Manaki Brothers Film Festival

• 1996 Milton Manaki
• 1997 Ljube Petkovski and Branko Mihajlovski
• 1998 Sven Nykvist
• 1999 Jerzy Wojcik
• 2000 Freddie Francis
• 2001 Miroslav Ondříček and Henri Alekan
• 2002 Tonino Delli Colli
• 2003 Raoul Coutard
• 2004 Vadim Yusov
• 2005 Vittorio Storaro
• 2006 Michael Ballhaus
• 2007 Anatoli Petritsky
• 2008 Walter Carvalho
• 2009 Billy Williams and Peter Suschitzky
• 2010 Vilmos Zsigmond
• 2011 Dante Spinotti
• 2012 Luciano Tovoli
• 2013 José Luis Alcaine
• 2014 Chris Menges
• 2015 Božidar Nikolić, Jaromír Å ofr, Ryszard Lenczewski^[3]
• 2016 Robby Müller,^[4] John Seale^[5]
• 2017 Giuseppe Rotunno^[6] and Pierre Lhomme^[7]
• 2018 Roger Deakins^[8] and Claudia Cardinale^[9]
• 2019 Edward Lachman^[10] and Giorgos Arvanitis^[11]
• 2020 Janusz Kamiński^[12]
• 2021 Christian Berger^[13]
• 2022 Anthony Dod Mantle^[14]
• 2023 Peter Biziou^[15]
• 2024 Bruno Delbonnel^[16]

• 2000 – Jiří Menzel
• 2002 – Robby Müller
• 2003 – Christopher Doyle
• 2006 – Charles Dance
• 2007 – Branko Lustig
• 2008 – Veljko Bulajić and Karen Shakhnazarov
• 2009 – Victoria Abril and Anthony Dod Mantle
• 2010 – Daryl Hannah and Roger Pratt
• 2011 – Bruno Delbonnel and Miki Manojlovic
• 2012 – Christian Berger and Catherine Deneuve
• 2013 – Agnès Godard and Isabelle Huppert
• 2014 – Luca Bigazzi^[17] and Juliette Binoche
• 2015 – Aleksei Serebryakov and Bruno Ganz^[18]
• 2016 – Phedon Papamichael^[19]
• 2017 – Milcho Manchevski^[20]
• 2018 – Claudia Cardinale^[21]
• 2021 – Andrei Konchalovsky^[22] and Jocelyn Pook^[23]
• 2022 – John Mathieson^[24]
• 2023 – Seamus McGarvey^[25]
• 2024 – Jolanta Dylewska^[26]

• 1993 – Vilko Filač for Arizona Dream
• 1994 – Gerard Simon for Louis, the Child King
• 1995 – Stefan Kullänger for Sommaren
• 1996 – Masao Nakabori for Maborosi
• 1997 – Sergey Astakhov for Brother
• 1998 – Walter Carvalho for Central Station
• 1999 – Jacek Petrycki for Journey to the Sun
• 2000 – Andreas Höfer for The Three Lives of Rita
• 2001 – Ryszard Lenczewski for Last Resort
• 2002 – Walter Carvalho for To the Left of the Father
• 2003 – Christopher Doyle for Hero and Barry Ackroyd for Sweet Sixteen
• 2004 – Rainer Klausmann for Head-On
• 2005 – Shu Yang Kong for That
• 2006 – Stéphane Fontaine for The Beat That My Heart Skipped
• 2007 – Dragan Marković for The Living and the Dead and Jaromír Å ofr for I Served the King of England
• 2008 – Rodrigo Prieto for Lust, Caution
• 2009 – Natasha Braier for The Milk of Sorrow
• 2010 – Marin Gschlacht for Women Without Men
• 2011 – Fred Kelemen for The Turin Horse
• 2012 – Jolanta Dylewska for In Darkness
• 2013 – Kiko de la Rica for Blancanieves
• 2014 – Valentyn Vasyanovych for The Tribe
• 2015 – Mátyás Erdély for Son of Saul
• 2016 – Jani-Petteri Passi for The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
• 2017 – Marcell Rev for Jupiter’s Moon
• 2018 – Hong Kyung-pyo for Burning
• 2019 – Hélène Louvart for The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão^[27]
• 2021 – Jani-Petteri Passi for Compartment No. 6 ^[28]
• 2022 – Ruben Impens for The Eight Mountains^[29]
• 2023 – Cevahir Şahin and Kürşat Üresin for About Dry Grasses^[30]
• 2024 – Judith Kaufmann for The Teachers' Lounge
• 2025 – David Chambille for Nouvelle Vague

• 2011 – Michael Krichman for Quiet Souls
• 2012 – Alisher Khamidkhadjaev for Living
• 2013 – Virginie Saint-Martin for Tango Libre
• 2014 – Ryszard Lenczewski for Ida
• 2015 – Adam Arkapaw for Macbeth
• 2016 – Ruben Impens for Belgica^[31]
• 2017 – Reiner Klausmann for In the Fade^[32]
• 2018 – Éric Gautier for Ash Is Purest White
• 2019 – Dong Jinsong for The Wild Goose Lake^[27]
• 2021 – Kasper Tuxen for The Worst Person in the World^[28]
• 2022 – Daria D'Antonio for The Hand of God^[29]
• 2023 – Chengma Zhiyan for Only the River Flows^[30]
• 2024 – Ranabir Das for All We Imagine as Light
• 2025 – Olympia Mytilinaiou for Quiet Life

Before 1993 the festival did not have a director, the function was introduced in 1993.

• Boris Nonevski 1993–1995
• Gorjan Tozija 1995–1995
• Delcho Mihajlov 1996–1998
• Vladimir Atanasov 1998–2001
• Tomi Salkovski 2001–2009
• Labina Mitevska 2009–2014^[33]
• Dimitar Nikolov 2015–2015^[34]
• Blagoja Kunovski 2016–2018 ^[35]
• Evgenija Teodosievska 2018–2020 ^[36]
• Simeon Damevski 2021–? ^[37]

• 1995 – Dick Pope, Ron Holloway, Stole Popov
• 1996 – Marcel Martin
• 1997 – Zivko Zalar, Simon Perry, Deborah Young
• 1998 – Morten Bruus, Sergei Astakhov, Martin Langer
• 2000 – Jaromír Sofr, Jacek Petrycki, John Christian Rosenlund, Jan Hintjens, Ivo Trajkov
• 2001 – Andreas Hoffer, Dominique Bax, Éric Guichard, Aleksandr Bashirov, Dejan Dukovski
• 2002 – Robby Müller, Alain Marcoen, Ronald Bergan, Jan Weincke, Antonio Mitrikeski
• 2003 – Willy Kurant, Olinka Vistica, Gábor Medvigy, António Costa
• 2004 – César Charlone, Rosanna Seregni, Andreas Fischer-Hansen, Roi Jean, Umberto Rossi
• 2009 – Peter Suschitzky, Slobodan Å ijan, Yuri Klimenko, Minas Bakalčev
• 2010 – Vilmos Zsigmond, Pawel Pawlinkowski, Dominique Fury, Natasha Braier, Darko Mitrevski, Christine Dollhofer
• 2011 – Dante Spinotti, Eva Zaoralova, Goce Smilevski, Nigel Walters, Martin Schweighofer
• 2012 – Fred Kelemen, Miladin Colakovic, Damjan Kozole, Ilija Penushliski, Virgine Saint Martin
• 2013 – Jose Luis Alcaine, Amnon Zalait, Bojidar Manov, Elma Tataragic, Dejan Dukovski
• 2014 – Giora Bejach, Rebekah Tolley, Srdjan Dragojevic, Simon Tansek, Lazar Sekulovski
• 2015 – Božidar Nikolić, Ryszard Lenczewski, Mitko Panov, Hayet Benkara, Ercan Kesal^[38]
• 2016 – Phedon Papamichael, Claire Pijman, Alin Taşçıyan, Gökhan Tiryaki, Vladimir Samoilovski ^[19]
• 2017 – Paul René Roestad, Luca Coassin, Darijan Pejovski, Jani-Petteri Passi, Erol Zubčević ^[7]
• 2018 – Olympia Mytilinaiou, Rainer Klausmann, Mattias Troelstrup, Rebecca Fayyad Palud, Gjorce Stavreski ^[39]
• 2019 – Edward Lachman, Kaloyan Bozhilov, Dominique Welinski, Fejmi Daut, Nenad Dukic ^[27]
• 2021 – Phillip Bergson, Wim Vanacker, Suki Medencevic, Sonja Prosenc, Dimo Popov ^[40]
• 2022 – Jean-Marie Dreujou, Melisa Sözen, Carlos R. Diazmuñoz, Maja Bogojević, Samir Ljuma ^[41]
• 2023 – Daria D’Antonio, Peter Biziou, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Romain Lacourbas, Domenico La Porta^[42]
• 2024 – John Seale, Agnès Godard, Cevahir Şahin, Birgit Guðjónsdóttir, Vladimir Blazevski^[43]

• 2004: "The Great Water" (Големата вода) – National Premiere
• 2005: "Contact" (Контакт) – World Premiere
• 2006: "The Secret Book" (Тајната книга) – World Premiere
• 2010: "Mothers" (Мајки) – National premiere
• 2012: "The Third Half" (Трето полувреме) – World Premiere
• 2012: "Balkan Is Not Dead" (Балканот не е мртов) – World Premiere
• 2013: "The Piano Room" (Соба со пијано) – World Premiere
• 2014: "To the Hilt" (До балчак) – World Premiere
• 2014: "Children of the Sun" (Деца на сонцето) – World Premiere
• 2015: "Lazar" (Лазар) – World Premiere
• 2016: "The Liberation of Skopje" (Ослободувањето на Скопје) – National Premiere ^[19]
• 2016: "Golden five" (Златна Петорка) – World Premiere ^[19]
• 2021: "Sisterhood" (Сестри) – National Premiere ^[44]
• 2022: "Snow White Dies at the End (Снежана на крајот умира) – National Premiere
• 2023: "Housekeeping for beginners" (Домаќинство за почетници) – National Premiere
• 2023: "Lena and Vladimir" (Лена и Владимир) – World Premiere