Living in a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, the titular 15-year-old boy in “DJ Ahmet” desperately wants two things he cannot have: to share music with others and to be with the girl next door, who is already promised to someone else. Director Georgi M. Unkovski knows a thing or two about wanting something that feels impossible, having gone through multiple funding and production frustrations in the five-year journey to make his feature debut, premiering as part of Sundance’s World Cinema Dramatic Competition.
Speaking exclusively with Variety ahead of the festival, the Macedonian writer-director, whose work has been featured in over 200 international festivals, HBO and MTV,
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