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Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

Faton Bajraktari
Kosovo, Macedonia, 2016, 92 Min

Agron, a former fighter with the Kosovo Liberation Army UÇK, returns after four years in captivity. Back home the sense of delight soon gives way to practical considerations which dictate that, at least officially, this returning son is to remain a martyr of war and prisoner of his own four walls.

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Youngsters Drita and Luan are barely able to recognise their father. Blerta, the youngest of the siblings, embraces the new man of the house, even though she's hardly seen him before. All of this wouldn't necessarily be a problem, were it not for the fact that wife Ana is now earning a respectable salary as chairwoman of the local association for bereaved families, not to mention that local school principal Bashkim has applied for European funding for a new school building under the name of martyr Agron Gashi. A survivor is thus compelled to act as if he still numbered amongst the dead, and he stays at home, where Bashkim drops by to proudly speak of the designs for a memorial to be erected in his honour in the school playground.

In his first foray into feature film production, Kosovar director Faton Bajraktari has come up with a cleverly understated black comedy and intimate portrait of a society unable to move forward, bound as it is by myths of war and those who profit from the double standards of the cult of martyrdom. BB

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Zymber Kelmendi
Kamera
Latif Hasolli
Ton
Darko Spasovski
Schnitt
Blaže Dule
Musik
Darko Spasovski
Darsteller
Donat Qosja, Arta Muçaj, Shkumbin Istrefi, Lea Qosja, Susan Mustafov, Albin Bajraktari
Produzent
Trim Musliu
Produktion
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Co-Produktion
Arnel Production
Kontakt
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Trim Musliu
Muharrem Fesjza
Royal Buildings C15/13
Priština
Kosovo
Tel.: +377.4479.21 51
musliutrim@gmail.com

Faton Bajraktari

Faton Bajraktari - born 1974 in Kišna Reka, Yugoslavia. He holds degrees in film and television direction from the State University of Tetovo, Macedonia, and the University of Priština, Kosovo. His short films have won awards at numerous festivals, both at home and abroad. HOME SWEET HOME is his feature film debut.

Movies
PËRPJEKJA (2007, short)
TRI DRITARE (2010, short)
GRYKA E LLAPUSHNIKUT (2010, doc)
UDHËTIMI NË THELLËSINË E TOKËS (2010, doc)
LUFTA (2012, short)
MOREA (2013, short)
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