Monday 20th April 7.30pm

DJ Ahmet (PG)

2025 North Macedonia, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia

Dir. Georgi M. Unkovski

A touching, comic and radiantly colourful coming-of-age story about the unifying power of music. A wistful 15-year-old from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, Ahmet has a lot on his plate after the loss of his mother, including herding sheep and caring for his kid brother. Weighed down by his father’s rules, he’s also bound by their conservative wider community. He finds an unlikely refuge in music, which brings him closer to Aya but she’s already promised to someone else…

Winner of the Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award and a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision, DJ Ahmet casts a crowd-pleasing spell while sensitively exploring the realities of life in patriarchal societies. Uplifted by an extraordinary young cast and a rich soundtrack that draws on regional as well as English language songs, it dances along the line between modernity and tradition.

Tickets for this film are £6 (£1 child/student) available on the door or in advance from the Buxton Opera House box-office

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