Housekeeping for Beginners: Director Goran Stolevski on balancing the specific and the universal

Housekeeping for Beginners is the third feature in as many years and genres from celebrated Australian Macedonian director and screenwriter Goran Stolevski. In addition to Housekeeping for Beginners winning the Queer Lion, Goran Stolevski's prior film Of An Age won the $100,000 Best Film award at CinefestOz in 2022. "In the same way that I don't really use colour filters to prioritise one colour, I wouldn't want to just have one feeling dominating to that extent," he says. Of an Age: review Photo shows White woman in red ballroom dress, white man in black t-shirt and jeans, and Serbian man in black ballroom suit stand oustide Australian director Goran Stolevski paints a tender portrait of young queer love in 90s suburban Melbourne in this coming-of-age movie.