Gjorce Stavreski

Gjorce Stavreski is a film director based in Skopje, Macedonia. Graduated from the department of film direction at the Faculty
of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. An awarded film and video professional who has made films, documentaries and commercials, working as director, producer and screenwriter. His films have been screened in many festivals throughout the world where he has won international awards.

His feature debut SECRET INGREDIENT received international acclaim: in just over a year it was selected at 56 film festivals winning
17 international awards.It was a Macedonian foreign language Oscar candidate and the first Macedonian film shown on HBO. Distributed theatrically in Italy, Spain and South Korea.

Gjorce is a recipient of a prestigious national award for math and sciences and a diehard Sudoku fan.

Swap

LIM | Less is More 2019

On his last day in prison, Bobby, a computer scientist turned kleptomaniac and alcoholic, learns of a weird method that can help if the things go wrong. An offbeat prison counsellor tells Bobby he should swap something he cares about. Then swap again. And after 10 swaps it will set him free from the urge to steal and drink.

Prison authorities find Bobby a lousy job and an apartment. One night, depressed, he steals a bottle of bourbon from a supermarket.
He’s about to open the bottle in a nearby park when a young woman shows up and he decides to test the swaps. They have a charming chat. Nina gives him a book and her phone number in exchange for the liquor. Bobby dates Nina and continues to swap.

A whole world of weird characters opens up to him: a junky filmmaker, an amputated woman, a musician hooked on porn. Bobby exchanges not only things, but emotions as well. The weird method seems to work: he has a girl, a job, a bright new life. But on the last swap, he has to trade his newfound peace with the darkness of his past.