DJ Ahmet

Georgi M.
Unkovski

Georgi M. Unkovski is a Macedonian award winning writer and director, whose work has been featured at over 200 international film festivals, HBO and MTV. Born in 1988 in New York, Unkovski graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology -Eastman’s School of Photography, in the field of the Fine Arts. Shortly after his graduation he moved to the Czech Republic to pursue his passion in filmmaking and enrolled in the post graduate program at renowned university of FAMU in Prague. Since his studies Unkovski lives in Skopje, Macedonia and works as a full time director for one of the leading advertising agencies in the country - FUTURA 2/2 and Cinema Futura - a local production house dedicated to making films. Unkovski is a Sundance Alumni and hislast short film STICKER has won over 50 International Awards. DJ AHMET is his first feature film.

In a remote mountain village, 15-year-old Ahmet struggles to fulfill the role his strict father has assigned him following his mother’s death. But when he discovers a secret nighttime techno party, a world of music, freedom, and new possibilities opens up to him. Together with the fearless Aya, he finds in the rhythm both an escape and the courage to forge his own path. This energetic coming-of-age story pulses with music and captures the search for identity and the desire to break free from established rules.