‘Shame and Money’ Director on Sundance-Winning Drama About a Kosovo Family in Free Fall: ‘It’s a Look Into the Past and a Warning to the Future’
Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Visar Morina returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival — the scene of a previous triumph — with the biting social drama “Shame and Money,” which won the top prize in Park City earlier this year and is playing in the festival’s main competition. The director’s third feature wowed audiences at Sundance, where Variety’s chief film critic Guy Lodge praised the “stoic, slowly lacerating look at economic desperation and exploitation in contemporary Europe” as a “keenly observed, sharp-edged portrait of a Kosovo family divided by class.” Morina’s previous film, “Exile,” which also premiered in Park City, won the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2020.
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Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Visar Morina returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival — the scene of a previous triumph — with the biting social drama “Shame and Money,” which won the top prize in Park City earlier this year and is playing in the festival’s main competition. The director’s third feature wowed audiences at Sundance, where Variety’s chief film critic Guy Lodge praised the “stoic, slowly lacerating look at economic desperation and exploitation in contemporary Europe” as a “keenly observed, sharp-edged portrait of a Kosovo family divided by class.” Morina’s previous film, “Exile,” which also premiered in Park City, won the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2020. That film, about a Kosovan immigrant grappling with paranoia after a string of menacing events, was loosely inspired by the director’s own experience. Born in Kosovo, Morina emigrated with his family to Germany in the 1990s, before the war that would ultimately lead to the country’s independence.
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- Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Visar Morina returns to the Sarajevo Film Festival — the scene of a previous triumph — with the biting social drama “Shame and Money,” which won the top prize in Park City earlier this year and is playing in the festival’s main competition. The director’s third feature wowed audiences at Sundance, where Variety’s chief film critic Guy Lodge praised the “stoic, slowly lacerating look at economic desperation and exploitation in contemporary Europe” as a “keenly observed, sharp-edged portrait of a Kosovo family divided by class.” Morina’s previous film, “Exile,” which also premiered in Park City, won the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2020.
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‘Shame and Money’ Director on Sundance-Winning Drama About a Kosovo Family in Free Fall: ‘It’s a Look Into the Past and a Warning to the Future’
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