The Marriage was selected as the Kosovo entry to compete for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2019. This is Blerta Zeqiri's first feature film which received worldwide high praise. The story is set 15 years after the Kosovo War. A couple is soon to get married but the groom's secret gay ex-lover comes back to town right before the wedding. Kosovo has been advocating for LGBT rights for a while and is also estabilishing laws against sexuality bias. The releasing of this film is another great example of the emphisis Kosovo is putting on human rights.

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Their wedding in only two weeks, and Anita and Bekim are adding the final touches to their big day. Despite no news of Anita's parents, declared missing since the 1999 Kosovar War, and with Bekim's controlling family, the couple seem to somehow manage with the preparations. But when Bekim's secret gay ex-lover, Nol, returns from abroad, unexpectedly, the situation becomes complicated, especially when Bekim realizes that Nol is still in love with him. Inevitably, the wedding banquet becomes loaded with tension when the unusual love triangle starts to unravel.


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The director expressed, the gay love in Kosovo is a modern version of Romeo and Juliet. Even though the LGBT community is protected by the law in Kosovo, there are still a lot of people being attacked, humiliated, and abused physically. Therefore, hiding their true identity is their way to survive, making many LGBT people eventually get into a heterosexual marriage.  

For 15 years, the bride has been waiting for her parents' news after they went missing during the war. Whenever there is a group of bodies shipped from Serbia, she has to go through the struggle all over again. This is the real-life story of many people in the Balkans, showing the sadness of war. The director feels deeply in this, "we finally taste the freedom that we did not have in our childhood after the war! That was when I have started noticing social exclusion and those people whose rights were taken away from them." 


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Director Blerta Zeqiri's was awarded at Sundance Film Festival for her short film The Return. Later on her film The Marriage won the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Special Jury and FIPRESCI Prizes. Her film was also selected as the Kosovo film to compete in Oscar Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2019. The chairman of the Kosovo film selection committee expressed this film touched on the topics that we are not so familiar with, it is pleasantly surprising there is such touching story in Kosovo. There are a lot of layers to the structure and the actors seamlessly acted out through all of them. The director skillfully guided audiences along the film. International media wrote this film was heartweaming and relevant to our times.


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Kosovo is following the world trend and promoting LGBT equality. The most obvious being the law against sexuality bias and LGBT committee the Kosovo government established in 2013. The politicians protested on the streets against homophobia and passed the same-sex marriage law back in 2014. The first LGBT pride parade took place in the capital of Kosovo, Pristina in 2016. The president Hashim Thaçi also joined in. 

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