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Documentary Highlights Elderly Farmer's Struggles and Folktales
10/31/2025
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Story summary
- Tamara Kotevska's documentary The Tale of Silyan follows Nikola, an elderly man in North Macedonia, and a stork.
- Nikola struggles to maintain his family farm after relatives migrate to Germany for work.
- The story parallels a Macedonian folktale about a son turned into a stork.
- Kotevska shifts from documenting globalization to intimate moments, including a Facetime call where Nikola's wife is urged to join them.
