MONTH OF EUROPEAN FILM 2023

Kino ARMATA

Thursday, 30 November 2023, 19:00h

MONTH OF EUROPEAN FILM 2023

The Canarries Know (2014), 17 min.

Vera Dreams of the Sea (2021), 87 min.

Language: Albanian

Subtitles: English

Directed by: Kaltrina Krasniqi

As part of the Month of European Film at Kino ARMATA between 1 November - 9 December, a project initiated in cooperation with the European Film Academy, in cooperation with Kosovo Cinematography Center we screen films The Canaries Know (2014) and Vera Dreams of the Sea (2021), directed by Kaltrina Krasniqi.

ABOUT 'THE CANARIES KNOW'

It has been 10 years of occupation; now finally, the agreement is signed. Tonight the country will be bombed. A Pristina family found themselves in this event kind of unprepared. However, in fear, they decide to call it a celebration, only the two boys, Arber and Tomor, don't. They play the detached and the cynical. The first bomb falls, and everyone knows that nothing will ever be the same again.

ABOUT 'VERA DREAMS OF THE SEA'

Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive mother, and a caring grandmother. Her serene life is disrupted by her husband’s suicide followed by an unwelcome, menacing parade of men who claim to have ownership over their village family house. When the tendrils of an underworld scheme begin to surface, Vera’s world will face danger and seem ready to collapse. Fear and mistrust will force Vera to take the family’s fate into her own hands. The film is an intimate yet universal portrait of a woman, who has to face the raw reality of going against the deep-seated gender issues of our times.