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Phantom Youth (Bota Jonë)

Luàna Bajrami

Kosovo, France

Director's Biography

Luàna Bajrami grew up in Kosovo and made her acting debut in France at the age of ten. Inspired by her dual, Franco-Kosovar culture, she travels from one country to the other, following the rhythm of her projects and collaborations with other filmmakers. She made a name for herself in 2019 with roles in Sébastien Marnier's School’s Out and Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire. A self-taught filmmaker, she wrote and shot her first feature film at the age of eighteen. The Hill where Lionesses Roar is about youth and highlights the little-known landscape of her homeland of Kosovo. The film had its premiere in the Directors' Fortnight at the Festival de Cannes in 2021. Phantom Youth is her second feature film.

2023
94
Albanian
No
Fiction
Screenings :
Fri 01 / 11:00 / Salle des Ministres
Sat 02 / 14:00 / Cinéma le Colisée
Fri 01 / 11:00 / Salle des Ministres
Sat 02 / 14:00 / Cinéma le Colisée

In the presence of the film crew

Kosovo, 2007. Zoé and Volta leave their remote village to enter Pristina University. Amidst social and political tensions, the two women discover a country in turmoil, a nation seeking its identity on the eve of independence and whose youth have been forgotten.

Director Luàna Bajrami

Producer Valbone Rahmani, Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky, Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Hervé Ruet

Screenwriter Luàna Bajrami

Cinematographer Hugo Paturel

Production Designer Luàna Bajrami

Editor Paul Frère, Julie Renault

Sound Pëllumb Ballata, Eric Rey, Xavier Thibault, Gilles Bénardeau

Colour Colour

Elsa Mala, Albina Krasniqi, Don Shala, Aurora Ferati, Gani Rrahmani, Uratë Shaban

Production Company Orëzanë Films, Ten Cinema, Quad Films

International Sales Company Gaumont

Pays

Kosovo, France

année

2023

durée

94

langue

Albanian