An 18-year-old girl is killed in a bitter family feud in the Albanian highlands. Her bereaved father is torn by the pressures from a local bishop and an NGO chairman from the capital, not only to forgive the imprisoned killer and his family, as a Christian, but to reconcile with them – as the age-old tribal code, Kanun, once required. A poignant and insightful account of a patriarchal society caught between a lingering past and a precarious present.
| Producer: |
Danijel Hočevar |
| Director: |
Marija Zidar |
| Script: |
Marija Zidar |
| Camera: |
Latif Hasolli
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| Editing: |
Uroš Maksimović
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| Director of photography: |
Latif Hasolli |
| Others: |
Co-editor: Mariana Kozáková
Sound: Miloš Drobnjaković, Julij Zornik, Jovo Kljajić
Composer: Dimitrije Vasiljević
Colorist: Teo Rižnar
Co-producers: Latif Hasolli, Jelena Mitrović, Drita Llolla
Associate Producer: Katja Lenarčič
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Reconciliation is the feature debut of Marija Zidar (1976), which she began filming in Albania in 2014. She is a director and, together with Ervin Hladnik Milharčič, co-writer of the documentary Tihotapci identitete about the Slovenian-Italian border. She was a screenwriter for documentaries produced by RTV Slovenia (Govoreče glave; Otroštvo; Lačni upora; dir. Dušan Moravec), and she participated in the film workshops dok.incubator and BDC Discoveries with the film Reconciliation. She has a doctorate in sociology and a university degree in English and journalism (University of Ljubljana), she also worked in production in the field of performing arts, she is a former journalist for Delo and its Sobotna priloga.
