Laura Bispuri : 2015
Vergine giurata
The story of a woman who sacrifices her femininity for freedom, and then sacrifices her honour to go back to being a woman again. Hana is a girl that grows up in the Albanian mountains, where an archaic, sexist culture based on honour still reigns. This culture doesn't give women any freedom; fathers, brothers and husbands have a real power of life and death over daughters, sisters and wives. In order to escape her destiny of being a wife and servant, Hana calls on the old law of her land, the Kanun: she swears an oath of eternal virginity, takes the name Mark and becomes a man, thus obtaining the same rights as males, but by doing so she renounces her femininity and any form of love at the same time. This denial will become her prison. But a living force is bustling beneath her new clothes and this will mark the beginning of a journey that has been put off for a long time. After more than ten years spent in solitude in the mountains, Hana decides to change her life. Laura Bispuri's feature debut premiered in competition at Berlin International Film Festival 2015.
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