ZANA
Antoneta Kastrati
Drama Horror 97' 15+
Kosovo Albania Albanian with English Subs
Awards Special Jury Prize - Films De Femmes 2021, Best Feature - FIC Galdar 2021, Jury Grand Prize -SEEfest 2020, Best Actress - Fantaspoa 2020, Best Feature - Tirana 2020, Best Actress - Mostra de Valencia 2020, Audience Award - GoEast 2020, Kosovo Oscar Submission 2020
Festivals Film Des Femmes 2021, FIC Galdar 2021,Tirana 2020, Mostra de València 2020, Haifa 2020, Sarajevo 2020, Shanghai 2020, New Zealand 2020, EFP Europe! Voices of Women in Film: Sydney 2020, Glasgow 2020, Crossing Europe 2020, Goteborg 2020, Trieste 2020, Palm Springs 2020, WP TIFF 2019

A woman struggles with motherhood, death and the aftermath of war.

Haunted by her long-suppressed past and pressured by family to seek treatment from mystical healers for her infertility, a Kosovar woman struggles to reconcile the expectations of motherhood with a legacy of wartime brutality, in this deeply personal feature debut.


Los Angeles-based Kosovar writer-filmmaker Antoneta Kastrati, a survivor of the 1999 war, has directed a series of socially relevant documentaries on post-war Kosovar society, alongside her sister Sevdije Kastrati. ZANA [+] is her feature-length debut, which had its world premiere in the Discovery section of the 44th Toronto International Film Festival.