Housekeeping for Beginners

Housekeeping for Beginners (2024) is a drama-comedy from Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski you can watch online on iFILM. Dita never wanted children. When her girlfriend dies suddenly, she is left with two girls she barely knows: tiny Mia, who wreaks chaos on a daily basis, and Vanesa, a teenager who has no interest in being parented.

Nobody hands Dita a rulebook. Anamaria Marinică plays a woman choosing care not out of readiness but out of having no one else to pass it to. The film doesn't romanticize the situation — it finds the humor and the grief in the same moments, which is harder than it sounds.

Stolevski's previous film You Won't Be Alone announced him as a director who handles unconventional family structures with unusual honesty. This multinational co-production across Australia, Croatia, North Macedonia, and Kosovo extends that approach. Stream Housekeeping for Beginners (2024) online on iFILM.