The last guest to address the Kosovel Hall viewers on Monday, 16 November, was Kosovar director Isa Qosja who spoke about his heartrending drama Three Windows and a Hanging. It was already before the premiere that he made the cinema-goers laugh by relating some stereotypes about Kosovans, a nation of allegedly heaviest smokers and most hopeless optimists. To moderator Damijan Vinter the filmmaker revealed that even Kosovo needed a feministic film, and furthermore explained that the film, which explores the issue that has been completely tabooised for the past 15 years, had been warmly received in Kosovo. The director plans to distribute it across national schools and thus raise awareness about the controversial issue of patriarchate. The film has screened at various European festivals; a German cinema-goer was shocked to learn that the principal character was abused twice, not just once, while the audiences at the Thessaloniki Festival found comparisons between their rural situation and the Kosovar reality. Unconditional truthfulness is required to make a film dealing with such enlightening themes. “I believe an artist has to be honest about his work,” said Qosja, and went on to say that he had poured a large portion of his heart into the film. In concluding, he greeted the noticeably moved cinema-goers and admitted, “I’ve always felt that film doesn’t require additional explanations, but now I see that it’s good to talk about it.”

Written by Andraž Jež

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