Completed - ALBANIAN, DUTCH, ENGLISH - Family, First film, Drama - 85 minutes
A lonely teenage boy, who lives in Amsterdam with his refugee mother from Kosovo, keeps getting into trouble while yearning for her acceptance. But the traumas caused by the war, which his mother initially hides away from him, turn his world upside down.
Year of production : 2017 Director(s) : Edon RIZVANOLLI Cast : Adriana MATOSHI, Jason DE RIDDER, Niki VERKAAR Producer(s) : Edon RIZVANOLLI (Asfaltfilms)
Teenager Alban lives in Amsterdam with his mother Zana, who left Kosovo during the war in the Balkans and no longer has any contact with her family back home. A troublemaker at school, Alban doesn’t really fit in with his classmates; he’s an aggressive loner but also a dreamer who prefers just to hang about town. When he starts going out with the perceptive Ana, things start to look up. But then clouds begin to gather over the young couple’s sincere romance, casting shadows of their parents’ unresolved past that can still cause pain even twenty years later and in an entirely different country.
Country(ies) : KOSOVO, NETHERLANDS
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Karlovy Vary IFF 2017 East of the West - CompetitionCairo IFF 2017Prifilmfest 2017 (Honey & Blood)Netherlands Film Festival 2017