Three Windows and a Hanging

In a traditional village in Kosovo in 2000, a year after the war, and as people are rebuilding their lives, female school teacher Lushe is driven by her conscience to give an interview to an international journalist, telling her that she and three other women from the village were raped by Serbian forces. When the news is publicized and the male villagers realize that it was Lushe who spoke to the journalist, they turn their backs on her, stop talking to her, refuse to send their children to her class, and demand that she and her young son leave the village. At the same time, they try to find out if their own wives were among those raped. This pressure continues until Ilir, Lushe’s husband, who was being held as a prisoner of war, returns home. The men try to persuade Ilir to divorce Lushe...
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Script: Zymber Kelmendi
Cinematography: Gokhan Tiryaki
Editing: Agron Vula
Sound: Igor Popovski
Actors: Irena Cahani (Lushe), Luan Jaha (Uka), Donat Qosja(Sokoli)
Production: CMB, UNMI Kosovo T.-F.+381 38 225 611 info@cmbonline.net www.cmbonline.net
Producers: Shkumbin Istrefi, Mentor Shala
Co-production: Nicole Gerhards, NikoFILM/Germany T. +49 30 2758 2836 F. +49 30 2758 2872
Art Direction: Zeni Ballazhi
Format: DCP Color
Production Country: UNMI Kosovo-Germany
Production Year: 2014
Duration: 93
Contact: CMB, UNMI KosovoT.-F. +381 38 225 611info@cmbonline.netwww.cmbonline.net
Awards
Best Pitch Award – Connecting Cottbus Co-Production Market, Cottbus IFF 2012, Germany
Cineuropa Award – Sarajevo IFF 2014, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Isa Qosja

Born in Vutjah, Montenegro, in 1947. He graduated from the Higher School of Dramatic Arts and Acting in Prishtina and holds a degree in theater and film directing from the Film Academy in Belgrade. He began his career as a stage, short and documentary film director in the 1980s. His 2005 feature Kukumi received a Special Jury Award at the 11th Sarajevo FF, the Best Film and Best Director awards at the 2006 Albanian FF in Tirana, and the Regione del Veneto Award at the 2005 Venice IFF.

Filmography

1980 Status Quo (short)
1980 Stafeta 80 (doc)
1983 TV Interview (short)
1985 Proka
1987 Project e Mjeguelles
1999 Dy Prefime dhe nje Nuse (doc)
2001 Muzgu I Tokave Tona (doc)
2005 Kukumi
2014 Tri Dritare dhe nje Varje/Three Windows and a Hanging