Blerta Basholli’s follow-up to her 2021 Sundance winner Hive, Dua, delivers a portrait of a teenage girl’s daily routine as disrupted by the increasing marginalisation she experiences in her own environment during the Kosovo War. The film is set in late 1990s Prishtina, where Kosovar Albanian families live under Serbian police violence and the constant threat of exile. Dua (Pinea Matoshi), thirteen, wants the ordinary freedoms of early adolescence. She wants to belong at school, to understand her changing body and to move through her city without fear.
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Venice 2023 Review: “Housekeeping for Beginners”
“A gay man and a lesbian woman walk to the altar together” might sound like the setup for a joke, but in Goran Stolevski’s serious drama “Housekeeping for Beginners,” it’s a central moment in a jarring journey into the world of marginalized people in contemporary North Macedonia. Making a return to his motherland after having directed two successful queer features in Australia, Stolevski brilliantly maneuvers through the intersecting lines of discrimination faced by the LGBTQ+ and Roma communities, delivering a daring portrayal of a group of people who do not fit in.
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