Kosovo has submitted Antoneta Kastrati's feature debut Zana for international feature category in the 92nd Academy Awards.
Kosovo has submitted Antoneta Kastrati's feature debutThe film, a co-production with neighboring Albania, follows the story of Lume, an Albanian woman who lives with her husband and mother in law in a village.
Desperate for a child, she and her family abandon modern medicine and turn to a traditional healer for help, where Lume undergoes elaborate rituals and exorcisms to rid her of the black magic believed to be causing her infertility.Kastrati says the film, which comes on the 20th anniversary of the Kosovo War, is "an attempt to reflect on my personal wartime past."
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