Visar Morina, the filmmaker behind the 2026 Sundance World Cinema Dramatic Competitors Jury Prize winner “Shame and Money” has signed with Cinetic for illustration.
The movie is eligible for the 2027 Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie class on the Academy Awards due to rule adjustments introduced this month. Below the brand new necessities, international locations or regional choice committees can nonetheless choose worldwide movies to submit for consideration, however movies also can qualify by successful a delegated high prize at considered one of six accredited festivals. That’s a hurdle that “Shame and Money” cleared due to the prize it received at Sundance.
“Shame and Money” follows Shaban and Hatixhe, hardworking dairy farmers elevating three daughters in rural Kosovo. They discover themselves uprooted from their residence due to a treacherous act and should face the tough financial realities of city dwelling the place they get help from well-to-do family. The movie was embraced by critics at Sundance and at the moment has a 100% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes . The Yellow Affair is dealing with world gross sales.
Morina, born in Kosovo, immigrated to Germany on the age of 15 as political stress mounted within the nation. His work explores immigrant expertise with a mix of social and magical realism. His first function, “Babai,” received the Greatest Director Award on the 2015 Karlovy Differ Worldwide Movie Pageant, and his earlier function, “Exile,” stars Oscar-nominee Sandra Hüller (“Anatomy of a Fall”) and premiered on the 2020 Sundance Movie Pageant. “Exile” went on to play the 2020 Berlinale, and was the 2021 Kosovar submission to the Academy Awards.
Cinetic’s administration apply represents administrators, writers, and producers, together with Richard Linklater, Todd Haynes, Killer Movies, David Gordon Inexperienced, Lana Wilson, Kevin MacDonald, Amalia Ulman, Alejandro Grisi, Babak Jalali, Asif Kapadia, Robert Kaplow, Gabriel Sherman, and James Pedersen.
Cinetic Media will signify Morina throughout all media.
