THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD World Cinema

After years of bitterness and disputes over a tract of land, two Albanian families find themselves teetering on the brink of a full-blown feud. When a refusal to back down ends in murder, the children of one clan are forced into hiding in their home, lest their own blood be shed in retribution . Told from the perspective of Nik, a modern teenage boy caught up in an ancient conflict, the film reports rather than judges, bypassing any false or easy solutions. Following his acclaimed debut MARIA FULL OF GRACE, and working for the second time outside of his native language, Joshua Marston proves that he is truly a global filmmaker with a keen sense of narrative clarity. His background in journalism informs every frame with a sense of immediacy and truth, transforming this very specific cultural conflict into a universal story of how we experience the aggression of our fathers.