A shy immigrant girl's crush becomes a hallucinatory fever dream you'll never shake.
Ina, an introverted 11-year-old immigrant, finds herself captivated by Petra, a new classmate coming from the same country as her. Faced with the newcomer’s indifference towards her, Ina embarks on a desperate quest for connection in a world oscillating between dream and reality.
Direction
Shkurti blurs mundane school halls into psychological terrain.
Acting
Nichita's stillness contains multitudes of unspoken want.
Cinematography
Reality warps through Ina's gaze—subjective and suffocating.
Director
Vjosana Shkurti
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'Ofrandă' means 'offering/sacrifice' in Romanian, framing Ina's pursuit as ritualized self-annihilation.
Director Shkurti drew from her own immigrant childhood, specifically the crushing invisibility of being the 'same' as someone who rejects that sameness.
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