Now Available on Demand
WORLD PREMIERE AT TIFF
KOSOVO'S OFFICIAL ENTRY FOR BEST
INTERNATIONAL FEATURE IN 2020 OSCARS
USA/CANADA
"Haunting...classy psychological drama"
The Hollywood Reporter
"Unnerving...Witchy wisdom and Lynchian shadows... A sultry landscape"
The Guardian
GERMANY
BFI Player UK
CURZON UK
"Overwhelming emotional experience"
Cinema Scope
“Astute…unflinching… impressive debut"
Screen Daily
"Gripping... fresh, visceral and vital"
Time Out
ZANA
A Film By Antoneta Kastrati
Now Available on Demand
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
BFI Player UK
CURZON UK
“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.
TRAILER
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.
PRESS
"Convincingly Emotional and Tender"
Vassilis Economou
CINEUROPA
"Overwhelming emotional experience"
Dana Reinoos
CINEMA SCOPE
TIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet Antoneta Kastrati – “Zana”
Jenna Dorsi
WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD
Oscars: Kosovo Selects 'Zana' for International Feature Film Category
Nick Holdsworth
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
TIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet Antoneta Kastrati – “Zana”
Jenna Dorsi
WOMEN AND HOLLYWOOD
Oscars: Kosovo Selects 'Zana' for International Feature Film Category
Nick Holdsworth
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
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