Sanela Emin
Known For & Full Filmography4 Titles
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • as Hava
Dita, who, despite never aspiring to be a mother, finds herself compelled to raise her girlfriend’s two daughters—Mia, a tiny troublemaker, and Vanesa, a rebellious teenager. As their individual wills clash, a heartwarming story unfolds about an unlikely family's struggle to stay together.
Movie - 2007, 2h 15m • as Refidže
Macedonian issues of today. One country, many tenants, many opinions, many customs! This building, metaphorically representing Macedonia, is home to Macedonians with all their weaknesses, virtues and good qualities.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Mother of Hanis
Adela (11), a Romani girl from Skopje, lives in a ghetto with her mother and older sister, Zara. When her family faces a financial crisis, Adela’s mother is sure that the only solution is to sell Zara at the bridal market. Adela can’t accept this destiny for her older sister and takes matters into her own hands. After a few unsuccessful attempts to find a job, she decides to join a skateboarding contest even though, in her culture, skateboarding is frowned upon for girls. The only way she can learn how to skate and have a chance to win the contest is if she befriends the gang of skater girls from her school. Adela starts navigating between the two different cultures, where she finds herself caught between two very different models of femininity.
Movie - 2013, 2h 15m • as Herself
The streets of Roma neighborhoods are full of life; children play in the yards but once the doors of the ramshackle houses are closed, violence reigns. This is a film about women who are victims of their own love, the twisted understanding of tradition and marriage, the life on the margins of society where justice is 'well-behaved' and does not intend to meddle in the marital relations. The various stories of women from different generations, held in captivity by their hopelessness, supported by their husbands' chauvinistic views, promise faithfully that the culture of family violence will persist, be nurtured, and go on...