Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo/ 2021/82’
DIRECTED BY: Marija Zidar
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Latif Hasolli
EDITED BY: Uroš Maksimović
SOUND: Miloš Drobnjaković, Julij Zornik, Jovo Kljajić
MUSIC: Dimitrije Vasiljević
PRODUCERS: Danijel Hočevar, Latif Hasolli, Jelena Mitrović, Drita Llolla
PRODUCED BY: Vertigo (Slovenia), RTV Slovenia, Dera Film (Kosovo), Film House Baš Čelik (Serbia), Seagull Entertainment (Montenegro)
FESTIVALS & AWARDS: CPH:DOX, Denmark; One World FF, Czech Republic; Dokufest Prizren (Balkan Dox Competition Award), Sarajevo Film Festival, BIH; MakeDox (Young Onion Award Special Mention); Tetova International Film Festival ODA (Best Documentary Award), Sofia DocuMental (Best Female Director Award), International Documentary Film Festival – Beldocs.
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An 18-year-old girl is killed in a bitter family feud in the Albanian highlands. Her bereaved father is torn by the pressures from a local bishop and an NGO chairman from the capital, not only to forgive the imprisoned killer and his family, as a Christian, but to reconcile with them – as the age-old tribal code, Kanun, once required. A poignant and insightful account of a patriarchal society caught between a lingering past and a precarious present.
Marija Zidar (1976) is a Slovenian filmmaker. Her background is in Journalism (BA in Journalism; BA in English Language and Literature) – and she has a Ph.D. in Sociology at the University of Ljubljana. She is passionate about presenting thoroughly investigated social issue stories through intimate, sensitive and empathetic visual storytelling. She has written three mid-length documentaries for Television Slovenia and directed one. ‘Reconciliation’, shot in Albania since 2014, is the debut feature documentary.