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.
Direction
Kastrati's debut weaponizes silence and goat bells.
Acting
Matoshi's stare could stop your heart mid-beat.
Sound
The score breathes like something waiting behind you.
Director
Antoneta Kastrati
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Kastrati based the film on her own family's experience surviving the Kosovo War; her sister co-wrote.
The 'blood moon' ritual uses actual Kosovar folk practices—Kastrati consulted elders who remembered these ceremonies from the 1990s.
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