IT, AL

2012

83 min

Finished

Made in Albania

Directing: Stefania Casini

Synopsis

21 years after the collapse of the Communist regime Albania experiences democracy with its many conflicts. The film discovers Albania with its contradictions, its people, its history, combining a road movie style with the documentary style. The film starts in Puglia with Vito going to Albania in search of his stolen bike. In Tirana Vito meets Bora who just came back from Barcelona where she graduated from architecture and his friend Rubin. They think it is a crazy idea to search for a stolen bike but they try to help him. Vito crosses their life like a shooting star, and in some way motivates each of them to take a personal journey. Through the emotional encounters of the 3 protagonists the film gives a real surprising picture of the country in balance between painful past and the future.