ZANA by Antoneta Kastrati
Drama Horror 97' 15+ KO AL Albanian
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's Official entry for Best International Feature In 2020 OSCARS
Film Des Femmes 21, FIC Galdar 21,Tirana 2020, Mostra de València 20, Haifa 20, Sarajevo 20, Shanghai 20, New Zealand 20, Sydney 20, Fantaspoa 20, San Francisco 20, Glasgow 20, Crossing Europe 20, Goteborg 20, Trieste 20, Palm Springs 20, 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. ZANA is her feature-length debut, which had its world premiere in the Discovery section of the 44th TIFF


Directed by

Antoneta Kastrati


Starring:

Adriana Matoshi

Astrit Kabashi

Fatmire Sahiti


Produced By Crossing Bridges Films

Co-produced By On Film Prodcution

and alief


Supported by

Kosovo Cinematography Center

Albanian National Center of Cinematography

PANAVISION New Filmmaker Grant

SFFILM Rainin GrantT

City of Peja

Light Iron

MIDPOINT