Sínelection: Punku
Sinema Transtopia, Berlin
Pristina, late 1990s: while 13-year-old Dua is navigating friendship, first love and the pressures of adolescence, war looms on the horizon.
Drawing on her own experience of growing up during the Kosovo War, Blerta Basholli lets the political reality around Dua emerge through seemingly ordinary moments: a teenage party interrupted by police, conversations at home, time spent with friends and her growing interest in judo. When an incident shakes her community, Dua begins to understand the violence around her in a new way, while her family faces the possibility of leaving Kosovo.
Dua places the intimate world of adolescence within the larger forces that shape it. What happens to friendship, desire and the possibility of a future when everyday life is lived under the shadow of war?
