The Tale of Silyan

In a village in North Macedonia, a farmer named Nikola takes in a white stork with a broken wing. He feeds it, shelters it, and slowly the two become inseparable. Around them the fields are worked, the potatoes are sorted, the seasons turn, and the storks that return each spring to the rooftops carry an older story with them.

The film draws on a Macedonian folk tale about a man turned into a stork. It stays close to Nikola and the bird, grounded and unhurried, and lets the larger questions of migration, belonging and how people and animals share a landscape arrive on their own.