80 minutes to destroy everything you think you know about victimhood.
Through the eyes of Era, a resilient yet fragile woman, the audience is introduced to a dystopian reality where victims and perpetrators of violence are intertwined, and the boundaries between guilt and innocence become blurred.
Acting
Luli Bitri's face does what pages of dialogue cannot.
Direction
Sijarina keeps you trapped in Era's suffocating subjectivity.
Director
Ismet Sijarina
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sijarina emerged from Kosovo's post-conflict cinema wave, where directors use intimate family dramas to process collective national trauma without explicit war imagery.
The 80-minute runtime isn't austerity — it's calculated. Sijarina studied under the Dardenne brothers, and this compression forces moral confrontation without narrative escape routes.
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