Iron Castle
TITLE
Iron Castle
DIRECTOR
Mitko K. Panov
COUNTRY
North Macedonia, Switzerland, USA
YEAR
2025
DURATION
105′
GENRE
Docufiction
Iron Castle
"A film you don’t have to see, about place you don’t have to visit, and people you will never forget.” A seriously entertaining hybrid feature that questions what is 'real' in a story that begins like a documentary about Filmmaking as Therapy, for psychiatric patients, and ends like a fairytale, testing viewers' perception throughout.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Mitko K. Panov
One of Macedonia's most internationally recognized auteurs, Mitko Panov trained at Poland's legendary Łódź Film School under masters Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Kawalerowicz. His Palme d'Or-winning short "With Raised Hands" launched a career spanning NYU, UT Austin, and co-founding the New York Film Academy's intensive program. Films like Yield, The Meadow, Comrades, The Witness, and The War is Over explore universal human struggles through a distinctly Balkan lens.
- DirectorMitko K. Panov
- ScreenplayMitko K. Panov
- CinematographyFejmi Daut, Elena Monicelli
- CastPaul Gordon, Sinolicka Trpkova, Igor Dzambazov
- EditingDejan Smileski
- Producer/s Mitko Panov
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleIron Castle
- Project TypeDocufiction
- Completion Date01 Oct 2025
- Country of originNorth Macedonia, Switzerland, USA
- Country of filmingNorth Macedonia, Switzerland, USA
- LanguageEnglish, Macedonian
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Mitko K. Panov
One of Macedonia's most internationally recognized auteurs, Mitko Panov trained at Poland's legendary Łódź Film School under masters Andrzej Wajda and Jerzy Kawalerowicz. His Palme d'Or-winning short "With Raised Hands" launched a career spanning NYU, UT Austin, and co-founding the New York Film Academy's intensive program. Films like Yield, The Meadow, Comrades, The Witness, and The War is Over explore universal human struggles through a distinctly Balkan lens.
