BIKINI MOON

By Milcho MANCHEVSKI

RLJ ENTERTAINMENT - as DISTR

Drama - Completed 2017

A charismatic homeless woman (Bikini Moon) captures the attention of a documentary film crew who are ready to exploit her story for their own shot at independent movie fame in this very modern, urban fairy tale.

Festivals
& Awards

Fantasporto 2018
Director's Week Competition. Special Jury Award
Sofia IFF 2018
Cinema Today - Masters
Cinequest 2018
Official Selection
FEST Belgrade 2018
Official Selection
Istanbul Film Festival 2018
Official Selection
Sarasota Film Festival 2018
Official Selection
Nashville Film Festival 2018
Official Selection
Syracuse International Film Festival 2018
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Drama, Social issues, Experimental
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Budget
    • 0.6 - 1 M$
    • Duration
    • 102 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Milcho MANCHEVSKI
    • Writer(s)
    • Milcho MANCHEVSKI, Will ROSENTHAL
    • Producer(s)
    • Munire ARMSTRONG (YN Films), Anja WEDELL (Czar Film)
    • Synopsis
    • At a homeless drop-in centre in New York City, a documentary crew finds Bikini Moon Davis, looking for help and a place to stay. With wide, lively eyes and a broad smile, Bikini is provocative, bold, and dynamic – and also clearly in a troubled mental state. Claiming she drove a forklift in the Iraq war and was trained as a carpenter – “just like Jesus, with tits” – she’s been on and off the streets, and hopes to stabilize her life and get back her young daughter from a foster home.

      Presented as a documentary that unravels, reveals, and reimagines itself alongside its unpredictable subject, BIKINI MOON’s film-within-a-film structure unpacks and examines the way we look at the world through media that demands to be seen as reality while asking the uncomfortable questions about the often deplorable relationship between media and its subjects.

      BIKINI MOON is most effective because it challenges viewers on an intellectual level while still maintaining a visceral emotional grip.