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"Haunting...classy psychological drama"
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"Unnerving...Witchy wisdom and Lynchian shadows... A sultry landscape"
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"Overwhelming emotional experience"
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ZANA

A Film By Antoneta Kastrati
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WORLD PREMIERE AT TIFF

KOSOVO'S OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR BEST
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE IN 2020 OSCARS
"Gutting...pulsating...
...Remarkable portrait of trauma"

The New York Times
"Profoundly moving film... Enigmatic provocation"
Sight and Sound
"Haunting...classy psychological drama"
The Hollywood Reporter
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BFI Player UK 
CURZON UK
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“Astute…unflinching… impressive debut"
Screen Daily
"Unnerving...Witchy wisdom and Lynchian shadows... A sultry landscape"
The Guardian

ZANA

A Film By Antoneta Kastrati
Haunted by her long suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality.

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Sydeny Film Festival 2020 Official Selec
Shanghai International Film Festival  20
Palm Springs International Film festival
Goteborg Film festival Official Selectio
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Trieste Film festival  Official selectio
Glasgow Film Festival 2020 Official Sele
Sarajevo Film Festival Official Selectio
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SYNOPSIS

An Albanian woman, Lume, lives with her husband, Ilir, and mother-in-law, Remzije, in their small Kosovar village. Haunted by night terrors, childless and unable to get pregnant, Lume is relentlessly pressured by Remzije to fulfill her wifely duties - if Lume cannot produce a child, her mother-in-law threatens, it will be Remzije's responsibility to bring in a younger and more eager prospective wife for her son to consider.

Bowing under the pressure of being replaced, Lume concedes to abandon modern medicine and seek the help of witch doctors and mystic healers to treat her infertility. Lume's appointments, first to a local witch doctor and then to a famed (and costly) televangelist healer, do seem to yield results as Lume finds herself pregnant at last. But while the family celebrates, Lume's long-suppressed traumas from the war slowly rise to torment her again, convincing Remzije and Ilir that Lume is possessed by evil spirits, and extreme caution must be taken to protect the unborn child.

Synopsis

PRESS

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Europe! voices of women in film

Sydney Film Festival

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Are Women Directors on the Verge of an Oscar Breakthrough?

Steve Pond

THE WRAP

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"Astute... Unflinching... Impressive debut"

Wendy Ide

SCREEN DAILY

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"Convincingly Emotional and Tender"

Vassilis Economou

CINEUROPA

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"Convincingly Emotional and Tender"

Vassilis Economou

CINEUROPA

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"Convincingly Emotional and Tender"

Vassilis Economou

CINEUROPA

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"Overwhelming emotional experience"

Dana Reinoos

CINEMA SCOPE

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"Overwhelming emotional experience"

Dana Reinoos

CINEMA SCOPE

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"Overwhelming emotional experience"

Dana Reinoos

CINEMA SCOPE

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TIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet Antoneta Kastrati – “Zana”

Jenna Dorsi

WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD

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Oscars: Kosovo Selects 'Zana' for International Feature Film Category

Nick Holdsworth

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

Reviews
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TIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet Antoneta Kastrati – “Zana”

Jenna Dorsi

WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD

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Oscars: Kosovo Selects 'Zana' for International Feature Film Category

Nick Holdsworth

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

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