“TWO LIVES IN TIGHT SOCKS,” by Besim Ugzmajli, is one of the sixteen documentaries in the running for the Grand Jury Prize at the 8th MENORCA DOC FEST/ Festival de Cinema i Fotografia Documental de Menorca.

The screening will take place on October 10 at the fabulous Mercadal Multifunctional Hall.

“TWO LIVES IN TIGHT SOCKS” premiered this summer at two prestigious film festivals: the Tirana International Film Festival in Albania and the Dokufest International Documentary and Short Film Festival in Kosovo. Both festivals are qualifying events for the EFA European Film Awards.

At TIFF, it also received a Critic Choice Award.

Besim Ugzmajli about TWO LIVES IN TIGHT SOCKS:

This film holds extraordinary significance for me and my wife, Rilindje.
It has been a long and difficult process, filled with many doubts about whether this story should even become a film.
Being caught in the midst of so many personal struggles while trying to turn those very struggles into cinema has been incredibly challenging for both of us.
We felt that this story needed to be shared with you, considering this as a rare and invaluable opportunity to express the pain that life itself inflicts in a country like Kosovo — a country still in transition.
The life of our son, by default, is bound to be shaped and hurt by the circumstances of a fragile state. In these difficult conditions, we couldn’t even leave Kosovo due to my wife’s health.
In Kosovo, a woman has to think long and hard before deciding to bring a child into this world.
It is this sense of absurdity that we have chosen to share with you through the medium of film — and the opportunity to do so would mean the world to us.

Besim Ugzmajli is a European filmmaker whose films are regularly featured at the world’s most prestigious film festivals.

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