at 6:05 pm