Kosovo has selected Amsterdam-based actor-turned-director Edon Rizvanolli's Unwanted as its candidate for foreign-language film Oscar consideration.
The social drama tells the story of a teenage boy from Kosovo, Alban (Jason De Ridder), living in exile in Holland with his mother, Zana (Adriana Matoshi). Although they both left Kosovo during the Balkan Civil War, when Alban begins a romance with a sensitive young woman, Anna, neither realize that unresolved injustices and dark memories of the past lie just beneath the surface.
The film marks Kosovo's fourth submission to the Oscars and was produced by Pristina-based 1244 Productions and Dutch company Asfalt...
The social drama tells the story of a teenage boy from Kosovo, Alban (Jason De Ridder), living in exile in Holland with his mother, Zana (Adriana Matoshi). Although they both left Kosovo during the Balkan Civil War, when Alban begins a romance with a sensitive young woman, Anna, neither realize that unresolved injustices and dark memories of the past lie just beneath the surface.
The film marks Kosovo's fourth submission to the Oscars and was produced by Pristina-based 1244 Productions and Dutch company Asfalt...
- 9/13/2017
- by Nick Holdsworth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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