SHPIA E AGËS

A handful of women live in solitude, cut off from the world and, above all, male influence. Only nine-year-old Aga, son of Kumria, lives with them. The men have died in war, migrated to other countries or they are just not allowed to entrance the house. The women gossip, chat, smoke and quarrel. And yet, what actually happened in the past, that is only gradually revealed. Triggered by a roommate’s attempted suicide and an interview with foreign journalists the tragedies of the past finally come to light. Aga, as the only man in the house, is in this multi-protagonist film the outsider: a minority within a minority.

Kosovar filmmaker Lendita Zeqiraj, the recipient of numerous awards for her short films FENCE and BALCONY, also dedicates her first feature film to the supposedly weaker members of society: women and children. While the former, in the absence of men forced upon them by war and migration, display the courage to talk about their experiences, fears and desires, Aga experiences a void. The boy lacks a father figure and leaves no stone unturned in his search for one beyond the four walls of home. NaF