La beauté de l'âne
The Beauty of the Donkey
Switzerland / United States / Kosovo / France, Planned for 3rd quarter 2025
FILM,
Fiction, Documentary,
77 min.
- directed by
- Dea Gjinovci
- Written by
- Dea Gjinovci
- Status
- In distribution
A lyrical hybrid documentary tracing a daughter's journey to reconnect with her father’s lost homeland. After sixty years in exile, Asllan returns with his daughter, Dea, to Makermal, the Kosovar village he once called home. They set out to revive his idyllic childhood memories, working with villagers to reconstruct a world erased by war. As playful re-enactments give way to haunting revelations, Dea and Asllan confront the painful disappearance of a beloved matriarch and the collective scars of a community grappling with memory and loss. The film becomes a moving meditation on the fragile architecture of remembrance, blending cinema du reel with magical realism.
credits
- World Premiere
- Planned for 3rd quarter 2025
- Original Version
- Albanian, French (albanian/french/english subtitles), colour, DCP, 77 min.
- ISAN
- 0000-0006-38E6-0000-Y-0000-0000-9
- Production
- Astrae Productions, Unseen SH.P.K., Haut et Court, RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Facet, LLC
- Producer
- Dea Gjinovci, Palmyre Badinier, Ilir Hasanaj, Emmanuelle Lepers
- directed by
- Dea Gjinovci
- Written by
- Dea Gjinovci
- Cinematography
- Maxime Kathari
- Editing
- Lizi Gelber
- Location Sound Mix
- Ilù Seydoux
- Music
- Gaël Kyriakidis
- Production Design
- Aurélia Martin, Jesse Wallace
- Costumes
- Njomza Haziraj
World Sales / World Rights
- World Rights
- Astrae Productions