
ANATEMA
ANATEMA / ANATHEMA
1. MOVIE
a) Movie title
Original: ANA(T)EMA English: ANATHEMA
b) Movie language
Original language: Albanian / English Sub-title: English
c) Movie genere
Feature film: Dramma in the waring time
a). Year of shooting: 2006.
b). Length: 108’ minutes
c). Date of first public projection in the original country: 30.11.2006
d). Festivals /in official selection/:
Kansas International Film Festival /2007/ - Kansas, USA
Mostra de Valencia – International Film Festival /2007/ - Valencia, Spain European Film Festival /2008/ - Paris, France
Hollywood Feature Film Festival /2008/ - Los Angeles, USA
Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tétouan/2008/ - Morocco
Festival de Film du Strasbourg /2008/ – Strasbourg, France – Special Jury Prize Alexandria International Film Festival /2008/ - Alexandria, Egypt
2. PRODUCTION
a) Name of film producer
Producer: Agim Sopi, Sali Limani
Executive producers: Kamuran Goranci, Arben Lami
b) Producing company
Name: AS Film Production – Prishtina
Address: Mirovica str. # 17 – 10 000 Prishtina – Kosovo
City: Prishtina Country: Kosovo – Europe
Phone: +383 38 245 557 Fax: +383 38 244 234 E-mail: asfilmproduction@gmail.com
c) World sale company
I. Name: Vanguard Cinema
Address: 7050 Village Drive, Suite A, Buena Park, CA 90621 Phone: 800.218.7888 Fax: 714.562.9022
II.
Name: ITN Distribution – Las Vegas
Address: 505 East Windmill Lane, Suite 1B-102
City: Las Vegas NV 89123 Country: USA
Phone: +702 882 3109 Fax: +702 696 1653 www.itndistribution.com
3. AUTHORS AND TECHNICIANS
a) Film director
Name: Agim Sopi
Place and date of birth: Prishtina – Kosovo (23.07.1956)
Adress: Mother Teresa str. # 21 – 10 000 Prishtina – Kosovo
Phone: +38344 110 548 Fax: +381 38 244 238 E-mail: agimsopi@yahoo.com
b) Author of the original subject: Agim Sopi
c) Script-writer: Agim Sopi
d) Composer: Mendi Mengjiqi
e) Director of photography: Afrim Spahiu
f) Set designer: Afrim Gora, Durim Neziri
g) Editor: Agron Vula
4. CAST
1. Performes : LUMNIE SOPI Characters: Ema
2. Performes: DOUG BARRON Characters: David
3. Performes: ÇUN LAJÇI Characters: Dani
4. Performes: BLERIM GJOCI Characters: Shpati
5. Performes: BLERTA SYLA Characters: Laura
6. Performes: ENVER PETROVCI Characters: Kol. Lilich
5. TECHNICAL FEATURES
Size for the screening movie: 35 mm 1:1,66 (24 images-second)
2. Sound: Dolby digital
6. SHORT SYNOPSIS
Kosovar journalist Ema Berisha, working with two American journalists, Laura and David Schwartz, report from war torn Kosova. When the war reaches the highest point, the American journalists are ordered to flee. They unsuccessfully try to persuade Emma to get out of Kosova, to leave with them. Emma is determined to stay. Upon returning to Prishtina, Emma finds the Serbian forces are ousting the population to refugee camps. Partly to punish her for her work as a journalist, the soldiers rape Emma. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl, which she names Ana. When the war is over, there is nobody to help Emma. From a very loved person during the war, she becomes an unloved person, abandoned and forgotten by everyone. All relatives look upon Ana as a misbegotten child and they try to persuade Emma to abandoned her. A year later, the American journalist David, returns to Kosova and they fight together to get back the anathema daughter of Emma’s.