Archive: Year 2021
BALKAN DOX
Reconciliation
Odpuščanje
Director
Marija Zidar
Producer
Danijel Hočevar
Cinematographer
Latif Hasolli
Editor
Uroš Maksimović
Sound
Jovo Kljajić
Julij Zornik
Miloš Drobnjaković
Website
2021
Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo
82 min
Color
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.
Director
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.
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