From 08.07.2011
Ballkan Pazar in Theater Cinemas in ITALY
From 14.04.2011
Ballkan Pazar in Imperial's Cinemas in Tirana, Albania
11.03.2011
Ballkan Pazar in Sofia International Film Festival
05.08.10
Start the film postproduction.
05.07.10
Ballkan Pazar in Karlovy Vivary Film Festival at work in progress.
The territory, origin, culture, traditions, identity, roots, and ancientness are reasons that have sparked many wars around the world in centuries, particularly in the Balkans where the borders have been regarded as ex littoral and displaced in accordance with the wishes of the strongest. Yet, how modern is this idea in the conditions of globalization and disappearance of borderlines? The paradox that this true story entailed was the main push for undertaking this movie. Besides skeletons, what could be sold at the Balkan BAZAAR, where the rich buys the bones of the poor to manipulate the history?
Why this story?
Because it entails real facts that seem to be surreal, it has atmosphere, contradictions, surprises, situations, characters, and love. In short, it has all the necessary elements for a black comedy film, so uncommon and attractive.
It often happens that conflicts in search of ones own roots, origins, history, identity, and country turn into wars. These ware always are hidden behind ideas, doctrines, ideologies, religions and each of them wave its own flag. Perhaps it is high time that we abandoned this rhetoric and made fun of ourselves by playing with the flags. Why not? The only flag which recognizes no borders and produces human life is the love flag. What can be the flag of love? The underpants?...
Would you sell the bones of your father or grandfather, if this was a millionaire business? JOLIE, French, and ORSOLA, Italian, her daughter, after the strange adventures of losing the bones of their father and grandfather, to a village in the South of ALBANIA, discover maybe the most bizarre BAZAAR of bones, with which the history of the BALKANS can be bought and sold. Why not profit, themselves, by selling the bones of their father and grandfather in exchange for true love?
Our story is based on actual events, happened in the South of Albania near the Greek border years ago, based in the old Balkan saying: the place in which the grave of a compatriot has endured the trials of time, is a place worth dying for.
Catherine Wilkening Jolie
Veronica Gentili Orsola
Visar Vishka Genti
Erand Sojli Miri
Edmond Budina Priest
Artan Islami Adi
Luca Lionello Maercello
Valentina Xhezo Priest's wife
Hajrie Rondo Adi's mother
Karafil Shena Dionisio
Laert Vasili Ilia
Nikolla Llambro Qazim
Vasil Cuklla Stavros
Viktor Caro Men moustached
Liliana Ristani Dioniso's wife
Marco Bitraku Nazif
Screenplay and direction Edmond Budina
Director of photography Daniele Baldacci
Sound & mix sound Giaccomo Avanza
Art director Arian Risvani
Costums Stela Laknori
Make up Nadia Ferrari
Music Admir Shkurtaj
Editing Marzia Mette
Producers Robert BUDINA, Sabina KODRA
Coo producers Nicola CIARDI,Ennio Di Domenicis
Line producer Amantia PEZA
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