After a long experience in producing various documentaries, such as "Seeking Magic", "The Kingdom of Coal", "Laleh", or short films such as "Empty Kofi" and "She Comes In Spring", the director and screenwriter Antoneta Kastrati challenged herself with a feature film. Currently "Zana" is the most talked about movie in Kosovo cinemas, with over 2000 tickets sold in just a few days.
The film, supported by the Kosovo Film Center and the Albanian Film Center, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time and is Kosovo's chosen to compete at the Oscars.
"Zana" sets events in a village in Peja, where a woman named Lume (Adriana Matoshi) faces the horrors of post-war Kosovo as she tries to get pregnant. She lost her only child long ago. The events are set a decade after the Kosovo War, at a time when River and her husband (Astrit Kabashi) decide to find the cause of her infertility.
Desperate for a baby, River abandons modern medicine and decides to resort to the popular, subject to exorcism rituals to dispel black magic, which is said to be the reason she can't have children.
The subject of "Zana" brings back the horrors of the past that are reflected in the portrait of the protagonist (Adriana Matoshi). Director Kastrati said in an interview that "the film is a personal reflection on the past".
We add that the role of Lume is the most difficult role of Matoshi, one of the Albanian actresses with extraordinary ability to get into the character's skin, at the same time winning many prestigious awards .
To bring such a role to the most natural way possible, actress i shot for months below 29 degrees Celsius. In an interview with Oxygen, Adriana said: "In the movie 'Zana' I have had one of my most difficult roles to date. I have the role of a mother who loses her child during the war and faces post-war consequences, with nightmares and dreams. It was difficult because it is a heavy role. The scenes have also been difficult to experience as an actress. I shoot in the winter, very cold, we shoot in a village in Peja at night. I entered the water where there was only ice. My fingers were burning from the ice. Turnover under the presence of a doctor. Not to mention how difficult the role was to experience. I had to focus and get into the role with a spirit that the public would later believe. "
After watching the trailer, you will hope that Zana will be in theaters soon.
