Aga’s House
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An isolated mountain location in Kosovo offers the ideal conditions for a bastion of matriarchy to be established. Four women have been living in this “refuge” for some time: Emira, firmly oriented towards the pleasures of life, her best friend Lumja, the 70-year-old Gjyla, a widow forced to abandon her family home after her son was killed in the war, and the nurturing Kumrija, mother to the only male of the house – the nine-year-old Aga. The latter is forced to comprehend what adulthood truly is (perhaps bridging the past with the future) through unexpected ways, when a middle-aged Croatian woman arrives at the refuge, sowing the seed of doubt within the heart of this unconventional family. A holistic, edgy, uncompromising drama that gives voice to the members of society who have never experienced what “representation” means (either on- or off-screen), as they struggle to find their place in a precarious peace, cast in the shadow of collective trauma. The underlying tension in a film where a gurgle of laughter is heard, simmers brilliantly.
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Makedonikon
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*This designation is without prejudice to positions on status and is in line with UNSC Resolution 1244/1999 and the ICJ opinion on the Kosovo declaration of independence.
Lendita Zeqiraj
Lendita Zeqiraj is an award-winning film director, declared National Filmmaker of the Year 2014, and winner of the Annual Film Excellence Award for Cinematic Achievements by the Kosovo Ministry of Culture. She has worked on a number of shorts and documentary films, which have participated at over 300 International Film Festivals, such as the International Film Festivals in Venice, Telluride, AFI FEST, Palm Springs, Warsaw, Oberhausen, Hamptons, winning prizes at several of them.
2003 Exit (short)
2009 Cry for Recognition (short doc)
2011 We're Not in Paradise (short doc)
2013 Another Chance (short doc)
2013 Balcony (short)
2018 Fence (short)
2019 Aga's House
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