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Production has begun on Hatixhe and Shaban, the third feature film by Kosovar filmmaker Visar Morina. A project that won the prestigious Baumi Award in 2022, Screen Daily confirms that production began this week — we are looking at six-week shoot in capital Pristina and the village of Sllakofc. The filmmaker reteams with thesps Astrit Kabashi and Flonja Kodheli (who topline), Alban Ukaj, Tristan Halilaj and Refet Abazi are the supporting players. Vicky Bane’s Pia Hellenthal and Morina are producing along with Schuldenberg Films’ Sophie Ahrens, Fabian Altenried and Kristof Gerega.…...

Production is underway in Kosovo on Hatixhe And Shaban, the new feature from Exile filmmaker Visar Morina.

The feature will shoot for 40 days in Kosovan capital Pristina and the village of Sllakofc. Astrit Kabashi and Flonja Kodheli lead the cast, alongside Alban Ukaj, Tristan Halilaj and Refet Abazi.

Morina wrote the film with Doruntina Basha. It follows a couple living in a village with their three daughters, who must move to the capital looking for work when a family member steals their 12 cows.

The film is produced by Morina’s company Vicky Bane that he runs with Pia Hellenthal, with Sophie Ahrens,...

Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby will start shooting next week in Malta on Ridley Scott’s film “Kitbag,” about Napoleon’s rise to power. Polish cinematographer Dariusz Adam Wolski is lensing, according to Film New Europe.

Phoenix, who plays the French emperor, and Kirby, who plays his wife Josephine, arrive in Malta this week, according to Times of Malta, quoting sources in the local film industry. The cast includes Tahar Rahim, Youssef Kerkour, John Hollingworth, Edouard Philipponnat and Alfredo Tavares. David Scarpa penned the script.

The Apple Studios production will use several locations in Malta including Attard, Senglea, Valletta, Mellieħa, Siġġiewi, Mdina, Fort Ricasoli and the Malta Film Studios, according to Times of Malta.

Filming in Malta will wrap in mid-May. Kitbag is also shooting in France and the U.K.

Scott previously used Malta as a location for “White Squall” (1996) and “Gladiator” (2000).

Macedonian Director Agim Abdula in Post With...

Joshua Marston, the director of the 2004 Oscar nominated Maria Full of Grace finally returns with his next feature length narrative, the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Screenplay winning (2011 Berlin International Film Festival) The Forgiveness of Blood, a blood feud tale set in modern day Albania. The Los Angeles native once again proves he has considerable talents for focusing on subjects not often depicted by American filmmakers, with tense, enthralling narratives. With this latest feature, Marston sets his sights on a country not often documented in the annals of cinema.

The film opens with a brief characterization of main protagonists Nik (Tristan Halilaj) and his sister, Rudina (Sindi Lacej). Both are currently students, and Nik is close to graduating from high school, discussing plans to open an internet café, and courting a female peer in his class. However, the film succumbs to its predicament rather quickly. Two patriarchs are sparring over...

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Art and activism merge in this fascinating inside portrait of China's best known artist, which conveys both the roots of Ai's provocations and the authorities' paranoid responses to them. He comes across as a fearless creator, a reluctant hero, a committed campaigner and a fallible human being, treading a perilous line between the adoring global art market and China's Kafkaesque state apparatus.

360 (15)

(Fernando Meirelles, 2011, UK/Aus/Fra/Bra) Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law. 110 mins

Suffering from a surfeit of international stars and locations, this join-the-dots drama zips between a series of emotional episodes without ever gaining much momentum.

The Dinosaur Project (12A)

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Chatty Brit explorers regret discovering a modern-day Lost World in the Congo in this low-budget cross between Monsters and Jurassic Park.

The Forgiveness Of Blood (12A)

(Joshua Marston,...

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Oct. 16, 2012

Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95

Studio: Criterion

Tristan Halilaj and Sindi Lacej are forced to grow up quickly in The Forgiveness of Blood.

A tough coming-of-age drama, 2011’s The Forgiveness of Blood is the second feature by writer-director Joshua Marston, who broke out in 2004 with his Oscar-nominated movie Maria Full of Grace, about a young Colombian woman working as a drug mule

In his follow-up to Maria, Marston turns his camera on another corner of the world: contemporary northern Albania, a place still troubled by the ancient custom of inter-familial blood feuds. From this reality, Marston sculpts a fictional narrative about a teenage brother (Tristan Halilaj) and sister (Sindi Lacej) who are physically and emotionally trapped in a cycle of violence, a result of their father’s entanglement with a rival clan over a piece of land.

The Forgiveness of Blood received a limited release to theaters in the U.

It’s obvious now, with American filmmaker Joshua Marston’s second feature -- after 2004’s extraordinarily clear-eyed Maria Full of Grace -- that he is interested in a sort of anthropological storytelling unlike anything we’re seeing onscreen these days. Maybe we’ve never seen anything like what he’s trying to do, which is to present characters and cultures alien to his audiences’ eyes in ways that render them instantly and easily recognizable and sympathetic. Here, he gives us the tale of a blood feud between two Albanian families that, as required by an ancient code that continues to sit alongside modern law, sees an entire family punished when its head, father and husband Mark (Refet Abazi) is accused of a terrible crime. With Mark on the run and in hiding, the rest of his family is under virtual house arrest. Eldest son Nik (Tristan Halilaj), a high-school senior,...

Film: The Forgiveness of Blood (2011) Cast includes: Refet Abazi, Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Ilire Vinca Celaj Director: Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) Genre: Drama, Albanian with subtitles (109 minutes) Northern Albania is a picturesque region caught between the old world and the new. Bread deliveries are made daily by primitive horse-drawn carts, while cell phones have become a necessity of life for teenagers. On his bread delivery route, the shortcut Mark takes across Sokol's land was negotiated decades ago by Mark's grandfather. Now Sokol wants to block the right of way. When Mark's teenaged son Nik helps out, they move the rocks and go through. At the local café, the men from Sokol's family sit across from Mark, Nik and Uncle Zev. The friendly jousting about the rocks has a decidedly nasty edge. Mark tells a customer, "With all due respect, Sokol is an idiot." "You're both idiots," she replies.

Title: The Forgiveness of Blood Director: Joshua Marston Starring: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi, Zana Hasaj, Veton Osmani, Ilire Vinca Celaj, Cun Lajci Winner of the Silver Bear Award for Best Screenplay at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, “The Forgiveness of Blood,” from writer-director Joshua Marston (“Maria Full of Grace”), details a simmering contempt between two present day Albanian clans — think the Montagues and Capulets, minus any love story – that boils over into a blood feud that slowly rips a family apart when a land dispute leaves one man dead. Like 2009′s “The Stoning of Soraya M” and “Ajami,” as well as a small handful of other foreign films, Marston’s movie...

The Forgiveness of Blood

Directed by: Joshua Marston

Cast: Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, Refet Abazi

Running Time: 1 hr 50 min

Rating: Not Rated

Showtimes at Piff: 2/10 8:30pm at Cinemagic, 2/12 5:00pm at Lloyd Center Complete Piff Schedule

Plot: After years of bickering, Mark and his brother kill their neighbor over a land dispute. He runs from police, and incurs a blood debt, meaning any males in his family could be killed to make things even. This forces his sons to stay inside, and his daughter must quit school and work to keep the family afloat.

Who’S It For? The kids seem remarkably similar to American teens, making the film really relatable.

Overall

Marston’s last feature, Maria Full of Grace, felt like a foreign film though it took place in the Us. This time, he shoots the whole film in Albania, with no English at all. A family falls...

The Forgiveness of Blood Trailer. Joshua Marston‘s The Forgiveness of Blood (2011) movie trailer stars Refet Abazi, Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej, and Ilire Vinca Celaj. The Forgiveness of Blood‘s plot synopsis: “This film’s center is a family in Albania. The main characters are Rudina, the oldest daughter, and Nik, the oldest son. Both have a pretty normal life. Rudina is an A-student in high-school and Nik very popular. He just fell in love with one of his fellow students. Their father earns the families income with a little bread delivery service. For that he uses a short cut through the neighbours ground, but the neighbour doesn’t necessarily like that. But the ground had actually belonged to Rudina’s and Nik’s family once.

One day the conflict escalates and the neighbour gets killed by Rudina’s and Nik’s father and their uncle. Because only their uncle...

It is has been quite some time since seeing the work of director Joshua Marston. Outside of a segment in the anthology New York, I Love You, his work hasn’t hit the big screen since the Oscar-nominated Maria Full of Grace. He finally returns this year with the family drama The Forgiveness of Blood. Premiering at the Berlin Film Festival (and nabbing a Silver Bear for Best Screenplay), it is has gone on to appear at Telluride, Toronto, London and more.

The trailer has hit via Apple and it looks like a tense drama with strong characters, not unlike his previous film. I haven’t heard much buzz for it outside of festivals, so I wonder if it lives up to his other work, but we’ll be able to check it out next month via IFC Films. See the trailer and poster below for the film starring Tristan Halilaj,...

Poster for Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood, starring Tristan Halilaj. The winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at last year's Berlin Film Festival gets its first poster. Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) directs as well as scripting alongside Andamion Murataj. Sindi Laçej, Refet Abazi, Ilire Vinca Çelaj and Çun Lajçi complete the main cast of the drama produced by Paul Mezey, co-produced by Gwen Bialic and Andamion Murataj, and executive produced by Eric Abraham, Janine Gold, Domenico Procacci, Hunter Gray and Tyler Brodie. The film opens February 24th. The powerful and richly textured second feature focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute.

Poster for Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood, starring Tristan Halilaj. The winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at last year's Berlin Film Festival gets its first poster. Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) directs as well as scripting alongside Andamion Murataj. Sindi Laçej, Refet Abazi, Ilire Vinca Çelaj and Çun Lajçi complete the main cast of the drama produced by Paul Mezey, co-produced by Gwen Bialic and Andamion Murataj, and executive produced by Eric Abraham, Janine Gold, Domenico Procacci, Hunter Gray and Tyler Brodie. The film opens February 24th. The powerful and richly textured second feature focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute.

Poster for Joshua Marston's The Forgiveness of Blood, starring Tristan Halilaj. The winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at last year's Berlin Film Festival gets its first poster. Joshua Marston (Maria Full of Grace) directs as well as scripting alongside Andamion Murataj. Sindi Laçej, Refet Abazi, Ilire Vinca Çelaj and Çun Lajçi complete the main cast of the drama produced by Paul Mezey, co-produced by Gwen Bialic and Andamion Murataj, and executive produced by Eric Abraham, Janine Gold, Domenico Procacci, Hunter Gray and Tyler Brodie. The film opens February 24th. The powerful and richly textured second feature focuses on an Albanian family caught up in a blood feud. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) is a carefree teenager in a small town with a crush on the school beauty and ambitions to start his own internet café. His world is suddenly up-ended when his father and uncle become entangled in a land dispute.

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"The Forgiveness of Blood," Joshua Marston's follow-up to "Maria Full of Grace," has been acquired by Sundance Selects. It was announced today that the film - which won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay at the 2011 Berlin International Film Festival - villa be released in the U.S. via Selects, a sister division to IFC Films and IFC Midnight. "Blood" stars Tristan Halilaj, Sindi Lacej and Refet Abazi. It was ...