AMNESTY

Name of Film	Amnesty (2011)
Original Title	Amnistia
Director	Buyar Alimani
Country	Albania
Language	Albanian
Mins	83 mins
Format to be screened
Festival & Awards	Best Foreign Language Filmat the 84th Academy Awards
Producer	Tefta Bejko
Synopsis	The Albanian government has issued a law allowing prisoners to meet their married spouse in private once a month. Elsa then went to Tirana specific date to meet her husband jailed for unpaid rent. Sheptim went there also to meet his wife, imprisoned for forgery and forgery. A story of abandonment begins between these two solitary beings. (http://www.arizonafilms.net/amnistie.html)
Note on Director	The film ‘Amnesty’ by Albanian director Bouyar Alimani has premiered at the Berlinale.  Alimani has been living and working in Greece for the past twenty years. ‘Amnesty’ is his first film and also the first Albanian film in Berlinale’s history. The story is about the life conditions of the two leading parts and brings them together at the end in a sensitive way. Alimany studied at Tiranna’s School of Arts and always tried to work with Greek directors. As he puts it: “I have studied theater in Albania, but grew up artistically in Greece. And I am not being diplomatic. I have two home countries, honestly.” (http://eu.greekreporter.com/2011/02/15/albanian-director%E2%80%99s-amnesty-film-premiered-at-berlinale/)
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Trailer Link	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSGooM5dGIg
Sources	Wikipedia and IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1815586/ http://www.arizonafilms.net/amnistie.html