THE LAND WITHIN

By Fisnik MAXVILLE

ALVA FILM - as PROD

Historical - Completed 2022

Winter 2008. After years of exile, Remo returns to his childhood village in the Balkans. There, the exhumation of a mass grave from the war forces him to confront the secrets of his life and his family’s past.

Festivals
& Awards

Tallinn Black Nights IFF 2023
First Feature, Best Film
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Historical, First film, Drama
    • Countries
    • SWITZERLAND
    • Languages
    • ALBANIAN
    • Duration
    • 118 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Fisnik MAXVILLE
    • Writer(s)
    • Fisnik MAXVILLE
    • Producer(s)
    • Britta RINDELAUB (ALVA FILM), Thomas REICHLIN (ALVA FILM)
    • Synopsis
    • After years of exile, Remo, an orphan, returns to his childhood village in the Balkans. He must help his adoptive cousin Una with the exhumation of a mass grave that contains most of their family members buried there during the war. But the bodies reveal family secrets that will make Remo and Una question their past and their future. A film about the possibility of truth in a place that only knows survival.