PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST: MILCHO MANCHEVSKI

Questioning the lines between fiction and reality, Bikini Moon tells the story of a New York-based documentary filmmaker and his girlfriend who take a charismatic but troubled woman into their home, turning their lives upside down. The film explores the relationship between surveillance and need for intimacy.

Milcho Manchevski is a New York-based Macedonian-born film director, writer, photographer and artist. His Academy-award nominated film Before the Rain won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, FIPRESCI and Independent Spirit, along with 30 other awards. The New York Times included it on its "1000 Best Films Ever Made" list.

Manchevski has directed four other features - Bikini Moon, Mothers, Shadows and Dust, an episode of HBO's The Wire and 50 short forms including Thursday, which was part of the Venice Feature Reloaded (2013).