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09 October 2026 — 08:00 pm

The World’s Room
Dj Ahmet

A film by Georgi M. Unkovski - M/12+
Curated by Candela Varas
Cinema · Thought

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Like many 15-year-old boys, Ahmet dreams of something more. Living in a remote village in North Macedonia, he is tasked with looking after the family’s flock while his father seeks treatment for his younger brother, five-year-old Naim, who has not spoken since their mother died.

Ahmet finds refuge in music and enlists his brother’s help to impress Aya, the girl he has fallen in love with, who is already promised to someone else. DJ Ahmet portrays the clash between tradition and modernity, in an ode to the power of music.

Dj Ahmet is part of EscolaNova’s cinema cycle, The World’s Room — a meeting place where cinema asserts itself as a tool for reflection and change, curated by Candela Varas.

Sundance 2025 | Audience Award – World Cinema Dramatic

Sundance 2025 | Special Jury Award – Creative Vision



know + The World's Room

/ Artistic and technical credits

/Genre Fiction  /Nationality MK  /Year 2025  
/Original language Turkish · Macedonian  
/Subtitles Portuguese · English  
/Director Georgi M. Unkovski
/Cast Arif Jakup, Agush Agushev, Dora Akan Zlatanova and Aksel Mehmet

EscolaNova, Bordeira - Aljezur
09 October 2026 (fri) — 08:00 pm
Running time
1h39
Age Rating
M/12+
Tickets
5€ Single

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The World’s Room
Curated by Candela Varas


A dark room, a white wall, a few chairs and cushions on a wool rug, or the warm summer open air. Each month, a new film appears, always accompanied by a special person, carefully chosen.

We believe that a film, after being screened, can continue to expand in a dialogue between the audience and someone we invite to think together. This person’s role is to guide the audience through a conversation that goes beyond what the work has already brought us - someone capable of offering unexpected perspectives, suggesting new readings and challenging perceptions.

We ask whether a film can open itself to other worlds beyond its own, and we pursue the richness of oblique viewpoints - those that lead us along transversal paths of thinking and feeling.

NIn this second edition, The World’s Room deepens this proposal, recovering the enchantment of the seventh art through a sharp, poetic, political, social and psychological contemporary cinema, with a selection of films curated by Candela Varas, in dialogue with guests from different fields of knowledge. One film and one person. One spectacle of images that we watch and then intuit within ourselves.


About the film selection, by Candela Varas

The Breath

The poetic word is born from breath, from the airy matter that passes through the body before becoming voice, rhythm and meaning. A poem is, above all, an organisation of breath. If poetry is made of air, cinema also breathes - not only because it is made of sound and silence, but above all because it is an art of time, pulse and oscillation. To think cinema through breathing is to shift the gaze from the image as surface to the image as duration.

This cycle invites us to think of films as a respiratory grammar, with their rhythm and metre: between cuts, silences and long takes, each work proposes its own cadence, alternating moments of full breath and held breath. It is also to notice how bodies and their breathing are filmed, and how we, as an audience, end up breathing with the film, feeling its pulse and inhabiting its time.
Detailed programme

30 January 2026
The Last Blue
/Director Gabriel Mascaro  /Guest Anabela Roque
20 February 2026
Living the Land
/Director Huo Meng  /Guest Telma Carvalho
27 March 2026
Looking at the Sun (In die Sonne Schauen)
/Director Mascha Schilinski  /Guest Maria João Cantinho
17 April 2026
The Stranger
/Director François Ozon  /Guest Cristina Robalo-Cordeiro
22 May 2026
Banzo
/Director Margarida Cardoso  /Guest Margarida Cardoso
07 August 2026
Orlando Pantera
/Director Catarina Alves Costa
21 August 2026
L'Aventura
/Director Sophie Letourneur
02 October 2026
O Misterioso olhar do Flamingo
/Director Diego Céspedes
09 October 2026
Dj Ahmet
/Director Georgi M. Unkovski
30 October 2026
Surda
/Director Eva Libertad
20 November 2026
Mr. Nobody contra Putin
/Director David Borenstein & Pavel Talankin
The next films will be announced soon.
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